G Clef Quotes

#1. Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell asong. His G clef was a dollar sign.

Albert Goldman

#2. With the windows in his top of the range Audi firmly in place we slowly baked ourselves and chatted over why my hatred of golf was wrong, what made a good antihero and why Paul McCartney should just fuck off.

David Louden

#3. It was a sacrifice worthy of her and dreams are made to be killed.

David Louden

#4. I don't like nice people. I like tough, honest people.

Woody Hayes

#5. I'm either up or on my way up. Never down

Anonymous

#6. It's important as a writer to do my art well and do it in a way that is powerful and beautiful and meaningful, so that my work regenerates the people, certainly Indian people, and the earth and the sun. And in that way we all continue forever.

Joy Harjo

#7. He was a shadow of the man that once intimidated us out of our home, a shell of a human being, a fragment of a father.

David Louden

#8. If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms ...

Jonathan Swift

#9. Mrs. Bird smiled at me as I arrived at her side. "They can surprise us, can't they, our parents? The things they got up to before we were born."
"Yes," I said. "Almost like they were real people once.

Kate Morton

#10. It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.

Wyclef Jean

#11. Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. Yes, it was difficult - making 'The Act of Killing' in particular was a very lonely process. No one really believed in it until very close to the end. But it was also a sanctuary. I was working in obscurity.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#13. Life is an illusion of the reality which we want or wish

Saurabh Mathur

#14. The only circumstances in which I would write a roman a clef would be if I'd lost my fucking car keys.

Will Self

#15. Every organization needs at least one person who knows what's going on, and why it's happening, and who's doing it.

Terry Pratchett

#16. He looked along the line of children, exhibits A to C of his existence and heirs to the twisted throne of his corrupt genetics.

David Louden

#17. In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

Elizabeth Edwards

#18. A treble clef, for example, resembles a Muscovite or Leningrader in a bulky hooded parka. A bass clef bends as simply and painfully as a silhouetted widow in Leningrad drawing water from the whiteness of a frozen canal.

William T. Vollmann

#19. The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on it. He just went in, messed around and ended up doing the hook too.

Pras Michel

#20. People suffering nervous breakdowns often do a lot of research, to find explanations for what they are undergoing. the research, of course fails.

Philip K. Dick

#21. Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.

Alfred Adler

#22. Wriggling around, two fingers deep in my back end like some teenage boy unsure what he should be tugging at inside his girlfriend's nether region I wrestled a fifty free.

David Louden

#23. Propping up a seat at the bar we devour chicken wings like life does dreams

David Louden

#24. What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues, to classical and big band and then go to pop and rap.

Casey James

#25. So you're the little smart ass from Poleglass.
I wanted to point out he sounded like Dr. Seuss but bit my lip and remembered the warning the old lady gave me.

David Louden