Followill Quotes & Sayings

When I found music I thought, that's what I want to do, but the idea of it being a job never crossed my mind. I just wanted to be good enough to pick up a guitar at a party, or if I saw a girl I liked, to work up the courage to play a song. — Caleb Followill

For Faith is the beginning and the end is love, and God is the two of them brought into unity. After these comes whatever else makes up a Christian gentleman. — Ignatius Of Antioch

I called and called, but I can't get through,
Said he's on his own, but his own is you.. — Caleb Followill

Mr. O'Donnell was at the library counter, performing the sort of grim rituals librarians perform with index cards and stumpy pencils and those rubber stamps with columns of rotating numbers. "Ms. Auerbach! What will it be today? Camus? Cervantes?" "Actually I'm looking for a book of poetry by Emily Dickinson"
He paused somberly, toying with the twirled tip of his mustache. No matter how seriously librarians are engaged in their work, they are always glad to be interrupted when the theme is books. It makes no difference to them how simple the search is or how behind on time either of you might be running - they consider all queries scrupulously. They love to have their knowledge tested. They lie in wait, they will not be rushed. — Hilary Thayer Hamann

You can't make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in — Caleb Followill

I had a long distance relationship going while we were writing the album so a lot of it is about that constant struggle - you look up at the moon and wonder if that person is looking at it too. I was trying to write love songs that weren't sappy Ben Affleck movie songs, but kind of a ... man's love songs — Caleb Followill

My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon. — Hillary Scott

The gradations are infinite and the silliest mistake of all is to define people by their material possessions. It's even worse if people define themselves by money. When — Rita Mae Brown

Behind every great man is a good brother. — Nathan Followill

When were you born, who are your parents, where did you grow up? None of us earns these things. These things were given to us. So when we strip away all of our luck and our privilege, and we consider where we'd be without them, it becomes much easier to see someone who's poor and say, "That could be me." And that's empathy. — Melinda Gates

When we started, we were from the South and we looked the part. Plus there was sex and violence on our first album. People immediately attached themselves to it, especially outside of America, because they see the South as a mythical place. — Caleb Followill

At the end of the day, we have to write music that makes us happy and the day that we stop loving what we do ... we'll quit. — Caleb Followill

There is always a fear that i'll be in Europe somewhere, and this little blue-eyed kid would come over to me with his mom and go, "dada, dada". — Caleb Followill

The breeze brought us a faint sound, as of a distant rat, a huge and mystic rat, gnawing, maybe, at the horizon! — Anne Bosworth Greene

At least we got to see the worst haircut since 1984 try to steal the spotlight from lovely Taylor Swift. — Nathan Followill

Record stores are great because it's good to physically get your hands on the music instead of downloading. It's always better to get the artwork too. — Nathan Followill

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves. — William Hazlitt

Life rewards the dogged, not the qualified. — Bear Grylls

The kind of churches we played in, it wasn't about how good you could play your instrument, it was about how much you enjoyed playing your instrument. — Nathan Followill

I don't care what you write man, just make sure you make us sound sexy. Say that we looked like we'd just come from the beach and that our bodies were glistening. Say we got no hair on our chests. Anything so the girls will like us. — Nathan Followill

I always loved cooking, from an early age. I kind of wanted to be a chef. — Caleb Followill