R. W. Clark Quotes

I think about it, and I realize there's been some version of a Batman or Spiderman or Superman franchise since I was a boy, since before I was a boy.

I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.

Everyone is against Harry (Truman) except the people.

I was very thrilled to witness the workby my ol' buddy Jim Widner whose expertise in the field of jazz education proved invaluable in putting this masterful CD (Yesterdays & Today) together.

You're not lost in a storm, Marilyn. You are the storm!

American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.

American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

I've tried to move on with my life and my career for the last two years and do my own thing, and 'American Idol' and FOX, they've just been making it really tough for me to do that.

For the past two years,the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

I need to set the record straight for myself.

The only person to look out for me is me. I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.

Oh, no, it can't be teardrops 'Cause a man ain't supposed to cry.

Innovation is only innovation when it's sustainable.

Show me a Professor of Education, especially a Professor of E-learning, who lectures, and I'll show you a hypocrite who doesn't read the research.

MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris.

We're never trying to manipulate and mess with... When you finish the movie, you hope you did a good job but you never know.

You put the movie out and then it's up to you guys to go oh that was good.

It's terrifying to show incomplete footage.

The audience rejects the movies when it feels a little bit more of the same.

It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without.

Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.

Shame can be self-indulgence too.

Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines.

To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.

I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.

Rome is everybody's memory.

Teach the student first, the music second and the piano third.

I don't believe in competition, ain't nobody else like me around

You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.

You're gonna know my name by the end of the night.

Things that I would say or would like to saw are just easier to sing about and put out there in music.

I like to see how people interact with each other and I draw from that. I'm inspired by that.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.

You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.

There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.

The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.

I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.

We see facts with our eyes; we see ideas with our minds; we see ideals with our souls. Whatever we see with our souls is real and permanent and cannot be destroyed.

Interesting little game we play with each other.

I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.

Never look back' is my philosophy.

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.

Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world.