Jann Quotes

#1. In my next life, I want to be Jann Wenner.

Sean Patrick Maloney

#2. Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.

Michael Patrick Jann

#3. It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.

Jann Wenner

#4. I listen to a lot of different styles of music. So it doesn't have to be just one thing. I prefer it. If it's not, I get bored very easily.

Jann Klose

#5. Being yourself is one of the greatest things you can possibly do. Being true to yourself.

Jann Wenner

#6. I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy.

Jann Wenner

#7. There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves.

Jann Wenner

#8. South Africa is a whole other world. I went to grade school there and high school in Johannesburg, and before that, my family lived in Kenya in Nairobi where my brother was actually born, and my sister was born in Capetown. I spent the first 10 years of my life in South Africa.

Jann Klose

#9. When I started Rolling Stone in November 1967, the magazine's initial chapter was to cover rock & roll music with intelligence and respect. Even then, we knew that the fervor sweeping our generation encompassed more than just music.

Jann Wenner

#10. To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.

Jann Wenner

#11. Feet on ground,
Heart in hand,
Facing forward,
Be yourself.

Jann Arden

#12. The most important thing a magazine can do online is maintain its brand and be very strong in terms of delivering on that brand.

Jann Wenner

#13. Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

Michael Patrick Jann

#14. And you know me, oh you know me more than anyone.

Jann Arden

#15. I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.

Jann Klose

#16. I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.

Michael Patrick Jann

#17. David Bendeth was introduced to me by an entertainment lawyer friend.

Jann Klose

#18. I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed.

Jann Wenner

#19. And every breath I ever took, every tear I ever wept, every star I wished upon seemed nothing until now. Every prayer I ever said seemed strangely answered now. Could it be I'm in love? Could it be I'm in love?

Jann Arden

#20. The book. The book ... think about a book. What a perfect invention. The best and most important ever.

Jann Arden

#21. And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

Michael Patrick Jann

#22. I thought you might have some advice to give on how to be insensitive.

Jann Arden

#23. A lover makes you smile like children smile. That smile that was only meant for you. The half smile. The big shiny smile full of teeth and white enamel and pink gums. The smile that fades in the distance as I drive away in a taxi again.

Jann Arden

#24. The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.

Jann Arden

#25. Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know

Jann Arden

#26. When you look at anyone's iPod or iPhone and their music collection on there, it's not the same 10 songs. People like diversity.

Jann Klose

#27. Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.

Jann Wenner

#28. If wine is fruit, then vodka must be a vegetable.

Jann Arden

#29. I want to do something that is unique, that has its own legs. But it's very hard because if you start veering off, if you get too crazy, then people won't know what to make of it. I want to please my audience, too. I want people to like what I do.

Jann Klose

#30. Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

Michael Patrick Jann

#31. If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.

Michael Patrick Jann

#32. My heart smiled when you kissed my lips. What a sweet suprise.

Jann Arden

#33. I'm a neat freak ... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

Jann Wenner

#34. Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

Jann Klose

#35. It was a wealthy family, and they heard me talk about movies, and they told me I should go into movies. That's the benefit of hanging out with rich people; they have no sense of what is or isn't possible.

Michael Patrick Jann

#36. By the time you were in your cradle," said Darcy, his voice laced with sarcasm, "I was already riding my first pony." "You

Jann Rowland

#37. To not think of dying, is to not think of living.

Jann Arden

#38. It's a different thing playing in a smaller venue where you can actually see people's faces and reactions. It's so much more intimate. You walk away with a more personal experience.

Jann Klose

#39. I'm out of vogue, I'm out of touch. I fell to fast - I feel too much.

Jann Arden

#40. Life is like that. Some days are diamonds and some days are stones.

Jann Arden

#41. The challenges are different to different kinds of magazines. News magazines, magazines that have high frequency and news, are going to be challenged, heavily challenged, not just by the Internet but by the whole 24-hour news cycle which has just been getting enhanced.

Jann Wenner