Richard Manuel Quotes

#1. Low fiber, red meat rich diets increase the risks of colon cancer, and obesity is linked to breast cancer, but much more about these links remain unknown, especially in molecular terms.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#2. The speaker catches fire
looking at their faces.
His words
jump down to stand
in listener's places.

Langston Hughes

#3. Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.

Levon Helm

#4. In order to destroy this system which we so much detest we are creating conditions over here which run contrary to our dearest p-principles.

Winston Graham

#5. I may be surprised. But I don't think I will be.

Andrew Strauss

#6. He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

Epicurus

#7. I play patterns. I'll make up a pattern and just play it.

Richard Manuel

#8. I like the way we talk to each other. It feels honest. It was different with Manuel. One of us always had to win. Husbands and wives do that, worry more about being right than being truthful.

Richard Lange

#9. A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they're doing work that most any trained person could do.

Seth Godin

#10. I love the season changes.

Richard Manuel

#11. Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected. It

G.K. Chesterton

#12. I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He's only two, but his food vocabulary is fantastic. He likes my baked tilapia and string beans with chopped garlic. But he really likes pizza. Sometimes every inanimate object to him is pizza.

Jill Scott

#13. Well, let's see: I started [in music] at nine and quit. Then got back to it when I was twelve. Then I became a party star. In fact, I became a party!

Richard Manuel

#14. There are no managers like there used to be managers.

Richard Manuel

#15. Of course I knew The Band's Canadian keyboard player, the late Richard Manuel, but I didn't play that night because I was there as a guest with my record executives. People ask, "why didn't you play?" If I had known I was going to be playing then I would have been prepared for it.

Gordon Lightfoot

#16. The stupid part is that he isn't interested in ... in getting serious. We get along. We have fun together. For him, that's enough. And it's so stupid for me to get hung up on him.

Jim Butcher

#17. I still don't know how to read music.

Richard Manuel