Gene Ween Quotes

#1. You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk.

Gene Ween

#2. Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

E.L. Doctorow

#3. Everyone working 40 hrs a week should have a shot at a decent life.

Joe Biden

#4. Every gesture is a revolutionary act.

Fernando Pessoa

#5. Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.

Gene Ween

#6. When it comes to the recording and writing, it's still mostly Mickey and I. But now there's this whole live entity that's a whole different thing, and it seems to be where we're gaining the most popularity.

Gene Ween

#7. I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it.

Gene Ween

#8. I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.

Gene Ween

#9. Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.

Michelle Malkin

#10. I absolutely don't relate to being beaten down my whole life - I had amazing opportunities at a young age - but there is still in many, many people's minds the notion that I'll never be able to escape Harry Potter.

Daniel Radcliffe

#11. Basically, Pizza Hut just backed out on the ad agency at the last minute. They got fired and we got fired. It was a simple as that. We do stuff like that on and off.

Gene Ween

#12. Now in a way, money is money, and if it's going to increase our audience, that's fine.

Gene Ween

#13. My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.

Gene Ween

#14. Giving our children rest means being their safe harbor, their place to retreat when life hurts and the world looms large and people disappoint and mistakes are made. Becoming that safe harbor means being free ~ freely available, freely offered, freely welcoming.

L.R. Knost

#15. This trip just went from fucked up to totally fucking crazy shit.

Kameron Hurley

#16. I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.

Wayne Rooney

#17. Those who got the twentieth century right, whether in anticipation [..] or as contemporary observations, had to be able to imagine a world for which there was no precedent.

Tony Judt

#18. Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.

Gene Ween

#19. A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her.

Gene Ween

#20. In life sometimes, in the universe, you have to close some doors to have others open.

Gene Ween

#21. Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

Alberto Moravia

#22. Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly.

Gene Ween

#23. Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don't stand out too much, but they're still total freaks. I like that - they're smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us.

Gene Ween

#24. We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

Gene Ween

#25. I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.

Joseph Rotblat

#26. They would expect him to be afraid; for his service pursued traitors as the eye of God followed Cain across the desert.

John Le Carre

#27. A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows.

Gene Ween

#28. I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars.

Gene Ween

#29. We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer make the call to Elektra and ask for our advance. Then, we got dropped. It was actually exciting.

Gene Ween

#30. I guess I'm flattered that people think I can help get things done.

Tony Dungy

#31. Know that I am extremely proud of all that is 'Ween.'

Gene Ween

#32. I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

Gene Ween

#33. I was never into smart college boy music.

Gene Ween

#34. Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

Troy Aikman

#35. We love doing commercial and TV show work.

Gene Ween

#36. We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don't want to do it yet. I want to wait until we're 45 and we're bitter and broke. Then, we'll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set.

Gene Ween