J Mascis Quotes
I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
-
I had to work with a psychiatrist.
-
I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
-
What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
-
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
-
I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.
-
I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
-
But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
-
We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
-
I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
-
I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
-
What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
-
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
-
In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.
-
You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
-
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
-
The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
-
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
-
I remember the first time I heard a co-worker refer to himself as a foodie. It immediately irritated me. Was he implying that he appreciated food more than other people? That his love of eating was somehow more evolved than mine? Don't all people love the thing we can't live without?
-
I have a theory that is the only original things we ever do are mistakes. The only thing that we can really attribute to ourselves that is purely original are our screw-ups.
-
I don't give my advice unless it's asked for.
-
My goal in any show is to make people laugh. That's the No. 1 thing. Everything else pales in comparison to that.
-
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
-
I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes.
