Rateliff Songs Quotes

#1. I think kids are smarter than you think.

Steve Wiebe

#2. An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

Sol LeWitt

#3. The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

Julien Green

#4. I've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.

Nathaniel Rateliff

#5. You know, it's a long world.

Lawrence Welk

#6. No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying "how do you do?" When you have no intention of inquiring about ones health. But specific claims when made in print are taken at their value

Claude C. Hopkins

#7. Sometimes, I don't like making emotions your career; something about it is kind of gross. But, at the same time, I want to move people the same way the songs make me feel.

Nathaniel Rateliff

#8. Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

Nathaniel Rateliff

#9. I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.

Frank Frankfort Moore

#10. I'm the same kind of guy before all this happened.

Michael Phelps

#11. There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.

Nathaniel Rateliff

#12. Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.

Zach Galifianakis

#13. I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.

Nathaniel Rateliff