Jay Reatard Quotes

#1. Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

Charles Eastman

#2. Great leaders have an air of confidence," he replied. "Subordinates need to look up to somebody who is still standing strong, like an oak, regardless of events around them.

Carmine Gallo

#3. The city, compelling as it was, felt like a glamorous couture dress I had bought in haste but that didn't quite fit me after all.

Jojo Moyes

#4. In any survival situation, you need to weigh the risk and the reward.

Joe Teti

#5. The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek
opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you
desire.

Brian Tracy

#6. During the writing process, I tend not to listen to too much music. I obviously wear a lot of influences on my sleeve, but if I was listening to too many records, I would turn into too much of a monkey.

Jay Reatard

#7. I really don't think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you're finished writing, you start recording. That just seems conventional and old-fashioned to me.

Jay Reatard

#8. A single is really quick, man. You can get it out, and in two months have it on your merch table. And albums can take a really long time. But when you get done with an album, it's a lot more fulfilling.

Jay Reatard

#9. When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre

Virginia Woolf

#10. So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

Daniel Keyes

#11. Every filmmaker's just going to keep trying to make it the best you can make it: make it as potent and interesting and entertaining and exciting and tough and sexy as you can.

Catherine Hardwicke

#12. Ern! Ern! Guess 'oo Neville is, Ern! 'E's 'Arry Potter! I can see 'is scar!

J.K. Rowling

#13. I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.

Jay Reatard

#14. In a world of spiritual eunuchs, it is good to find a man who is more than simply male.

Douglas Wilson