R.L. Dunn Quotes

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.

It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.

Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.

I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.

I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.

Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.

It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.

The bungle tour is a bit up in the air due to the fact this at we are getting screwed by our overseas label.

Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.

I like relationships on TV between men and women, when they're not just flirtatious and sexual.

Cincinnati is perfect for me. I've met a lot of good people there who like to fish.

I'm a small-town guy, and moving to a huge city might be an adjustment.

At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

In my opinion I really haven't done anything yet. I still have a lot to prove. I just want to prove to myself that I can play at the highest level of baseball in the world every day.

It's always been family first for me. No matter how well my career goes, nobody here will ask anything of me. I'm just another Dunn to them.

So perfect — I’m right where I need to be!

If you can’t decide what to do, get on the road. You won’t find the answer. It will find you.

Im the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. Thats the way my mother raised me.

I'm a mum. Cooking is something I have to do. It's something I like to do.

I don't wear heels. I'm all about flats from Chanel and wedges. I love my Gucci wedge boots.

Generally speaking, you only put someone on paid leave if you're pretty certain that they might be terminated from the company once you do your investigation.

I think of the words of the prophet . . . : And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of Him, this is the testimony, last of all, that we give of Him: That He lives.

I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny

Atheism is easy in fair weather.

The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

I think that it's easy to target a heavy metal band for inciting violence or making kids turn to a cult than it is to actually look at real problems in the real world.

Just because I'd spent so many years coloring inside the lines, it wasn't fair for me to expect perfection. People make mistakes. Life isn't fair. People change.

Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.

I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.

When greater perils men inviron, Then women show a front of iron; And, gentle in their manner, they Do bold things in a quiet way.

Bungle is definitely a priority right now.

I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.

It's fun being on a TV show and not having to wear heels.

I have fun. I always have fun. I don't really get in a hurry about anything. I just try to go with the flow and have fun, and that's how I try to play baseball.

Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa, not often coupled with each other, but the two people that I turn to most.

Just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber, you go and do something like this... and totally redeem yourself!

Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.

When someone loves you, there's nothing they won't do for you. When they stop loving you, there's nothing they will.

It does not matter how many talents we have, what matters is how we use them.

Dear Sugar will save your soul. I belong to the Church of Sugar.

Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.

It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

Skinny jeans were only good if you had skinny genes.

All good poems are victories over something.