Montrose Quotes

#1. Mornings in the kitchen, afternoons in the counseling room, evenings out combing streets of half-lamplight: Hermann Park, Montrose, Sunnyside, Hiram Clarke, the Fifth Ward.

Colum McCann

#2. FUCK!" Annie Montrose said. "You have got to be fucking kidding me!

Andy Weir

#3. At Montrose Beach Park in Chicago, I photographed a diverse group of city dwellers reveling in the warm, late-day sun.

Kevin J. Miyazaki

#4. I overheard Dorothy talking to Mr Montrose and she was telling Mr Montrose that she thought that I would be great in the movies if he would write me a part that only had three expressions, Joy, Sorrow, and Indigestion.

Anita Loos

#5. Chin up! You're a Montrose, and we stay calm and composed everywhere, always.

Kerstin Gier

#6. Just thought you should know," she said, winking. "Can I tell them to piss off?"
"Oh sure," Jeth said, not nearly as amused by the situation as she was. "Just be polite about it."
Lizzie grinned and said into the comm, "This is the Montrose. The captain says piss off. Politely.

Mindee Arnett

#7. Montrose decided then and there that a full library, one made of old-fashioned paper books with bindings, the kind that cannot be electronically re-edited by anonymous lines of hidden code, was just as much a necessity for a free man as a shooting iron or a printing press.

John C. Wright

#8. By noon that day I was painfully aware of how many people needed the services of an entomologist/proctologist. AArdvarks

Ken Montrose

#9. I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them.

Ronnie Montrose

#10. Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.

Ronnie Montrose

#11. I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.

Ronnie Montrose

#12. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.

Ronnie Montrose

#13. It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music.

Ronnie Montrose

#14. I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.

Ronnie Montrose

#15. Gamma was a logical progression after doing the Open Fire record.

Ronnie Montrose

#16. My philosophy is, honestly, never collected anything that I don't play. I know a lot of people that collect guitars, but for me, I want instruments that I play. And if I don't play them, I don't' want to have them sitting in a closet collecting dust.

Ronnie Montrose

#17. But it has been a long process because I'm kind of a renaissance person.

Ronnie Montrose

#18. I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

Ronnie Montrose

#19. I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

Ronnie Montrose

#20. You know, you don't please everybody.

Ronnie Montrose

#21. Because it was the original 4 guys, and the dynamic of those 4 guys interacting together that had the power.

Ronnie Montrose

#22. When you have a life-threatening illness like cancer, and you're faced with the alternative, it gives doing whatever it is you do a much sweeter taste.

Ronnie Montrose

#23. the man with one hand turned on an enormous radio and tuned it to a mastermix station where the songs are not sung so much as bleated. Bleated and repeated.

David Sedaris

#24. I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for.

Ronnie Montrose

#25. My first experience with music was my father, he was a stereo buff and he built his own little Hi-Fi center with recorders and everything and I listened to a lot of jazz, which gave me a sensibility for melody.

Ronnie Montrose

#26. What made me pick up a guitar? It weighed a lot less than a piano.

Ronnie Montrose

#27. I've never known how to read music in my life.

Ronnie Montrose

#28. I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in having good people around me and it turned out to be a pretty good recording in my opinion.

Ronnie Montrose

#29. I had prostate cancer that, for me, was debilitating. I didn't touch a guitar for two years, but when I realized I was seeing the light at the end of the recovery tunnel and was going to live pain-free, I realized again that it was a fun little instrument to play.

Ronnie Montrose

#30. I don't recall getting a first guitar.

Ronnie Montrose

#31. I feel very fortunate to have my ears. I'd share them with everybody but I only have two to go around.

Ronnie Montrose

#32. Today I will remember the world owes me nothing, does not respond to my will,
and goes merrily on with or without my consent.
On the other hand,
I am free to change myself as I see fit.

Ken Montrose

#33. I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.

Ronnie Montrose