Fred Eaglesmith Quotes

#1. Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way.

Bernie Worrell

#2. I think the bottom of the barrel is where the answers are.

Fred Eaglesmith

#3. You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the craft, and they combine those things ... I just go, That's just fabulous.

Fred Eaglesmith

#4. Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge between the provincialism of the self and the great world.

Paula Fox

#5. I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.

Billy Sunday

#6. Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

Enrico Fermi

#7. Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. If you fall down those stairs and break both of your legs, don't come running to me!

Louise Rennison

#9. It wasn't time for a show. It was time for a beating.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. When they come out to my shows they like me but trying to get them to come out to my shows they're like "I don't want to go and see that old guy" But when they do they totally get it ...

Fred Eaglesmith

#11. I was really into '24' at university, and it resulted in a lot of lost hours that could have been spent at the library. If you could have told me then I would be in it one day, I'd have hit the roof.

Emily Berrington

#12. Life begins when we begin and each day we ought to be born again.

Sterling W. Sill