Kim Fowley Quotes

#1. The only thing happening in San Diego County is Eno and closet homosexuality.

Kim Fowley

#2. and what they do that looks so beautiful, is
hunt .

Paul Blackburn

#3. If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.

Tom Waits

#4. If you're wonderful in any way somebody will fuck with you. Just like if you're horrible in any way they're gonna fuck with you. The world is for the average and the common. Those are the people who never hurt - they just fall asleep. The rest of us, we're The Walking Wounded.

Kim Fowley

#5. The loneliness of a visionary is that you might be the only one in the universe at that time who recognizes magic. I'm a magical person, and so I recognize other magical people. It takes ones to know one.

Kim Fowley

#6. Take a close look at nature and you'll see that every living creature is wired for mutation and variation. The fact that people can say, "I'm not the same person I used to be," is the greatest of all miracles.

Toni Sorenson

#7. Roses are red violets are blue, God made me pretty, what happened to you?

Rocky Quicksilver

#8. Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent.

Kim Fowley

#9. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations. Get on with my less-than life. I didn't want to feel better about being still alive. Start compensating.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

J.M. Coetzee

#11. In Alien, Sigourney Weaver's role was written for a man. In Salt, Angelina Jolie's role was written for Tom Cruise. These things, when reversed, do prove to be just as exciting and entertaining with women in leading roles.

Olivia Wilde

#12. My whole life, I wanted to be dead, but I didn't actually do anything about it. I guess I didn't want to be dead; I wanted relief. I wanted to be happy and peaceful." "That's it," she said. "It's not about dying; it's about stopping the pain." (289)

Monica Holloway

#13. The only guy who's honest is the guy who sings in the shower. Everyone else is a prostitute.

Kim Fowley

#14. When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don't like to be deflected by acrobatics.

Alan Furst