Segall Quotes

#1. It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.

Immanuel Kant

#2. Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Bob Dylan

#3. There's the conforming 9-to-5-lifestyle thing. Then there's, like, settling down, trying to find a balance in a relationship sense, or having a dog and having a house. All these things, like, they're not really gonna make you happy.

Ty Segall

#4. Trying to say something is all you got in life.

Ty Segall

#5. I'm a pretty young person, but I think you need a little life experience to actually say something.

Ty Segall

#6. All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?

Ty Segall

#7. I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008.

Lea Michele

#8. I don't think I'm the best lyricist; it's hard for me to express feelings through words.

Ty Segall

#9. My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.

Ty Segall

#10. The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.

Harry Segall

#11. But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it's good I'm learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.

Ty Segall

#12. Well, there are some who claim I'm more of one nation than another, but that's not true, Eddie. I'm of all nations, I play no favorites.

Harry Segall

#13. I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it ... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

Ty Segall

#14. Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

Harry Segall

#15. People spend hours constantly checking and tweeting and Facebooking. And it's cool to check up on your friends and see what's going on in the world, but it's not cool to spend five hours of your day on the computer looking at the Internet.

Ty Segall

#16. What excites me is the idea of doing a record that's pretty clean and focused on songs. I've rushed a lot with previous albums and there's not a rush now - it's not a race.

Ty Segall

#17. The Word of God released from your mouth will be planted in your heart. Faith is released from the mouth. The mouth can only release what is in the heart. Faith in the heart that is released through the mouth can move mountains.

John Eckhardt

#18. The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Benjamin Disraeli

#19. A CCR Headcleaner show will blow your mind.

Ty Segall

#20. I was sick of fast, aggressive music; I felt like I needed to make a poppy thing. But, right now, I feel like I need to make a Hawkwind/Sabbath record. It gets boring if you just do the same thing all the time.

Ty Segall

#21. Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who needs a psychiatrist must be crazy.

Harry Segall

#22. Usually, I'm over-analyzing things that have to do with my own actions.

Ty Segall

#23. Any reality-TV show on MTV is gonna be fake and stupid.

Ty Segall

#24. 22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, from first to last, the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz wrote.

Anonymous

#25. There's a line in one of my dad's novels about the most beautiful parts of the female anatomy being the ones that are the most innocent - the ones that have never been scandalized by nudity.

Matthew Norman

#26. Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool.

Ty Segall

#27. I try to ignore the Internet. It's an evil, evil place.

Ty Segall

#28. Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.

Ty Segall

#29. I've always had problems with my brain, so a lot of the songs are about issues I have with paranoia or freak-outs. 'When My Head Explodes' is about being on stage, having people look at you and expecting you to perform, then literally your head explodes.

Ty Segall

#30. I'm jamming 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4' all the time. Zappa's 'Cruising With Ruben & The Jets.' A lot of Gong lately. Some Hawkwind. The Residents' 'Duck Stab' is amazing. Some Fugs. Lots of stuff, man. I'm pretty schizophrenic with records.

Ty Segall

#31. Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hearken instead to the angel on your shoulder.

Harry Segall

#32. The next album I make might be the most messed up thing ever. It's all momentary for me.

Ty Segall

#33. A good record transports you to another place.

Ty Segall

#34. There's nothing harder than making a mellow, clean record. It's really scary. I can see why people would never want to do it.

Ty Segall