Yauch Quotes & Sayings

It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism. — Adam Yauch

Yauch was great at lacking fear. — Michael Diamond

Old Man: The impulse which moves a person to do things - The only impulse that ever moves a person to do things
Young Man: The only one! Is there but one?
O.M. That is all
Y.M. Well, certainly that is a strange doctrine. What is the sole impulse that ever moves a person to do a thing?
O.M. The impulse to CONTENT HIS OWN SPIRIT - the NECESSITY of contenting his own spirit and WINNING ITS APPROVAL. — Mark Twain

It's pretty easy to see that ... wealth doesn't really equal happiness. — Adam Yauch

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit. — Adam Yauch

There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend. — Bob Ross

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes — Adam Yauch

I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, because we were already making punk records. We were a punk band. And I kind of thought, that's crazy. — Adam Yauch

I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a lot of harm. — Adam Yauch

I won't sell my songs for no TV Ad — Adam Yauch

There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through. — Billy Joe Saunders

I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything. — Adam Yauch

If I feel like I've done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace. — Adam Yauch

People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people. — Adam Yauch

I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end. — Adam Yauch

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. — Bell Hooks

Just keep putting out music. Don't think whether it's a hit or not and people will get you. — Adam Yauch

I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way. — Adam Yauch

That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way. — Adam Yauch

It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face 'cause I love to do it — Adam Yauch

During the last week of her father's life, Blanca stayed home with him. 'I didn't bathe. I didn't sleep. I sat in the bed with him in the living room. And we were communicating all the time. I kept thinking, and it's more beautiful in Spanish, but I wanted to bottle his breathing. — Kevin Renner

When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place. — Adam Yauch

I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black. — E.W. Howe

I think every person has the ability to affect change ... through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people. We are constantly affecting the world. — Adam Yauch

Many people are smarter than their stupid bosses. — Toba Beta

I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked. — Adam Yauch

Everybody has a responsibility for what they put out into the world. Rather than trying to figure out what other people should be doing, work on your own interactions in the world and whatever influence they have. All of it has an effect. — Adam Yauch

You need not regret lost years if you have learned great things. — Jack Cady

Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got a bit more introverted and spent a lot more time on my own reading. I would just go down to the esoteric bookstore and wander around. — Adam Yauch

Yauch was a gifted MC. — Michael Diamond

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin