Alex Chilton Quotes
I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.
Quotes to Explore
-
I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
-
I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
-
I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
-
Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
-
I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
-
I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
-
Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far too aggressive in attacking our way of life. Administrator McCarthy should be apologizing to Missourians. EPA aggression has reached an all-time high, and now it must be stopped.
-
Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
-
My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.
-
I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
-
Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.
-
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
-
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
-
I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
-
I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
-
Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
-
Life is one long jubilee.
-
It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
-
There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
-
I wouldn't change being married. It was good for me, and I was happy for a period of time, and I learned a lot about myself.
-
He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.
-
I just essentially stayed at home for three years and just learned to play as many instruments as I could and listened to as many singers as I could. Like, when I got to about 19/20, I started listening to singers. I normally just listened to bands. Now I listen to a lot of old singers, not a lot of new stuff.
-
I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.
