C.A.Keith Quotes

Just to be able to release an album back in the day when I came out was very gratifying. Most people were not given the opportunity.

I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!

I often yearn to regress into a state that's slightly more atavistic than my decades of conditioning generally allow, but it's difficult to let go of those reigns.

Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.

I'm usually the yes guy, and I had to turn into a no guy.

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.

I've been to two concerts in the last 10 years.Bob Seger and the Eagles.

I was taught that pain is bad.

Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us.

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.

Grains are essentially sugar with enough opioids to make them addictive.

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked

I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.

Songwriting's a weird game.

George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me.

I think I speak for the guy who is just s a regular guy who says yo I don't wanna go to an expensive restaurant.

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people

I think my brain is much more intelligent than I am...so I tend to trust it.

The only new technology that interests me is when it sort of throws me back soundwise. And I can think, "Wow, that means I can go onstage and sound like Scotty Moore now and again!"

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.

Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

When a 140 pounder that moves up fights a 140 pounder moved up and they move up it's a catch weight.

I'm not sayin I'm a pothead, cause I'm not. I'm just sayin that I smoke a lot.

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.

I'm in love with boxing. It fell into my lap and I have been in love with it ever since.

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

Humans can be noble. The question is: Will we put forth what is necessary?

When we smile, the world smiles with us: each experience of joy is an experience of joy for all people and a victory for human kind.

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals.

The most important question any human being will ever face: 'Who do you say that Jesus is?'

My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.

Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.

One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.