Quotes About Izzy Stradlin

#1. There's nothing like throwing up out a bus door,
going sixty-five miles an hour.

Izzy Stradlin

#2. The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from.

Izzy Stradlin

#3. His mind was like a cruel prison, giving his captive soul a sight of freedom, but no more

Irvine Welsh

#4. I have perceived much beauty
In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight;
Heard music in the silentness of duty;
Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate.

Wilfred Owen

#5. A church that assumes the gospel is a church that soon loses the gospel. The church now must articulate, at every phase, the reason for our existence, because it is no longer an obvious part of the cultural ecosystem.

Russell D. Moore

#6. Music gave me something to do in my life.

Izzy Stradlin

#7. I am free, and always have been; free to accept my own reality, free to trust my perceptions, free to believe what makes me feel sane even if others call me crazy, free to disagree even if it means great loss, free to seek the way home until I find it.

Martha Beck

#8. We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions, personalities, it just became too much.

Izzy Stradlin

#9. If you're truly playing improvised music, I don't care who you are or where you come from, you don't know what's going to happen. I feel essentially we really don't know anything anyway, most of the times we're just guessing.

Hamid Drake

#10. Some of the best stuff can be written out of dire times

Izzy Stradlin

#11. But what I forgot was that it was our plan, not hers, not the one doing the dying, this was a plan for those who still had a next. See, our job was simple: keep on living. Her job was harder, the hardest.

Ada Limon

#12. There's no reason to be offended if someone is being honest and tactful. To tell the truth in kindness is a huge favor. To help people avoid the wrong path, or get on the right one, can save them years of frustration. In the end, candor grows respect.

Nancy K. Eberhardt

#13. Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.

Atom Egoyan

#14. I hate to take showers! Guitarists don't like showers 'cause we like the grease to build up on our fingers, makes playing more fluid.

Izzy Stradlin

#15. No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.

Mark Doty

#16. It's more fun to keep stuff secret.

Martin Freeman

#17. It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.

Steve Brown

#18. I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven.

Flula Borg

#19. They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

Shirley Knight