Yannis Philippakis Quotes

#1. I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.

Yannis Philippakis

#2. Financial security is crucial for your family, and I have a large family. Money does matter when you don't have it. When you need it, you realise the value of it. In that sense, money will always have value.

Katrina Kaif

#3. In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#4. I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

David Baldacci

#5. I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place where it's not earnest but it's vulnerable.

Yannis Philippakis

#6. Two people should see a relationship as a constant opportunity to improve and be improved. When lovers teach each other uncomfortable truths, they are not giving up on love. They are trying to do something very true to love: which is to make their partners more loveable.

The School Of Life

#7. As actors, we don't shy away from saying, 'I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to meet girls.' Directors cannot say the same thing.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#8. When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.

Yannis Philippakis

#9. The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

Jean Baudrillard

#10. I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations.

Yannis Philippakis

#11. I started growing roses. I enjoyed the craft of it and that they're difficult to look after; they can provide joy.

Yannis Philippakis

#12. You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back to [the lyrics]; I wanted to squirm.

Yannis Philippakis

#13. My first car was a 1999 red Mazda Protege.

Ike Barinholtz

#14. I've never yet met a person who didn't want to be appreciated ...

Mary Kay Ash

#15. I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.

Yannis Philippakis

#16. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make who would you call and what would you say?
And why are you waiting?

Stephen Levine

#17. It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.

Dan Colen

#18. Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.

Yannis Philippakis

#19. It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

Edwin Starr

#20. Nobody wanted your dance,
Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering
Drowning life and your effort to save yourself,
Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,
Looking for something to give.

Ted Hughes

#21. Eternal vigilance is the price of eternal development.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#22. I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

Yannis Philippakis

#23. Primarily I have a simple desire to shine my ass - to show off a bit in print.

Elliott Chaze

#24. I'm definitely preoccupied by thinking I'm just a biological thing. I want to feel that there's more, but so often I'm reminded of how we're just like baboons, basically.

Yannis Philippakis

#25. Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.

Arthur Machen