Yauch Quotes

#1. Yauch was great at lacking fear.

Michael Diamond

#2. Yauch was a gifted MC.

Michael Diamond

#3. However, society always imposes on us a collective way of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that.

Paulo Coelho

#4. I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, because we were already making punk records. We were a punk band. And I kind of thought, that's crazy.

Adam Yauch

#5. What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

Jean Cocteau

#6. If I feel like I've done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.

Adam Yauch

#7. I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.

Adam Yauch

#8. It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face 'cause I love to do it

Adam Yauch

#9. I won't sell my songs for no TV Ad

Adam Yauch

#10. I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.

Adam Yauch

#11. It's pretty easy to see that ... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.

Adam Yauch

#12. As a supporter of the Prostate Cancer Foundation and their Home Run Challenge program, I am extremely grateful for the valuable partnerships and relationships built with Major League Baseball and our affiliates.

Joe Torre

#13. Because as tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service ... I've seen a generation eager - impatient even - to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course.

Barack Obama

#14. It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

Adam Yauch

#15. I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.

Adam Yauch

#16. Human nature is water, not stone.

Marty Rubin

#17. I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.

Adam Yauch

#18. Everybody has a responsibility for what they put out into the world. Rather than trying to figure out what other people should be doing, work on your own interactions in the world and whatever influence they have. All of it has an effect.

Adam Yauch

#19. Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got a bit more introverted and spent a lot more time on my own reading. I would just go down to the esoteric bookstore and wander around.

Adam Yauch

#20. He still thinks that knowing why might help. He doesn't yet know that the reason will never be good enough.

Ally Condie

#21. I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

Adam Yauch

#22. And sometimes being mutilated can work to your advantage. All those people now with piercings and tattoos and brandings and scarification ... What I mean is, attention is attention.

Chuck Palahniuk

#23. I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a lot of harm.

Adam Yauch

#24. You wouldn't meet a Joe Frazier down today and then up tomorrow, said hello to big shots then ignore someone on the lower level; he was the most consistent human being. What you see is what you get.

George Foreman

#25. Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.

Roland Allen

#26. When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.

Adam Yauch

#27. Just keep putting out music. Don't think whether it's a hit or not and people will get you.

Adam Yauch

#28. That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.

Adam Yauch

#29. People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.

Adam Yauch

#30. When is cake ever for hunger? It's for flavor and, in this case, comfort.

Menna Van Praag

#31. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes

Adam Yauch

#32. I think every person has the ability to affect change ... through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people. We are constantly affecting the world.

Adam Yauch