Dean Ween Quotes

#1. The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

Dean Ween

#2. If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

Dean Ween

#3. Don't sell yourself short. You may never have proof of your importance, but you are more important than you think.

Robert Fulghum

#4. I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.

Dean Ween

#5. But silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say
to them silence is simple and easy ...

Maxim Gorky

#6. When you make a great record, it's around forever.

Dean Ween

#7. Never give advice unless you have walked the walk, because anybody can talk the talk.

Valencia Mackie

#8. My brother is a policeman; my sister's an English teacher. When I hear what they make versus what I make, it's ridiculous.

Robert Sean Leonard

#9. How am I supposed to believe you when you're obviously carrying a fake monogram Gucci Bag?

Madi Brown

#10. When we are all mind, things can get rigid. When we are all heart, things can get chaotic. Both lead to stress. But when they work together, the heart leading through empathy, the mind guiding us with focus and attention, we become a harmonious human being.

Arianna Huffington

#11. When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.

Dean Ween

#12. I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

Dean Ween

#13. I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool ...

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

#14. I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

David Hockney

#15. It was, to reiterate, to stress, to accentuate the point, to leave no doubt, hot.

J. Maarten Troost

#16. Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

George MacDonald

#17. We don't know what we're doing. We don't have a plan. We don't sit down and calculate it.

Dean Ween

#18. I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

Dean Ween

#19. On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.

Dean Ween

#20. If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.

Dean Ween

#21. We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork.

Harold Nicholas

#22. Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

#23. The unconscious psyche believes in life after death

Carl Jung

#24. It's quantity, not quality.

Dean Ween