J.D. Young Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

I have a lot of supporters.

I don't really like doing interviews.

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

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.

Today’s enlightenment is tomorrows mistake

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

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

Persistence goes a lot farther than brains.

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

People live up to your expectations, not their potential.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The song [The White Trash Song] was not a put down of [ my country cousins ], but a celebration. I wrote that early on, as a teenager.

I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?

Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound.

51 Martin [guitar] sounded pretty good as new guitar. Martin has several levels of guitars now, and this one is pretty good.

I have somewhat [Taylor's or Gallagher's guitars], but I like the power of the Martins.

If I wasn't so lazy, or if I had a roadie, I'd have a line of guitars on stage. I'd have a lap steel and a nylon string up there, but who wants to keep up with all that?

I was born and grew up in the Deep South, and I must say it wasn't easy for me. I always marched to a drummer, I had different views about politics and religion and I had them relatively young.

I was known to spout off about [ politics and religion] sometimes, especially in my drinkin' days! It was pretty dangerous actually.

I did admire the comments and the music of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. And that didn't fly too well in the Deep South. It was not quite redneck enough.

I like the idea of having an old Gibson [guitar], but I don't have one. The Gibson has a different quality, but it's almost like you need both.

My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught.

I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy was just overwhelming to me as a little kid. It was the real deal.

I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They would humor me, and I'd make up thirty minute songs and drive them nuts.

I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00.

In medieval times, artists had patrons that supported them and this is a similar thing, ... We're basically saying, 'Wouldn't you like to be a part of this'

The end is here, and you don't want be here. You are the best in the world at something, and you know you are not going to be that great at anything else.

When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar.

I give NFL quarterbacks a lot of leeway for a couple of years.

I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today.

Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.

I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything.

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.

The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.

I think natural gas has been a big part of the solution if in fact we need to reduce man-generated carbon dioxide emissions.