Robert Crumb Quotes

I do covers for CDs and LPs of music that I like, reissues of old-time music, and then I'm inspired to make some kind of drawing based on this love of the music. I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.

Robert Crumb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

John Lydon

PoliticsChaosSolutionPovertyYou

You know you're getting older when - well, first off, when you read almost any story that begins 'You know you're getting older when.' But you also know it when you not only never heard of the musical guest on a given 'Saturday Night Live' but never heard of the host, either.

Tom Shales

LiveGetting OlderNightStoryYou

I like to write at home a lot.

Rodney Atkins

HomeWriteLikeLot

I can play really terrible human beings, and I seem to have a quality that people can, if not necessarily forgive me those sins, at least cut me some slack.

Ron Eldard

QualityPeopleMeI CanPlayHuman

I'm always looking over my shoulder, needing to stay ahead of the game.

Mickey Drexler

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Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.

Mike Crapo

HistoryIdentityPrideTyrannyTake

On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors - mainly because they occupy a smaller amount of physical space than those who penned them. Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer himself has turned into a handful of dust.

Joseph Brodsky

SpaceLongWorstDustSitWhole

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

Corey Haim

LearningHabitThoughtsMovingBook

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Clint Eastwood

ChildrenMeSocietyInnocentNeed

Louis C. K. is one of my all time favorite standup comedians.

Aubrey Plaza

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Ebay's success as a company depends on the success of the community of sellers.

Pierre Omidyar

SuccessCommunityCompanyDepends

In an age that is sometimes nowadays frightening or confusing, we feel reassured by the almost parental-like authority of experts who tell us so clearly what it is we can and cannot do.

Noreena Hertz

AgeFeelSometimesAuthorityClearly

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