J.R. Stewart Quotes

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.

If you are going to make something forever, you should be yourself.

I never thought I'd say this, but I miss voter fraud.

My dad has a weird hobby; he collects empty bottles... which sounds so much better than "alcoholic."

Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.

You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you're like that.

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.

Mr. Hitchcock did not say actors are cattle. He said they should be treated like cattle.

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

From the five years, 1968-73, if you were an F1 driver at that time, there was a very likely chance that you would have died.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.

Come all ye that pass by, and see if there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow.

I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.

There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.

I want a cheeseburger so badly, but I have to be a vampire in a few weeks.

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.

I don't pretend to be perfect. I want people to see me as I am.

People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.

Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.

People talk about sexual assault like it's a bad habit that men have.

My father is schizophrenia, but he's good people.

They always throw around this term 'the liberal elite.' And I kept thinking to myself about the Christian right. What's more elite than believing that only you will go to heaven?

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence.

It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.

Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination.

If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language

In the eyes of God all men, indeed all creatures, may be equal: but the divine law of the individual is to maintain and to defend his individuality.

I don't need other people. I don't need help. I can take care of me.

I'm always on the lookout for those good, simple solutions to everyday problems.

A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

It was early detection that saved my voice - and I imagine, my life.

Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.

Every picture tells a story, don't it?

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.

All the things I love is what my business is all about.

The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.

It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph; the sigh of despair. Nothing lasts forever - not even this.

I think it's ridiculous that you need to look a certain way to be conventionally pretty.

I have no idea what I’m doing, and that’s kind of how I love it.

I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.