Live Quotes

"I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway"

Evan Parker, Musician

"Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12"

Lucille Roybal-Allard

"I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

"Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there"

Rita Mae Brown, Writer

"As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road"

Trish Stratus, Entertainer

"No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year"

Sebastian Bach, Musician

"People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix"

Sebastian Bach, Musician

"It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not"

John McGahern, Writer

"I live way out in the country, in truck-country"

John Romero, Inventor

"Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors"

Herbert Kaufman, Writer

"You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you"

David Ogden Stiers, Actor

"People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors"

Geraldine Ferraro, Politician

"I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian"

Patricia Highsmith, Novelist

"But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people"

Isabelle Huppert, Actress

"I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need"

Susan Sarandon, Actress

"My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces"

Rem Koolhaas, Architect

"The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so"

Tony Bennett, Musician

"I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live"

Rip Torn, Actor

"Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?"

Bruce Willis, Actor

"I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self"

Emily Mortimer, Actress

"If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today"

John Sexton, Educator

"I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good"

John McGahern, Writer

"I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"The other thing that has made playing live for me more enjoyable is the audience. I never knew I had such heartfelt, loving fans"

Michael Schenker, Musician

"We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies"

Paul Robeson, Actor

"I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk"

Olympia Dukakis, Actress

"Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story"

John McGahern, Writer

"But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader"

John McGahern, Writer

"Whatever its other limitations, the Big Apple and those who live there make room for their dogs and cats, take good care of them and abide by the rules made necessary by a huge population"

Nick Clooney, Politician

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