J.D. Young Quotes

I was such a heavy drinker I was going to die at age 37. Not to mention the drugs. I'm glad to be sober, I haven't missed a thing. A lot of people never get the chance to come back.

I didn't have the self-promotion instinct, and I just didn't care about it. I sort of had a "beat" attitude.

My favorite record I've ever done is Rock Salt and Nails. It was recorded in '68-'69 and released in '69. There's something about that record I really like.

One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument.

I'd rather work with guys that have time to live with you, and let it gel.

Music saved my life a few times because I could play the stuff rednecks loved. They thought I was great and they wondered why I didn't do that all the time.

No one can keep their word. Everyone's in hurry and jumping to the next opportunity. There's something missing.

If you really want something, you've got to keep going after it.

People live up to your expectations, not their potential.

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

Persistence goes a lot farther than brains.

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

We haven't figured out a way to get sensors that can discriminate between decoys and warheads. The technology doesn't exist yet.

Today’s enlightenment is tomorrows mistake

There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.

Because of the incredible reputation I have, people find me exciting to watch on film.

I don't really like doing interviews.

I have a lot of supporters.

I'm a comeback waiting to happen. No one deserves it more than I do.

I don't want to do any more movies where I look at it and go, 'Oh, God, gross.

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.

We would love to see walking groups more widely recommended by physicians, health trainers and nurses.

Anybody who cannot learn to hear by feeling will not go very far in church.

I don't like to talk about things until I'm on set shooting them because it doesn't feel real.

When you're not confident as a young woman in saying "no" or even saying "yes" necessarily, you don't know which one you're more afraid of in some way. That happens a lot.

The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians.

Save the children of the World from their acidic lifestyles and diets and their acidic parents who are feeding them.

Front end loading with appropriate resources provided time to reflect and produce needed changes and alignment around the C&Q approach.

Just accepting that vulnerability is part of the deal, I think, makes that part okay.

There's always something that happens where I go, 'Oh, that was so awkward!'

Right now in my middle years, I'm getting to enjoy a resurgence of my own creativity, which I'm fully embracing and enjoying.

The Oscar nomination is the best marketing you can get.

If something great comes off with the potential TV series, I will go straight to an investor this time and put my money in whatever they invest in.

My dad was very worried that I wasn't saving and didn't have a pension. I've never invested well.

I led a sheltered life. I didn't know how to book a flight.

In the Eighties, live work had to be very extravagant.

I don't see a future in music unless you are one of the 5pc of massive artists.

You have to be entrepreneurial and use your name.

I work and work and if I have a surplus I book a holiday.

I don't indulge in anything extravagant but I can't keep money in the bank.

I always wanted to be able to buy nice things, but the appeal of music was the escapism.

I just consider myself lucky that I've been a musician this long and not had to find another job.

What the people of the world want most and have always wanted is bread and peace.

Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.

You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.

Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.

The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.

You're as close to heaven as I'll ever be.

Bad news is just an excuse.

Love is a healer and I love you.