Paul Kantner Quotes

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

Paul Kantner

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• I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Writer
  • Worked
  • Journalist

• In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Book
  • Bad

• I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere that's really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Great
  • Hilarious
  • Jacket

• If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Live
  • Trying

• The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • War
  • Community
  • Face

• There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Always
  • Fishing
  • Horizon

• Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Always
  • Suffering
  • Neurosis

• One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Inspiration
  • Hero
  • Flamingo

• Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Love

• I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Think
  • Me
  • Always

• I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Love
  • Simple
  • Poetry

• By thinking through the grilling process while still in the kitchen, you can easily gather all of the items that you might need and conveniently carry them to the outdoors area.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Thinking
  • Process
  • Kitchen

• My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • God
  • Faith
  • Door

• Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Soul
  • You
  • Something

• Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Dad

• Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • God
  • Men
  • Mind

• 'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Time
  • Great
  • Monster

• The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Business
  • Scheme
  • Monstrous

• To be, or not to be: what a question!

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Question
  • Be Or Not To Be

• I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'

  

  Jessie J

• It's hard not to want to become Ken Burns at times. I'm interested in being a Ken Burns who reaches that 17-year-old who goes to the multiplex just to see a good story well-told. And if there's history in it, all the better.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Good
  • History

• You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

  

  Paul Kantner