J Mascis Quotes

Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.

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• They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Life
  • True
  • Sleep

• When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mom
  • Go
  • Grapes

• I like walking in Golden Gate Park.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Walking
  • Golden
  • Gate

• You mustn't upstage the bride.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • You
  • Bride

• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Society
  • Faith

• I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Positive
  • Depression

• People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olympic gold medal.' And I think, 'Yeah, but how come I feel so unsatisfied and under pressure all over again?'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • World
  • Gold

• In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

  

  Kanye West
  • Paris
  • Possible
  • Land

• It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Mistakes

• I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Beautiful
  • Inspired
  • Movies

• I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Career
  • Politics
  • Strength

• I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • Different
  • Real

• I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Leadership
  • Rockefeller Plaza

• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Hand

• You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • World
  • Real
  • Best

• People trash talk me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Talk

• My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Birthday

• You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• My favorite Duke player ever is Steve Wojciechowski. He called me one day congratulating me on my success thus far, and I was like,'I appreciate it, but man, please don't congratulate me. I know when you guys start the season, you're not just trying to be 10-10 or ACC champions, you're trying to win it all.'

  

  Mike Posner
  • Trying
  • Success
  • Player

• I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.

  

  Donald McCaig
  • Good

• 'The morning after I die. And the first 12 copies go to the Inland Revenue'

  

  Bernie Ecclestone
  • Die
  • Morning

• For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Age

• I relate to Nora's transformation in Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House,' and I also relate to both sisters' journeys in John Madden's film 'Proof.'

  

  Autumn Reeser
  • House
  • Transformation

• Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.

  

  J Mascis
  • Different
  • Everything
  • New