Harry Nilsson Quotes

#1. I heard that Harry Nilsson had died. The secret to being a successful hellraiser, it seemed, was to stop raising hell before hell razed you.

Pete Townshend

#2. Every single night, it seemed to be the same seven or eight guys: Harry Nilsson, myself, Mickey Dolenz, Bernie Taupin, Keith Moon when he was in town. It was actually sort of a social club, drinking club, for rock stars that drank - seriously drank.

Alice Cooper

#3. For years, I've felt like the loneliest brother on the planet. I don't play basketball, I can't dance, and I'd rather listen to Harry Nilsson than hip hop.

Shawn Amos

#4. Badfinger was pretty good. It was a very sad story, though, because the guy, he ended up killing himself, Pete Ham, who was a lovely fellow, he was a good guitar player and a great singer, he wrote, the most famous tune I would imagine is "Without You", you know the Harry Nilsson record.

George Harrison

#5. My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.

Albert Brooks

#6. My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes.

Douglas Trumbull

#7. I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

Leos Carax

#8. The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.

Criss Jami

#9. I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.

Harry Nilsson

#10. I just saw a girl who said she saw John Lennon walking down the street in New York wearing a button that said, "I love Paul." She asked him: "Why are you wearing an 'I love Paul' button?", and he said: "Because I love Paul.

Harry Nilsson

#11. I get nervous when they start shooting piano players.

Harry Nilsson

#12. It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.

Harry Nilsson

#13. That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!

Harry Nilsson

#14. It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not It just means that you're in sync with yourself. And whatever your goal is, in terms of hearing a melody or a lyric, the closer you get to it, the faster it comes out and the easier it is to "spit it out", as it were.

Harry Nilsson

#15. Dreams are nothing more than wishes and a wish is just a dream you wish to come true,

Harry Nilsson

#16. A point in every direction is the same as having no point at all.

Harry Nilsson

#17. Everybody's talkin' about me, I don't hear a word they're saying, only echoes on my mind.

Harry Nilsson

#18. The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

William James

#19. When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.

Kelly Link

#20. I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

Harry Nilsson

#21. Go where the weather suits your clothes.

Harry Nilsson