Robert Crumb Quotes

I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there's some connection between visual images and music.

Robert Crumb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 30, 1943

Topics

MusicCuriosityConnectionLookSee

When I started secondary school, it was assumed that the girls would do domestic science and the boys would do science, and I wasn't too happy with that.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

ScienceSchoolHappyStartedWould

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

Jello Biafra

DieWillDeadPunkOnlyMass

I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.

Andre Leon Talley

FeelSituationComfortableAlways

I feel most alive, most electric with faith, breath, and courage, when I think of God as a current that runs through all that is. Not by will or by choice. Not as a benediction but because there are laws even God must obey.

Tracy K. Smith

GodFaithCourageThinkFeelChoice

Oh yeah, I'm an Essex boy and proud of it.

Ross Kemp

ProudBoyOhYeahOh Yeah

For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.

Mary Hunter Austin

GodWorldAirOne ThingAnywhere

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Miguel de Cervantes

HumorHimOutOwnHoldMeans

When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you can tackle the problem with a fresh new insight. Einstein liked to play the violin to relax. Every physicist likes to have a past time. Mine is ice skating.

Michio Kaku

TimePastRelaxProblemYouPlay

I am an agnostic, even though I respect and am interested in all religions. If there's something I believe in, it's a mysterious energy; the one that fills the oceans during tides, the one that unites nature and beings.

Monica Bellucci

NatureRespectI AmBelieveEnergy

The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.

Joseph Altuzarra

BestFashionStartExerciseYouOwn

The way 'Coming Home' uses music in general is incredible, but the final song that really kind of crescendos all of the emotion that the whole movie has kind of been building to is this song called 'Once I Was' by Tim Buckley.

Jonathan Levine

HomeMusicSongBuildingKindWay

You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.'

Jonathan Cain

MusicHappyForwardYouDownKnow

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