American Quotes

Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.

Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.

Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform.

I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.

I did have a lucky thing going on there in my throat.

I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.

After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

Reading is important.

Must I tell the story of my life again?

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

Ideas control the world.

I am a poor hater.