Top 74 Quotes About Brion
#1. I am star-struck but also I've known a lot of people for a long time. Like I'm super star-struck by Grant Lee Phillips and Jon Brion but I've known them for 17 years. So it's kinda like weird to be star-struck still, but I still am!
Margaret Cho
#2. What is it?" Brion asked. "You look like you've been chewing on the ass end of a goat." Jonas
Morgan Rhodes
#3. When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to.
William S. Burroughs
#4. The first person who really showed me the ugly spirit was Brion Gysin. "The ugly spirit shot Joan because ... " and I never found out why. This Brion wrote out on a piece of paper in a sort of trance state.
Allen Ginsberg
#5. You need to think with your head, not only your heart."
He couldn't help but snort softly at that. "You think I'm using my heart right now?"
Brion rolled his eyes. "Yes. And in case there's any doubt, your heart is an idiot just like the rest of you ...
Morgan Rhodes
#6. The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines.
Carole Bouquet
#7. For ten thousand centimos, I'm tempted to turn you in myself,"Brion said.
Jonas snorted uneasily."For ten thousand centimos, I'm tempted to turn myself in.
Morgan Rhodes
#8. OFFICERS OF OUR GUERILLA MUST BE POETS.
THE AREA OF POETRY MUST BE CONSTANTLY RE-CREATED.
- Brion Gysin, Guerrilla Conditions, nd.
Brion Gysin
#9. [Brion calls his working relationship with West a natural fit.] His knowledge and understanding of records across the board is great, ... That's the reason why we got along: We don't see music as something that happens in one genre.
Jon Brion
#10. I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.
Brion James
#11. When ya gotta goNow we know what we are here for. We are not here to love fear and serve any old bearded but invisible thunder god. We are here to go.
Brion Gysin
#12. < ... > black slavery was basic and integral to the entire phenomenon we call "America." This often hidden or disguised truth ultimately involves the profound contradiction of a free society that was made possible by black slave labor.
David Brion Davis
#13. When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I'm getting warmer, and that I'm more mystified by human interactions.
Jon Brion
#14. The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss.
Brion James
#15. I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one.
Brion James
#16. I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
Brion James
#17. You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.
Brion Gysin
#18. It was so much fun conducting an orchestra and watching the musicians' faces as some of Kanye's lyrics went by. They couldn't believe what was going on.
Jon Brion
#19. You never know what show is going to change your life.
Brion James
#20. I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.
Jon Brion
#21. As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.
Brion Gysin
#22. Things begin, things decay, and you've got to find a way to be okay.
Jon Brion
#23. Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.
Brion James
#24. There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what the record's going to sound like before it comes out.
Jon Brion
#25. The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them, you know?
Jon Brion
#26. Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.
Jon Brion
#27. I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.
Brion James
#28. Some trillions of years ago a sloppy, dirty giant flicked grease from his fingers. One of those gobs of grease is our universe on its way to the floor. Splat!
Brion Gysin
#29. I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.
Brion James
#30. I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career.
Brion Gysin
#31. I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.
Brion James
#32. For Southerners, a white skin was the distinguishing badge of mind and intellect. Black skin was the sign that a given people had been providentially designed to serve as menial laborers, as what Hammond called the "mudsill" class necessary to support every society.
David Brion Davis
#34. As far as I'm concerned, any work you get is because people have heard other work you've done.
Jon Brion
#35. If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it's amazing how good we are at it.
Jon Brion
#36. Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people.
Brion James
#38. I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.
Brion James
#39. Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?
Brion James
#40. My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.
Brion James
#41. We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.
David Brion Davis
#42. What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!
Brion Gysin
#43. Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.
Jon Brion
#44. After noticing the fuel gauges were reading near empty, I looked out the top window, and I could see the fuel cap was being dragged along in the slipstream by its anchoring chain. Since the top of the wing was a low-pressure area, it had sucked my fuel right out and overboard. So,
Tom Brion
#45. We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.
Jon Brion
#46. Humans are no less eager than in the past to dominate, degrade, humiliate, and control - often in order to confirm their own sense of pride and superiority. (Adam Smith wrote in 1776 that this was the main motive for slavery.) But
David Brion Davis
#47. Several travelers noted that American masters wanted above all to be "popular" with their slaves - a characteristically American need that was probably rare in Brazil or the Caribbean.
David Brion Davis
#49. I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that.
Brion James
#50. In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.
Brion James
#51. I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.
Brion James
#53. Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
Brion James
#55. You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.
Brion James
#56. Writing is fifty years behind painting.
Brion Gysin
#57. My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.
Brion James
#58. The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.
Brion James
#59. Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.
Jon Brion
#61. < ... > this Revolutionary ideology, epitomized by the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence, showed that the very idea of slavery is a fiction or fraud, since liberty and equality are fundamental rights that no one can legitimately lose.
David Brion Davis
#62. I couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do.
Brion James
#63. Thus the word "inhuman", in this book's title, refers to the unconscionable and unsuccessful goal of bestializing (in the form of pets as well as beasts of burden) a class of human beings.
David Brion Davis
#64. She feels "Brutal Dynasty" actually may become the Great American Novel she and her fellow critics have been looking for so long.
Clyde Brion Davis
#65. I'd like to think that most of what I do is self-evident if you're listening to it or seeing it. But I don't mind the fact that it's hard to describe.
Jon Brion
#66. People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.
Jon Brion
#67. I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.
Brion James
#68. I'll have you understand the United States has got the best navy in the world."
"Well, . . . why, then, do we need a bigger navy?"
"We've got to have a still bigger navy because we're the richest nation on earth.
Clyde Brion Davis
#69. It may not be the "Great American Novel" they talk about, because its scope is not broad enough to take in all of America, but it pictures the people and the customs and the drama of upstate New York in the days preceding and following the Civil War with a simplicity that, to my mind, is true art.
Clyde Brion Davis
#70. < ... > tyranny is a central theme of American history, that racial exploitation and racial conflict have been part of the DNA of American culture.
David Brion Davis
#71. If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be barred from the public libraries and he woukd be ostracized by society.
Clyde Brion Davis
#72. I could talk about Blade Runner forever.
Brion James
#73. We have seen the death of Republicanism, of special privilege and national boodle.
Clyde Brion Davis
#74. I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto whom everything is permitted, nothing is true.
Brion Gysin
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