Lanegan Mark Quotes & Sayings

If tears were liquor/ I'd have drunk myself sick, — Mark Lanegan

Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

I think a myth is created from truth. — Mark Lanegan

The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing. — Mark Lanegan

Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only. — Thomas A Kempis

The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease. — Illinois Jacquet

I am doing everything to be fit - like not eating oily food, doing yoga, gymming and consulting my doc. — Suresh Raina

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere. — Mark Lanegan

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification. — Roman Jakobson

I think when you're young and you get together with a group of guys who think like you and you start to make something that moves you as a group of people and you have a common goal, that's an exciting time. — Mark Lanegan

The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range. — Mark Lanegan

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it. — Mark Lanegan

When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously. — Mark Lanegan

I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person. — Mark Lanegan

Basically I'm always singing about the same stuff whether it's in a loud or quiet outfit. — Mark Lanegan

You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier. — Mark Lanegan

You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first. — Mark Lanegan

I've always been a fan of album covers with no writing on them and have used them a lot in my own groups. — Mark Lanegan

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life. — Mark Lanegan

I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing ... well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it. — Mark Lanegan

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not. — Mark Lanegan

Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to. — Mark Lanegan

How do you manage to see the best in everyone, Willa, but only the worst in yourself? — Tessa Bailey

The ability to play with different people is infinitely fascinating to me. — Mark Lanegan

There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child. — Mark Lanegan

You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours. — Mark Lanegan

What are called opinions "on the left" and "on the right" in the media represent only a limited spectrum of debate, which reflects the range of needs of private power - but there's essentially nothing beyond those "acceptable" positions. So what the media do, in effect, is to take the set of assumptions which express the basic ideas of the propaganda system, whether about the Cold War or the economic system or the "national interest" and so on, and then present a range of debate within that framework - so the debate only enhances the strength of the assumptions, ingraining them in people's minds as the entire possible spectrum of opinion that there is. — Noam Chomsky

The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business. — Mark Lanegan

I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time. — Mark Lanegan