Jon Pardi Quotes

I had a drummer I really wanted to move to Nashville with me, and he's like, 'Naw, I can't go, man.' He never could pull the trigger. It's a big move. You just gotta be diehard - you gotta give it your all, you know.

Jon Pardi

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• I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Different
  • Real
  • Friends

• The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Modern
  • System
  • Absurdity

• Dave Chappelle is one of my comedic inspirations. His perspective is crazy, and he's super sharp.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Crazy
  • Perspective
  • Sharp

• I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Like
  • Need
  • Hours

• We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Impossible
  • Environmental

• The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Trying
  • Community

• I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Movie
  • Play
  • Taken

• We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

  

  Barry White
  • Said
  • Company
  • Ready

• You should feel good about yourself because of your accomplishments. Not because somebody yelled at you to feel good about yourself.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Feel Good

• To me, spirituality means 'no matter what.' One stays on the path, one commits to love, one does ones work; one follows one's dream; one shares, tries not to judge, no matter what.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Judge

• Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Funny
  • Best
  • Memories

• Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Democracy
  • Worship

• In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Great
  • Men
  • Power

• The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Voice
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons 'The work was free. Keep it so.'

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Work
  • Free

• A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

  

  Jack Vance

• My music is not lovely.

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Music

• Cinema is a world of imagination.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • World
  • Imagination

• The victor belongs to the spoils.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Success
  • Victor
  • Spoils

• I don't think my approach to acting is all necessarily in service of the character. I think, selfishly, I've put it in service of myself, my perspective on the world and helping my life.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Life
  • World
  • Character

• We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.

  

  Jon Ronson
  • Relationship
  • Understanding
  • Weird

• Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in war, and their condition not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one another, and they live as it were in the precincts of battle continually.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Opinion
  • Defend
  • Governed

• I had a drummer I really wanted to move to Nashville with me, and he's like, 'Naw, I can't go, man.' He never could pull the trigger. It's a big move. You just gotta be diehard - you gotta give it your all, you know.

  

  Jon Pardi