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Roger McGuinn Quotes

I don't want to be an oldies act, kind of dragging around on the road just for the money.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 13, 1942

Topics

Money Road Want Kind Act Just

I'm one of those workaholics, the kind of guy who may drop with a cardiac arrest around 55.

Kind Guy May Drop Who Arrest

I've always kept a journal and brought storytelling into my teaching.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

Journal Storytelling Always Teaching

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.

Work Music Fun Listen Hearing Get

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Justice Mistake Think Virtue Human

I had this one dear friend in college who was a chain smoker. His smoking habits led him to major health problems. That's the time I remember telling him to let go. And after a point, he did listen to me and gave up smoking.

Rithvik Dhanjani

Friend Health Time College Me Go

My first job in TV was hosting this young teen magazine show, and all these high school teenagers showed up from all over Sacramento, California, and they chose four of us to host the show, two boys and two girls. And of the two girls, I was kind of the perky smart one and the other girl was the pretty one.

Girl Job School Smart Teen Young

My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.

Work School Computers Programming

That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people.

Beautiful I Am Poetry People Fashion

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

Football People Enjoy Paid Knocked

My existence is fuller of other people's experiences than my own. If they cut open my brain, these are what I would retain most.

People Brain My Own Open Existence

Astaire was ballroom, basically, and Gene Kelly had such athleticism - that's always what I responded to and what just blew my head open when I watched Gene Kelly's numbers. But, Fred Astaire was just so incredibly inventive and so, so smooth - so smooth.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Numbers Always Open Head Smooth

I'm worried about economic growth in the United States. And the creation of jobs, output, and employment. And if you tax people who work, you're going to get less people working. And what the carbon tax would do is remove the tax from people who work and put it on a product in the ground.

Work Growth People You Tax Creation

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