J.D. Young Quotes

I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.

I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour during the day. I don't have any superstitious rituals or anything like that.

As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.

I would love to play Bobby in COMPANY. Also, I would love to play George in SUNDAY.

Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its public, community-gathering, world-historical significance.

Cats may sense early on that you don't like paw prints on your butter, but they will jump onto any surface in the home as long as no one sees it happen.

Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

A poem is like a score for the human voice.

And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.

A door jumps out from shadows, then jumps away. This is what I've come to find: the back door, unlatched. Tooled by insular wind, it slams and slams without meaning to and without meaning.

A beguiling lady doesn't take after the swarm. She is herself.

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.

I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.

I was a very wanting child.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

Van Ritzen is one of the funniest humans I've ever met. Read her book, laugh, lather, rinse, repeat.

A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what is appropriate.

The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away the layers of unreality. . . eventually only the core remains.

When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them.

I think the team will think this was an O.K. year. Some guys had career years, but the reality is that we didn't get it done at the end of the day.

All poetry is political, to some degree.

If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.

I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out of what you're doing.

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.

Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

I try not to look back. I'm looking forward. I'm worried more about what I'm going to do next week than I am what I did last week. There are too many things to do. Looking back is for everybody else.

Keep on rockin' in the free world.

Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.

When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.

Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.

Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.

Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned.

Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.

It's only a dream Just a memory without anywhere to stay

You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.

I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.

I like it if people enjoy what I'm doing, but if they don't, I also like it. I sometimes really like aggravating people with what I do. I think it's good for them.

As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.

The king is gone but he's not forgotten

I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.

There's two kinds of love, one is wrong and one is right.

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

I've seen the needle and the damage done.