Danko Quotes

#1. You know my last name, but I didn't catch yours." "Danko," she said. Then, anticipating his next question: "My dad is from Slovakia." "That's near Kansas, right?

Nicholas Sparks

#2. Minky, the littlest cat, look as if she stepped in snow when she was a kitten and the snow never melted. She is all black except for her white paws and the spots on her head and tail where the snow didn't melt either.

Anne Michaels

#3. I'm really interested in making movies that people see: I've made a lot of independent films and it's really depressing when no one sees them.

Elizabeth Banks

#4. My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project.

Rick Danko

#5. The pressures, I don't really like to think about the pressures, I like to solve them, you know what I mean. I could sit here and complain about pressures but nobody wants to hear about pressures.

Rick Danko

#6. I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.

Rick Danko

#7. Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Rick Danko

#8. Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

Rick Danko

#9. But my point is, homosexual is genetic. 'Gay' is a choice. 'Gay' is the admitting to yourself that you are not only homosexual, but you embrace it. You find joy in it. You're thankful for it!

B.G. Thomas

#10. God don't like complaints.

Rick Danko

#11. They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.

Ann Richards

#12. I am using soybean based ink, which is recyclable.

Rick Danko

#13. As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

Rick Danko

#14. He was a 'how' thinker, not an 'if' thinker.

Rick Danko

#15. Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.

Rick Danko

#16. Your favorite occupation? Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner.

Christopher Hitchens

#17. I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.

Rick Danko

#18. When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.

Rick Danko

#19. I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

Rick Danko

#20. I started working with Bob in 1965. We did go through a lot of changes from 65 to 74, a lot of changes. By 1974, everything had straightened itself out.

Rick Danko

#21. Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns.

Rick Danko

#22. The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well.

Rick Danko

#23. I suppose the spiritual trance is harder to break than the religious one because the delusion is more difficult to distinguish. You have a quasi-cloud of ideas that include wonderful concepts of openness and altruism without the blatant anthropomorphism of religion.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#24. By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world ... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?

Rick Danko

#25. When I was younger, I had big visions of changing the world.

Rick Danko

#26. A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

Will Rogers

#27. The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

Alfred E. Smith

#28. You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

Rick Danko

#29. God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

Orson Scott Card

#30. I can't do what you can do: I can't slip inside my shell and wait for things to pass.

Haruki Murakami

#31. When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!

Rick Danko

#32. The Band was always famous for its retirements; we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.

Rick Danko

#33. If you grew up in the 60's or 70's, and didn't do drugs I don't trust you.

Danny Danko

#34. I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.

Rick Danko

#35. Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.

Rick Danko

#36. The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#37. I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.

William Friedkin

#38. When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.

Rick Danko

#39. After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.

Rick Danko

#40. You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground.

Rick Danko

#41. I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.

Rick Danko