Frere Jones Quotes & Sayings

To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator. — Agnes Varda

What arises in our experience is much less important than how we relate to what arises in our experience. — Sharon Salzberg

The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies. — Sasha Frere-Jones

I make an attempt to do different kinds of films. There's no such formula for guaranteed success. — Katrina Kaif

Eminem found a legendary voucher in the form of Dr. Dre. He also perfected a unique performance style: as Sasha Frere-Jones wrote in "Haiku for Eminem" after the release of The Marshall Mathers LP, "The way you sound black/when you are conversating/but white when you rap. — Matthew Gasteier

The instructor was a man of middle age, in his early fifties; his name was Archer Sloane, and he came to his task of teaching with a seeming disdain and contempt, as if he perceived between his knowledge and what he could say a gulf so profound that he would make no effort to close it. — John Edward Williams

The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling records. — Sasha Frere-Jones

Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power. — Kevin O'Leary

Citibank had nothing to do with getting reelected. — Bill Janklow

I was happiest, frankly, when I had a day job and then I went and was in my band that I never, ever had dreams of making money, ever. — Sasha Frere-Jones

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not. — Christopher Atkins

My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped my thinking more than the work of any critic. — Sasha Frere-Jones

I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers. — Agnes Varda

Benji usually tries to match his hair with his underwear, and you know how he had the pink hair for a while well we caught him in a pink thong one day! — Joel Madden

I think that rather than saying that Occupy Wall Street has died, we can say that they're in the process of understanding what the long march through alternative institutions might mean. — Henry Giroux

Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds. It is the tinkling harp of water droplets; a moist breath whistling through willow reeds; a pattering beat background to the mourner's melody. Rain is a soft song of compassion for the brokenhearted. — Richelle E. Goodrich

-- Buddhism needs its fucking Nietzsche -- — Evan Dara

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

One must measure and conduct one's life on its own terms. — Henry Grunwald

What is the electric field of a room charged with questions? — Jennifer Recchio