J.D. Young Quotes

When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.

Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.

What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?

Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.

A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise

They only babble who practise not reflection

On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

There buds the promise of celestial worth.

Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.

Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.

We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too.

Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

We worship a mysterious not an anthropomorphic God.

When we run ahead of God, we run into trouble.

The closer I get to God, the blacker the little sins appear

I must look past my capabilities and see God's possibilities

The thorn keeps us from over-inflating

Faith is never a matter of can or cannot, but rather, will or will not

Frenzied activity is no gauge of spirituality

The Gospel net never breaks; whosoever will may come

There are no air conditioners in Hell

You can't win with sin.

There's a difference to being humble and being humbled

And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.

People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.

I'm into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them.

We live in a litigious society, and that's the way it is. Better safe than sorry.

Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.

I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.

The live concerts are still one of the two greatest joys of my life.

I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.

The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

The travel is a lot uglier than it once was with TSA and the deregulation of the airline services. These planes are getting smaller for my 6" 2' frame.

It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.

I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.

I definitely worked really hard to evoke Frankie Valli, but not do a strict imitation, because I feel that a strict imitation is not as compelling to watch.

I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway role to get to then do it on screen.

I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.

I knew that I wanted to meet girls, so I joined a fraternity, and I did yoga.

I really, really love new work, and that's why, you know, I produced a concert series supporting new musicals and stuff like that. I hope to do more things like that.

AMAZING GRACE is about the man who wrote "Amazing Grace," John Newton. It's a really great show - I have been workshopping it for a while now, actually.

My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson... and Placido Domingo.

I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the same thing all the time.

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.