Benmont Tench Quotes
The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
-
For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
-
I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
-
I always do my interviews face to face.
-
In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
-
Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
-
I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
-
I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
-
If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
-
To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
-
When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
-
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
-
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
-
I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
-
I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.
-
I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.
-
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
-
Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
-
We had no money. My family was in Southie; I was in affluent Brookline. I don't know if it's my personality or the circumstance, but it all kind of led to this feeling of being an observer on the outside.
-
I saw him show up a few times, I'll say that. He has a way of doing that.
-
Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
-
I am partial to a cartwheel or two. It's the way to go; I'll be doing them in my 50s, hopefully.
-
If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
-
The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.
