Klinghoffer Quotes & Sayings

It's a weird thing to have a Hall of Fame for rock. It's weird that I spent years worshiping the Cure, and here's the Chili Peppers, and then one gets in one doesn't. It's ridiculous. In my heart of hearts, it means nothing to me, but I do understand it means a lot to other people. It creates positivity. — Josh Klinghoffer

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility. — Edward Norton

I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures. — Josh Klinghoffer

No authentic Messiah would inspire a religion that ended up calling upon the Jews to reject the manifest meaning of Sinai. It is really that simple. — David Klinghoffer

The soul cannot be seen in a biological laboratory, any more than pain can be seen on an operating table. — Fulton J. Sheen

I always like to say that the music I'd like to make is somewhere between Pan Sonic and Scott Walker. But I don't sing anything like Scott Walker. — Josh Klinghoffer

In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of life, we have even allowed it to multiply. — David Klinghoffer

Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel. — Josh Klinghoffer

If you tell anyone what I just told you, I'll call The Mob. I know some of them, you know."
"Bullshit."
I shrugged. "Believe what you want. — Jamie McGuire

Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can. — Josh Klinghoffer

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music. — Josh Klinghoffer

I just like playing music and doing it with people that I care about. It doesn't really matter where. It's like, 'Why don't we just play piano in a small bar? Why do we want to make an arena full of people happy?' — Josh Klinghoffer

I love Valentine's Day. When you're a kid everyone gets a Valentine. It's like 'TO TIM, NICE PANTS, LOVE SCOTT'. It's Valentines galore! — Mike Birbiglia

Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates: my pure image of a band. — Josh Klinghoffer

The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families. — Josh Klinghoffer

I don't think there should be a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, period. — Josh Klinghoffer

Because in a split second, it's gone. — Ayrton Senna

The only thing I've ever wanted to do is really make people happy, offer some sort of positivity with music that I've written. The Chili Peppers do that for people. They're already established. I still want something that came out of me, and out of my heart. — Josh Klinghoffer

Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate actors
malleable entities like ethnicities, for example
are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere. — Ken Jennings

Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy. — Alan Bennett

The world is aware how jealously the Jewish community guards the Holocaust, both as a memory and a weapon. — David Klinghoffer

As an actor, you're like, 'Yeah, I want that phone call from Peter Jackson saying, 'You're my first choice for Thorin Oakenshield.' — Richard C. Armitage