Desmond Dekker Quotes

#1. Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.

Mike Oldfield

#2. You can get it if you really want

Desmond Dekker

#3. The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

Desmond Dekker

#4. I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear.

Desmond Dekker

#5. Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.

Kat Dennings

#6. And I was really saying that no matter how bad things are there is always a calm after a storm, so don't give up on things.

Desmond Dekker

#7. Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.

Desmond Dekker

#8. I did see, however, what the Russian church had lost in its first decade of "freedom." Under communism, the church had found a way to survive and often thrive. Scripture and holy song was its lifeblood.

Nik Ripken

#9. So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

Desmond Dekker

#10. The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

Pierre Salinger

#11. I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

Bryan Ferry

#12. ... and it occured to me then and forever afterwards, that films, theatre books and poems were just a fraud. It's only music that doesn't deceive, it doesn't pretend to be anything else except what it is. Music.

Lars Saabye Christensen

#13. What, in all the world, could I do to earn my living and still live as myself, as I knew myself to be. Temporary masks, I knew, had their place; everyone was wearing them, they were the human rage; but not masks cemented in place until the wearer could not breathe and was eventually suffocated.

Janet Frame

#14. Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.

Desmond Dekker

#15. Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

Desmond Dekker

#16. I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.

Desmond Dekker

#17. Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.

Desmond Dekker

#18. Entering the phone booth, he did a phone thing.
Ring-ring-ring.

Philip K. Dick

#19. I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.

Desmond Dekker

#20. The history of American wars is littered with propaganda, falsehoods, a compliant media, the manipulation of patriotic sentiment - everything we've seen recently, we've seen before. Time and again.

Murray Polner