W.D. Frank Quotes

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it is.

I'm just a guy that sings songs because that's what he likes to do, I guess.

I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who do this with sheet music.

I don't associate much with anybody. I'm not big on all the teachings and groups and being a part of something, I guess.

I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs.

I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.

I didn't have any intention of playing music for a living or anything like that. I was just not doing well in my head or whatever you call it and drinking too much.

I really enjoy playing music. I feel like it's something to try to give to people.

I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.

For a while, it was something to try to push at people, playing old murder ballads and being upset about everything I was seeing around me. But now I feel a lot more at peace with it.

I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy.

I feel like there's the people's music, and there's corporate music.

Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.

Because I have something to say doesn't mean everyone has to take it too seriously or get too upset that it rubs them the wrong way.

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.

Essentially any history we have is just a history of aristocrats. We don't have any history of people.

The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.

Working in factories and things like that, it just puts a little hair on your chest.

Some people are good cooks and some people are good... I don't see why you have to do all of that.

Fate never knows when comedy ends and tragedy begins.

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.

To be sure, President Clinton reached an accord called "The Agreement" in 1994 that purports to address some of President Reagan's concerns.

Having worked for him in the nuclear weapons policy business, I can tell you that President Reagan was committed to assuring the effectiveness of our nuclear deterrent.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

Everybody's an artist. Unfortunately we don't treat them as such.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.

It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.

There are places that are so designed they're unlivable.

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.

I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical.

Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. "The client made me do this." "The city made me do this." "Oh, the budget." I don't believe that anymore.

With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.

People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.

The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work.

Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.

I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.