Linkous Quotes

#1. I think maybe I'm trying to forget or not be so conscious about plastic circuitry and just go for the feeling.

Mark Linkous

#2. When people want me to sign records they usually always have Vivadixie[submarinetransmissions], and I think that's a lot of people's favorite record. And that was sort of when I was just learning what I was doing.

Mark Linkous

#3. I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown.

Mark Linkous

#4. I was such a late bloomer I didn't have feelings towards men or women, and frankly I was a little surprised when it turned out to be men

Diane Neal

#5. Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation

Mark Linkous

#6. Identifying with the results is very dangerous, especially for those trying to control the senses or practice celibacy.

B.T. Swami

#7. I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something.

Mark Linkous

#8. I never really made much money playing music. It's because I've never really worked with a producer who could make my music sound, I guess, like how the public wants it to sound.

Mark Linkous

#9. Ah. That was what he was doing. Once they were beneath the covers, no one would be able to tell if they were making love or simply trying on each other's underwear. Especially if they turned off the lights.

Suzanne Brockmann

#10. After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work

Beryl Markham

#11. Don't forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age; there will be time for meekness when you try to better it. Very soon you will be Victorian or that sort of thing yourselves; next session probably, when the freshman come up.

J.M. Barrie

#12. A lot of the stuff I listen to is glitchy electronic stuff and stuff with beats.

Mark Linkous

#13. One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.

Susan Rice

#14. You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.

Dale Earnhardt

#15. Dear Mrs Chiley," said Lucilla, "it doesn't matter in the least what you wear; there are only to be gentlemen, you, know, and one never dresses for gentlemen. (...) Their vanity is something dreadful-but it is one of my principles never to dress unless there are ladies.

Mrs. Oliphant

#16. Angels held conversations with humans in many places in the Bible - they bring or teach us things: (so what do demons bring or teach us??)

Glynda Linkous

#17. It takes me forever to write songs most of the time.

Mark Linkous

#18. Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.

P. J. O'Rourke

#19. I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.

Henry L. Stimson