Klinghoffer Quotes

#1. I don't know. I love the idea of democracy, the hope, yes, I love that. I couldn't live without that. But the country? You mean the thing on the map, lines, everything inside the lines is good and nothing outside them matters? How can an adult love such a childish idea?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. Make love to me, sorcerer. Show me your powers.

Marie-Claude Bourque

#3. I have seen your mother; and I will never see her again!

Thomas Hardy

#4. More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store

John Dryden

#5. The only thing I've ever wanted to do is really make people happy, offer some sort of positivity with music that I've written. The Chili Peppers do that for people. They're already established. I still want something that came out of me, and out of my heart.

Josh Klinghoffer

#6. I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

Jack Nicklaus

#7. I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.

Olivia Newton-John

#8. I just like playing music and doing it with people that I care about. It doesn't really matter where. It's like, 'Why don't we just play piano in a small bar? Why do we want to make an arena full of people happy?'

Josh Klinghoffer

#9. Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can.

Josh Klinghoffer

#10. I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

Josh Klinghoffer

#11. I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.

Josh Klinghoffer

#12. Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.

Josh Klinghoffer

#13. The world is aware how jealously the Jewish community guards the Holocaust, both as a memory and a weapon.

David Klinghoffer

#14. No authentic Messiah would inspire a religion that ended up calling upon the Jews to reject the manifest meaning of Sinai. It is really that simple.

David Klinghoffer

#15. I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

Estee Lauder

#16. Sometimes you have to get to the heart of a character through your heart. Your own heart. And it's what makes us similar and what makes us different.

Hilary Swank

#17. The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.

Josh Klinghoffer

#18. In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of life, we have even allowed it to multiply.

David Klinghoffer

#19. Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

#20. Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates: my pure image of a band.

Josh Klinghoffer

#21. I don't think there should be a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, period.

Josh Klinghoffer

#22. It isn't brave to do something you're not afraid to do.

Evangeline Walton

#23. Real writers never show their teeth. Charlatans, in contrast, flash that sinister crescent when they smile. Check it out. Find photos of all the writers you respect, and you'll see that their teeth remain a permanently occult mystery.

Valeria Luiselli

#24. A book is a living, breathing thing. It spends the first chapters of its life curled up in the mind, symbiotic with its creator as it grows fat and round. And then the book is born.

Emily Murdoch

#25. I always like to say that the music I'd like to make is somewhere between Pan Sonic and Scott Walker. But I don't sing anything like Scott Walker.

Josh Klinghoffer

#26. The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.

Frederick Lenz