Flansburgh Quotes & Sayings

I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music. — Giuseppe Verdi

Look, up in the sky! It's the sky! — John Flansburgh

I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia. — Alberto Manguel

In an interview John [Linnell] said, 'At a certain point you just get tired of the way the other person breathes,' and I took that pretty hard because I, personally, am infatuated with the way John breathes. — John Flansburgh

Just ask the animals, and they will teach you. Ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you." Job 12:7, NLT — David J. Brady

I wrote a thirty-second song that I couldn't finish for a year. — John Flansburgh

Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder. - Gandalf — J.R.R. Tolkien

Worlds going to hell anyway, have a good time. — John Flansburgh

That's what I call 'Guiliani Time', my friends. 'We've got a problem. Let's kill it.' — John Flansburgh

In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature. — Jean Klein

Have you heard Alanis Morisette trying to play the harmonica? She doesn't know how to play the harmonica. Well guess what, Alanis, I INVENTED the 'don't-know-how-to-play-harmonica-harmonica-solo.' — John Flansburgh

A leader is one who ... Has more faith in people than they do, and ... who holds opportunities open long enough for their competence to re-emerge. — Margaret J. Wheatley

It's hard to tell a shallow person that they should care more about the feelings of the awkward and the alienated. — John Flansburgh

Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency.
What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever? — Edmond Jabes

For every great thing we did, there is a very public moment of falling on our faces. But everything that came through us as a band was a distinct vision of R.E.M. — Michael Stipe