Jansch Quotes

#1. All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people. But I didn't start out thinking that I would be a guitar player. In the beginning, I played the guitar so I could sing. I mainly concentrated on my voice.

James Vincent McMorrow

#2. Led Zeppelin created their music from a diet of Bert Jansch, Memphis Minnie, John Fahey, Billy Fury, Phil Spector, Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, Moby Grape, Manitas De Plata and Om Kalsoum. Those who came afterwards were content with a diet of Led Zeppelin, which is not the same thing at all.

David Hepworth

#3. I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.

Sally Quinn

#4. Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away.

Selma Lagerlof

#5. Maybe you're smiling as I stumble to put my feelings into words. But I'm trying to do her justice, you know?

James Lusarde

#6. That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done.

Robert Hamer

#7. At my age, every day that I overcome simple inertia is a victory.

Michael LaRocca

#8. Instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

Paul Krugman

#9. Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out.

Bert Jansch

#10. Einstein would be one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time even if he had not written a single line on relativity.

Max Born

#11. Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

John Ralston Saul

#12. The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.

James Frey

#13. The key to a good life is to balance the good and evil rather than trying to get rid of all evils because if you get rid of all your evils, you would also lose all your desire and ability to do good. In other words, you become neutral like neutron and become useless for the self and the society.

Awdhesh Singh

#14. If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

Anne Lamott

#15. Sometimes the best parts are the leading men. But the little parts can be similarly gratifying.

Theo James

#16. I think I come under the singer/songwriter badge. I've always written songs right from the very beginning. Because of my style of playing people tend of me more of a guitar player than a singer sometimes.

Bert Jansch