Bert Jansch Quotes

#1. Led Zeppelin created their music from a diet of Bert Jansch, Memphis Minnie, John Fahey, Billy Fury, Phil Spector, Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, Moby Grape, Manitas De Plata and Om Kalsoum. Those who came afterwards were content with a diet of Led Zeppelin, which is not the same thing at all.

David Hepworth

#2. All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people. But I didn't start out thinking that I would be a guitar player. In the beginning, I played the guitar so I could sing. I mainly concentrated on my voice.

James Vincent McMorrow

#3. I think I come under the singer/songwriter badge. I've always written songs right from the very beginning. Because of my style of playing people tend of me more of a guitar player than a singer sometimes.

Bert Jansch

#4. Especially on rainy nights like this, they would congregate under the bridge, all the boys from nowhere, the boys who lived nowhere, who had nowhere else to go.

Robert Dunbar

#5. Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.

Noreena Hertz

#6. There is this cliche of, "Oh, your professional life is fine, but your romantic life isn't." But, that's also really true of me and all my friends. You don't want to not do something that's relatable simply because you're worried that it might be cliche.

Mindy Kaling

#7. I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

Alexander Hamilton

#8. Make it easier to do things that increase your wellbeing before you have to make a choice because a lot of our choices, though they seem small in the moment, have a big effect.

Tom Rath

#9. It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.

Melody Beattie

#10. Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You have to be willing to throw it all away.

John Belushi

#11. There is a steady check in an old civilisation upon the fertility of the abler classes: the improvident and unambitious are those who chiefly keep up the breed. So the race gradually deteriorates, becoming in each successive generation less fit for a high civilisation.

Francis Galton

#12. Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out.

Bert Jansch

#13. It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

George Bernard Shaw

#14. Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical.

Mark Driscoll

#15. My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

Georges Rouault

#16. I think you're certainly going to see much closer racing. But, no, these are very good teams in the IRL. I just can't stress how competitive they all are and how close it's going to be.

Dan Wheldon

#17. You think so,hmm? It's on, then. Verbal pistols at dawn.

Lia Habel

#18. The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.

Harriet Lerner

#19. I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

Sigmund Freud