Ween Quotes

#1. I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it. - Author: Gene Ween

#2. We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don't want to do it yet. I want to wait until we're 45 and we're bitter and broke. Then, we'll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set. - Author: Gene Ween

#3. We don't know what we're doing. We don't have a plan. We don't sit down and calculate it. - Author: Dean Ween

#4. Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been. - Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#5. I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album. - Author: Jesse Eisenberg

#6. The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater. - Author: Dean Ween

#7. I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day. - Author: Dean Ween

#8. Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink. - Author: Gene Ween

#9. When it comes to the recording and writing, it's still mostly Mickey and I. But now there's this whole live entity that's a whole different thing, and it seems to be where we're gaining the most popularity. - Author: Gene Ween

#10. When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere. - Author: Dean Ween

#11. We love doing commercial and TV show work. - Author: Gene Ween

#12. I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up. - Author: Gene Ween

#13. When you make a great record, it's around forever. - Author: Dean Ween

#14. You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk. - Author: Gene Ween

#15. Basically, Pizza Hut just backed out on the ad agency at the last minute. They got fired and we got fired. It was a simple as that. We do stuff like that on and off. - Author: Gene Ween

#16. Now in a way, money is money, and if it's going to increase our audience, that's fine. - Author: Gene Ween

#17. I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records. - Author: Dean Ween

#18. My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste. - Author: Gene Ween

#19. If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones. - Author: Dean Ween

#20. Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at. - Author: Gene Ween

#21. A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her. - Author: Gene Ween

#22. In life sometimes, in the universe, you have to close some doors to have others open. - Author: Gene Ween

#23. Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly. - Author: Gene Ween

#24. Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don't stand out too much, but they're still total freaks. I like that - they're smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us. - Author: Gene Ween

#25. But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. - Author: John Trumbull

#26. We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish. - Author: Gene Ween

#27. So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen! - Author: John Godfrey Saxe

#28. It's quantity, not quality. - Author: Dean Ween

#29. Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green. - Author: Charles Dickens

#30. A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows. - Author: Gene Ween

#31. I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars. - Author: Gene Ween

#32. We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer make the call to Elektra and ask for our advance. Then, we got dropped. It was actually exciting. - Author: Gene Ween

#33. Know that I am extremely proud of all that is 'Ween.' - Author: Gene Ween

#34. High above the earth Celandine soared filled with the peculiar joy that only Halloween could bring. It was the time of year that witches were at their most powerful; when - Author: Hal L. O'ween

#35. Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all. - Author: John Milton

#36. I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs. - Author: Gene Ween

#37. If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky. - Author: Dean Ween

#38. I was never into smart college boy music. - Author: Gene Ween

#39. On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy. - Author: Dean Ween

#40. I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way. - Author: Dean Ween