American Quotes

I feel like the original 'Mad Max' created such a vivid world, that to go back and re-imagine it and kind of replay in that sandbox sounds like fun to me.

Life changes so quickly. feeling grateful to be around such wonderful people to strengthen and grow with.

Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free.

Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.

I don't think you can replaces great themes. But I think people do want to hear fresh arrangements of them. They don't want to hear them played the same way all the time.

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

Damn everything but the circus.

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.

People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.

I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason.

I just felt like there was a world of cartoon voices that had to be discovered by me.

He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it.

Air power is like poker. A second-best hand is like none at all - it will cost you dough and win you nothing.

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.