Yannis Quotes

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

Yannis Philippakis

#2. Then again, in some of our meetings, the Upyri bring cocktails, shaking both cocks and tails. Bitches. You can't live with them, they can't live without you. It's a lose-lose situation.

Yannis Karatsioris

#3. I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Calvin Trillin

#4. The kind person is rewarded by nature.

Radostin Chernev

#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. I find supermarkets fascinating places. It's extraordinary, you can buy anything there.

Marco Pierre White

#7. Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

Shirley Chisholm

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

Yannis Philippakis

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

Yannis Philippakis

#11. The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

Salman Rushdie

#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. The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

Otto Schily

#14. No tricks, Syn," Ryder growled from where he stood a few feet away.
"Tricks are for kids, silly rabbit," I said

Amelia Hutchins

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

Yannis Philippakis

#16. You and I may look at a banana and see a banana. If forced to come up with something more inventive to do with it, perhaps we'd mash it up, or maybe we'd dip it in chocolate, and say 'What a good boy am I.

Peter Sagal

#17. Our minds would heat up, If we strongly disagree what others say and it can be overcomed by ignoring their comments.

Saaif Alam

#18. I cannot teach a child I do not know

Ted Sizer

#19. 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

#20. Talk is only silence that ain't workin' well.

Gary D. Schmidt

#21. In the beginning there was Logos ... and God of course. And it was all extremely boring for Logos because he could never beat God at any game ...

Yannis Karatsioris

#22. At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!

Martha Graham

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

Yannis Philippakis

#24. If you are heading for 60, people will flirt with you; if you are heading for 70, they won't.

Trinny Woodall

#25. Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

Dorothy Day

#26. 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