Jason Isbell Quotes

Democracy can tie your hands in a rock 'n' roll band, you know? It can be a great thing, but if you've got a certain amount of vision and you write a lot of songs, it's sometimes better to have your own band and make your own decisions.

Jason Isbell

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VisionGreatDemocracyBetterHands

The beehives from the '60s were gorgeous. The big hair from the '80s wasn't.

Maye Musk

HairBigGorgeousBig HairWere

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.

John Irving

LanguageFindingKnowMatterGoing

But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money - a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that's the portion that, even with this book, has not been mentioned to this day.

Sibel Edmonds

MoneyDayPeopleBookConnections

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Christoph Martin Wieland

FateBitterCompulsion

We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.

Branford Marsalis

StupidThinkLongYouPlayStage

The bigger the bet, the better I played.

Bobby Riggs

BetterBiggerBetPlayed

I didn't like how my NBA career ended because I wanted to go out on my own terms. But nobody tried to believe in me, that I could go back and play. I can still play at 39.

Tim Hardaway

MeBelieveBackCareerI CanPlay

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.

Norman Lamm

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Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

Norah Jones

WritingSongFeelYouWrongNobody

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

James Madison

TogetherPastReligionGovernment

A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.

Freddy Adu

GreatMyselfPeopleUpBeenJust

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

Evelyn Waugh

CuriousPromisesParadiseWillTaste

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