Quotes About Gram Parsons

#1. I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons. I learned how to listen to George Jones records and the Louvin Brothers.

Emmylou Harris

#2. I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

Emmylou Harris

#3. I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church.

Justin Townes Earle

#4. The Stones are not the world's greatest band. Not even the world's second greatest band. What they are is the world's most overrated band. And it wasn't Keith or Mick who wrote "Wild Horses". It was Gram Parsons.

Jo Nesbo

#5. So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

Daisaku Ikeda

#6. When you read a book, you don't give up on it. You might soon feel like your part of the story.

Kiersten White

#7. The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.

Evan Esar

#8. This day boldness is manifested in a simple grace: gratitude.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#9. My beautiful, my Isobel. My Love. You ask me to wait. And so I wait.
For all of this, I know, is but a dream.
And when, in sleep, at last we wake,
I will see you again.

Kelly Creagh

#10. Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

Rick Moody

#11. Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down/And they all led me straight back home to you.

Gram Parsons

#12. There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Hannah Arendt

#13. I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think - just ask my critics.

Daniel Dennett

#14. Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

Denis Diderot

#15. I don't have to edit myself. I get to be me, warts and all, and that's ultimately what people want, and to trust each other implicitly.

Greg Behrendt

#16. I am not going to let negative people control my mood. They have problems and they are not going to give their problems to me.

Joyce Meyer

#17. Google, as usual, is one step ahead of everyone and provided the means where all videos on YouTube can be automatically captioned through voice-recognition technology without having to be told that it's the responsible thing to do.

Marlee Matlin

#18. I think pure country music includes rock and roll .. I've never been able to get into the further label of country-rock .. how can you define something like that ? - I just say this: It's music. Either it's good or it's bad; either you like it or you don't

Gram Parsons

#19. The first time I lose I drink whiskey, second time I lose I drink gin. Third time I lose I drink anything 'cause I think I'm gonna win.

Gram Parsons

#20. If you get good ratings, they'll cover you even if you have nothing to say.

Donald Trump

#21. Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues

Gram Parsons

#22. We don't wear sequins because we think we're great. We wear them because we think sequins are great.

Gram Parsons

#23. At Harvard, you don't major. You concentrate.

Gram Parsons

#24. I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music.

Gram Parsons

#25. Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.

Gram Parsons

#26. Being suicidal is really tiring. A lot of suicides are so lacking in affect and so lethargic that they aren't able to kill themselves until their mood improves - spring, for that reason, has the highest rate of what people in the business call "completed" suicides.

Charles D'Ambrosio

#27. The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

Robert Ringer