Johnette Quotes

#1. Romy Madley Croft from the xx. Number two: Alison Moyet from Yaz. And number three: Johnette Napolitanos from Concrete Blonde.

Kim Holden

#2. One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.

Martin Buber

#3. I enjoyed recording at home. I had the luxury of being able to re-record things.

Johnette Napolitano

#4. It's hard to be objective about your own work.

Johnette Napolitano

#5. First impressions are like South American dictators: overly powerful and unreliable.

A. J. Jacobs

#6. Persistence and prayer: there can be little success in life living one without the other.

Clara Freeman

#7. Everyone thinks I'm Jewish. I'm not. Last year I got a call: "Happy Hanukkah." I said "Ma, I'm not Jewish.

Joy Behar

#8. God knows I'm a workaholic.

Johnette Napolitano

#9. If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

Walter Damrosch

#10. The phrase onenight stand is a misnomer. There is no such thing as a onenight stand. Sometimes, what you do for one night destroys your future.

Anonymous

#11. My goal in life is to be as happy as a studio audience.

Jim Gaffigan

#12. Life is beautiful, and terrible, and strange.

Johnette Napolitano

#13. Things get better everyday you stay alive
then I'm amazed
every day
that the sun decides to rise
every minute, every hour, is another
chance to change
life is beautiful & terrible & strange.

Johnette Napolitano

#14. Since so much of this music bubbled up urgently from my subconsious mind, I'm left to interpret it much like anyone else.

Pete Townshend

#15. Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children

Immortal Technique

#16. It makes me happy to hear good music before I go on.

Johnette Napolitano

#17. The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone, or to recreate it.

Johnette Napolitano

#18. I feel naked when I'm by myself on stage. I feel as honest as I can.

Johnette Napolitano

#19. Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative, which is perhaps why in our morally bewildered time novelists have often been timid about plot.

Jane Rule

#20. During the day, the library is a realm of order.

Alberto Manguel

#21. There is a moment when a man thinks he's going to die when he's terrified," Drizzt replied. "Then there is a moment when a man is sure he's going to die when he's outraged. That moment, upon the Luskar right now, is the time of greatest courage and the time when enemies should quiver in fear.

R.A. Salvatore

#22. To live as God's child is to know that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more.

Max Lucado

#23. This is life. We have to take it as it comes, because even though some things are really shitty, there's a lot of really great stuff too.

Rebecca Serle

#24. I enjoy being on my own. I feel like I have more room to stretch. I have to go with the flow.

Johnette Napolitano

#25. You never know what you can handle until if comes time to handle it. The less you think about it the better you'll handle it.

Art Hochberg