Perry Farrell Quotes

I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets.

Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

  

  Early Wynn
  • More
  • Losing
  • Salesman

• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Never

• We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Why
  • Always
  • Mad

• I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Friend
  • Radio
  • Plays

• I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • World
  • Work
  • Why

• What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Game
  • Team

• Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.

  

  Jack Keane
  • World
  • Friends
  • American

• Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Done
  • Opportunity
  • Kind

• I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Support

• The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Perception
  • Act
  • Mental

• I was not a great bartender, but I did OK. I wasn't great at being efficient behind the bar, but I was pretty great at talking to people. I was a pretty good waiter. It was painstaking to get me to care about the clientele of some of these places I was working at.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Cool
  • Young
  • Taught

• It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Scary
  • Because
  • Rehearsing

• I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Jazz

• I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Actors
  • Directors
  • Rehearsing

• The name ‘London Banker’ had especially a charmed value. He was supposed to represent, and often did represent, a certain union of pecuniary sagacity and educated refinement which was scarcely to be found in any other part of society.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Society
  • Value

• I fall in love too terribly hardFor love to ever last.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Fall

• I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figuratives or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.

  

  Yves Klein

• Listening to the tracks, you can hear that I don't mess around with real intricate runs and stuff like that, basically because it isn't necessary. When you start doing that sort of thing with heavy metal music, I think it can start to detract from everything else that's going on. If I started going off in a tangent, instead of having a nice solid underlying base that K.K. and Glenn can build on, the whole thing would probably lose its strength...

  

  Ian Hill Judas Priest
  • Stuff
  • Hear
  • Mess

• I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

  

  Rumi
  • Silent
  • Mouth
  • Closed

• You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Climb

• The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Victory
  • First
  • Conquer

• I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets.

  

  Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction