Ribot Quotes

#1. I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero.

Annie E. Clark

#2. Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.

Marc Ribot

#3. Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

Marc Ribot

#4. CHAPTER XI TREATS OF MR. FANG THE POLICE MAGISTRATE; AND FURNISHES A SLIGHT SPECIMEN OF HIS MODE OF ADMINISTERING JUSTICExs

Charles Dickens

#5. Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

Marc Ribot

#6. Four. I checked the other side

Sue Grafton

#7. We believe in a government strong enough to use words like "love" and "compassion" and smart enough to convert our noblest aspirations into practical realities.

Mario Cuomo

#8. Do you want to have your feelings hurt a little bit because you have some negative feedback, or do you want to continue down the disastrous track you're on and have a huge disaster? Talk about a bruised ego. It may ruin your career.

Charles Koch

#9. The bag is me. I can't explain why the bag is me, but the bag is me. I have been swinging and I have come to a complete stop. I have no idea why. I have no idea why anything. Like, why I'm here. Or why I stopped. Or why I was swinging.

A.S. King

#10. Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.

Marc Ribot

#11. I'm staying here tonight. I can bunk on the floor. (Nathan)
What if I say no? (Terri)
I'll just break in after you go to sleep and still bunk on the floor. (Nathan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. When you dine with the devil use a long spoon, and I've repeatedly preached that to him, too.

Patricia Cornwell

#13. I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.

Marc Ribot

#14. I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.

Marc Ribot

#15. I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.

Marc Ribot

#16. I will be patient till even patience tires of my patience.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib