Top 43 Rzeznik Quotes
#2. The fear of rejection really kind of stunts your growth as a person. I mean, it's like a friend of mine says, who cares if you fail? Who cares if you fail? It's like babies try to get up and walk all the time and they keep falling down. If we just gave up, we'd all be crawling around.
John Rzeznik
#3. I wasn't good at sports and I needed a way to make girls like me.
John Rzeznik
#4. I don't like critics; I really don't like them. I think most of them are ignorant and don't have a clue!
John Rzeznik
#5. If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.
John Rzeznik
#6. You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe; and re-runs all become our history.
John Rzeznik
#7. It's better to have a pocket full of regrets than to never have lived.
John Rzeznik
#9. You are" I assured him. "We're going to get married someday. Remember?" I take a mental snapshot of the goofy grin my words put on his face.
Jessica Calla
#11. I'm a guy so I equate vulnerability with fear.
John Rzeznik
#13. As it says in the Bible, For now we through a glass, darkly; but then face to face.
If it is face to face, there must be two looking.
Margaret Atwood
#14. There are a lot of reasons to be hated in pop culture, and being a straight white male is one of them. In fact, I almost hate me
John Rzeznik
#15. When I was 18, there were 50 people that I called my friends. Today, there are only three, but I'm glad to have those three. If you have three people that you can really call your friends, then you truly have it made.
John Rzeznik
#16. Writing a poem is making music with words and space.
Arnold Adoff
#18. People who have nothing to say, speak the loudest.
John Rzeznik
#19. If Life hands you a lemon, throw it at someone
John Rzeznik
#20. Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far, did you lose yourself somewhere out there, did you get to be a star, and don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are?
John Rzeznik
#21. I think the work is always personal. This album differs. It seems to be a lot more positive. It seems to have a certain amount of optimism about it.
John Rzeznik
#22. Whenever I get upset, I remember that it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to stick up your middle finger.
John Rzeznik
#23. I work out. I try to work out every day. That keeps me in the moment, which is great. Keeps my head from thinking about the future and the past too much. I love working out. That really helps me a lot.
John Rzeznik
#24. Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.
Marianne Williamson
#25. With every decision you make in your life, you're going to have some regrets about the way it goes. You just have to chose which set of regrets you can live with the best, and try to minimize the amount of regrets you have.
John Rzeznik
#26. The sound he'd taken for an engine hum? The rowers chanting while a drummer kept the beat. "Row, row, row the boat, toward the Darkling Sea. And there we'll find some fucking fish, and have a killing spree." Each time they sang a verse, they cheered. A berserker army on its way to glory.
Eve Langlais
#27. If you can build it, you can unbuild it
Jake Pitts
#28. Yes, we started out as the Sex Maggots, then became the Goo Goo Dolls, well, and we're still the Goo Goo Dolls!
John Rzeznik
#29. There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.
Eyvind Kang
#30. Never in a hurry never worried never desperate never stopping short
Ryan Holiday
#31. Things just evolve. I sort of have no control over what happens with the songs. Sometimes I'm afraid I might wake up one morning with an entire record of polka songs.
John Rzeznik
#32. One of my friends is Snake from Skid Row.
Steve Brown
#33. I think we got started like all bands. We wanted to make some noise, hang out, and have some fun. Remember, we're from Buffalo - there isn't really that much to do. When we started we were a cover band and slowly developed our own material.
John Rzeznik
#34. Colonialism has a bad reputation in the modern context, but Colonial Africa was a far better place for both black and white before the colonists gave up.
Jeff Cooper
#35. It's liberating to live at home during the week, but on the weekend it's like, Jesus Christ, how much History Channel can one human being watch?
John Rzeznik
#36. When I'm around people who are incredibly passionate about what they're doing, people who live their lives in a more selfless way than most people. That's when I'm inspired. That's what I aspire to do and be.
John Rzeznik
#37. I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.
John Rzeznik
#38. I have to let myself be vulnerable in order to have a good marriage. That's something I'm really going to have to work on. A lot of times I'm really guarded because of what I do for a living, what I've done in my life.
John Rzeznik
#39. It's such a thrill to perform live. You never know if you're going to get hit with a bottle or a bra.
John Rzeznik
#40. If you can still wipe your own backside then life's not that bad!
E.J. Plows
#41. Nobody likes to hear a f**king rock star talk about his problems
John Rzeznik
#43. The disparity between being a 10-year-old boy playing air guitar, wishing I was a rock star, and the reality of the whole thing is insane. A girl will throw her bra onstage, and I say to myself, if I was the guy that pumped your gas today, would you throw your bra at me?
John Rzeznik
