Jonathan Richman Quotes

#1. I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.

Evan Dando

#2. My favorite Galaxie 500 album is the first one, 'Today,' recorded in three days at Noise New York and produced by Kramer. It contains my favorite Galaxie 500 songs: 'Temperature's Rising,' 'Tugboat,' and our interpretation of Jonathan Richman's 'Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste.'

Dean Wareham

#3. I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.

Jerry Harrison

#4. I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'

Mac DeMarco

#5. Roadrunner, roadrunner, going faster miles an hour. Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop, with the radio on. I'm in love with Massachusetts and the neon when it's cold outside. And the highway when it's late at night. Got the radio on, I'm like the roadrunner.

Jonathan Richman

#6. Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

Jonathan Richman

#7. Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect!

Jonathan Richman

#8. Gentlemen, I give you the Whittle engine.

Frank Whittle

#9. Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#10. They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.

Jonathan Richman

#11. This was weird, civilized. Yes, I've come to rob you, sir. / How delightful; won't you have some tea before you do?

Kim Harrison

#12. I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em I don't do 'em even for myself.

Jonathan Richman

#13. Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.

Jonathan Richman

#14. Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.

Claude Monet

#15. Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.

Jonathan Richman

#16. Playing shows and making records keeps been getting easier and more fun.

Jonathan Richman

#17. With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten it. We think that's a bright line. Comparing the U.S. with Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal for patients suffering 'intolerable health problems.'

Arthur Caplan

#18. I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do.

Charles Osgood

#19. Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

Michela Wrong

#20. I will wait for Cleopatra, for I know my time must come. And I'm getting ready for wherever she'll be at-tra, cause I'm getting stronger now and not so dumb.

Jonathan Richman

#21. All the past is not worth one today.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#22. Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.

Rick Warren

#23. I think you can be as big as you like as long as you mean it. I really do.

Alan Cumming

#24. You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city.

Jonathan Richman