J.D. Young Quotes

He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

We can heal ourselves by changing the environment inside our bodies. Potentially harmful invaders, then, will have nowhere to grow and will become harmless.

And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.

I've found that the only way to make theatre that gets the audience thinking is when I feel uncomfortable making it.

How can you build a relationship when you're just sending out beats? Most people will come in and play their beats, but I like to make mine on the spot.

Fat, Is saving our lives.

We have to find out the technique by which the spirit whispers to our hearts. We have to learn to hear it and to understand it and to know when we have it, and that sometimes takes a long time.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.

This is loving your neighbour as ourselves; if he needs help, help him; and if he wants salvation and it is necessary to spill his blood on the earth in order that he may be saved, spill it.

The best way to get acid out of your body is to wash it out. The best way to wash it out is to provide plenty of water to do the job

I can promise you that the Spirit is a lot more anxious to help you than you are to be helped.

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.

I repeat it until it works. It is important to record, otherwise you lose ideas. That's why I never stay away from the studio, I always [have] something to ask.

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy.

An album is a project with which you have to hit hard.

If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

If anything matters, then everything matters.

The purpose firm is equal to the deed

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done

This is where the guys who copy me are planted: I do not use auto-tune, I sing. That's my advice!

This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.

Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.

The thing about my music is, there really is no point.

How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me - namely that Adam is our Father and God-.

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father

Paper is more patient than man.

most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us.

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

I needed to see you. And touch you. And just... know

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.

Affliction is a good man's shining time.

Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.

I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon.

All really interesting girls invent themselves.