Dierks Bentley Quotes
Where I'm at in my relationship with my wife or my family and life in general, I feel like it all comes out in the music. Hopefully, it's always there, but in an ambiguous and abstract way and not real straightforward.
Quotes to Explore
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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If I could give one tip for people - it's not an exercise or nutrition regimen. It's to walk your talk and believe in yourself, because at the end of the day, the dumbbell and diet don't get you in shape. It's your accountability to your word.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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I always write about the things that haunt me, the questions I have.
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There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.
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I always made up my own acts; built them out of my knowledge and observation of real life. I'd had wonderful opportunities to study people; and every time I went out on the stage I tried to show the audience some bit of true human nature.
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Where I'm at in my relationship with my wife or my family and life in general, I feel like it all comes out in the music. Hopefully, it's always there, but in an ambiguous and abstract way and not real straightforward.
