Frank Black quote: "I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge."

For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of reper...
FRANK BLACK

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by c...
FRANK BLACK

I can't tap into the naive, spastic playing that you do when you're young, although we occasionally ...
FRANK BLACK

My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to...
FRANK BLACK

I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all th...
FRANK BLACK

I did start down that path some time ago,
FRANK BLACK

I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is ...
FRANK BLACK

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to m...
FRANK BLACK

Some have called we rock and roll performers who never retire 'troubadours.' I enjoy this mi...
FRANK BLACK

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing f...
FRANK BLACK

I'm just trying to record as much as I can, ... It's like a lifelong obsession with rock music that ...
FRANK BLACK

We don't want to overstay our welcome. If we were gonna go on tour next summer, for example, we feel...
FRANK BLACK

I couldn't have asked for a better setup, even if it is my former shadow looming once again over me....
FRANK BLACK

I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don&...
FRANK BLACK

If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting s...
FRANK BLACK

People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't ha...
FRANK BLACK

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myse...
FRANK BLACK

She's gorgeous. She's got lips like Angelina Jolie.
FRANK BLACK

It's just, you gotta pay your dues if you want to sing the blues. Not that I've never paid dues in m...
FRANK BLACK

There's more to life than listening to rock music.
FRANK BLACK

I've made my records and I've done all the interviews. I've done lots of long tours. I&#...
FRANK BLACK

I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because ...
FRANK BLACK

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city o...
FRANK BLACK

They're so good. There are times when they're playing when it's just: 'Oh my gosh, these guys are li...
FRANK BLACK

I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not b...
FRANK BLACK

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, wh...
FRANK BLACK

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Gu...
FRANK BLACK

I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, i...
FRANK BLACK

I will be meeting with Bruce and Frank Warren to discuss the future,
FRANK BLACK

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.
FRANK BLACK

boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin?
FRANK

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
BLACK ELK

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
LEWIS BLACK

It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursui...
LEWIS BLACK

I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane b...
LEWIS BLACK

So you'll teach me?" Val asked.

Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you de...
HOLLY BLACK

Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in th...
LEWIS BLACK

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first conditio...
HUGO BLACK

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
BLACK ELK

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.
HOLLY BLACK

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
KAREN BLACK

I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
KAREN BLACK

If you can write it, I can be it.
KAREN BLACK

Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that...
JACK BLACK

I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. A...
JACK BLACK

I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or...
JACK BLACK

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can ...
JACK BLACK

My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
JACK BLACK

I really love being a weirdo who writes a lot of different things for a lot of different ages. I hav...
HOLLY BLACK

No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Mor...
CONRAD BLACK

I revise a lot while I'm drafting, often going back to the beginning again and again to revise b...
HOLLY BLACK

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a ...
CONRAD BLACK

The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But ...
HUGO BLACK

I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a ...
CLAUDIA BLACK

One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was t...
CLAUDIA BLACK

I think fees are going away.
BRIAN BLACK

Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, wa...
CONRAD BLACK

It was great to see him step up and make pitches.
BUD BLACK

I don't think these guys lose confidence. You'll find very few major league players lose confidence....
BUD BLACK

He has to continue to get over the little hurdles that are going to make him a big-league pitcher. I...
BUD BLACK

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the governme...
HUGO BLACK

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
HUGO BLACK

He gave her a smile that wasn’t really a smile at all. “Eh, it wouldn’t be so bad. I wouldn’...
HOLLY BLACK

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the ...
HUGO BLACK

I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madnes...
HOLLY BLACK

We're here tonight to remember one of the heroes of the Scottish culture, ... Cmdr. Montgomery Scott...
ALAN BLACK

It was a very tough region, very tough competition and a very good golf course.
ALAN BLACK

We're not going to go into mom and dad's kitchen, but we certainly shouldn't be having coaches promo...
ROGER BLACK

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
DAVE BLACK

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the ...
HUGO BLACK

I think Alan just wants to say that the treatment from Liverpool and all the Manchester United staff...
ALEX BLACK

Alan said when you look down and see your foot in that sort of condition your priorities suddenly go...
ALEX BLACK

It's likely these new-to-wireless people might be lower income, and pre-paid might actually be perfe...
ANDREW BLACK

From a Salt Lake standpoint right now, you guys have gotten a number of new flights over the past ca...
ANTHONY BLACK

Misogynist is a word used by women about men who are able to describe women directly and accurately ...
ROBERT BLACK

People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrail...
HOLLY BLACK

We're replacing two vans about 10 years old and (with) a ton of mileage, and one or the other has be...
BILL BLACK

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a par...
BLACK ELK

A good nation I will make live.
BLACK ELK

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captu...
CLINT BLACK

This was a magnificent company that the people who have seized it and used it as a platform from whi...
CONRAD BLACK

Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbi...
HOLLY BLACK

Are you ready to have your mind blown apart by the most awesome show in the universe. ... Tonight is...
JACK BLACK

The freeze in '89 killed them all graveyard dead.
DAVE BLACK

I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a ...
CLAUDIA BLACK

My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm ...
CLAUDIA BLACK

led to complete subversion of the blacks by the whites.
BLACK PANTHER

money solves all your problems. don't make money your problem
RAYAN BLACK

Fantasy football is out of control,
LEWIS BLACK

If you want to elect Bush, that's the prick that I'm gonna yell about. If you want to elect John Ker...
LEWIS BLACK

I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radi...
CLINT BLACK

Some people are stupid. so stupid, like real morons. But look, that's not against the Law
RAYAN BLACK

We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must...
HUGO BLACK

I wanted to be in love like in the storybooks and songs and ballads. Love that hits you like a light...
HOLLY BLACK

Down a path worn into the woods, past a stream and a hollowed-out log full of pill bugs and termites...
HOLLY BLACK

When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would...
LEWIS BLACK

The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and can...
HUGO BLACK

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and fri...
BLACK KETTLE

I've never been one to throw clubs, break clubs, or use bad language on the golf course. I'v...
LUCAS BLACK

Bundled services platforms enable banks to strengthen their roles as lenders and create a sophistica...
DAVE BLACK

Every mobile-home park not zoned mobile home is more vulnerable to redevelopment than one that is zo...
ELIZABETH BLACK

At the September council meeting a fifth officer was approved. Since that meeting, the department ha...
DON BLACK

Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.
HOLLY BLACK

The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, ...
CONRAD BLACK

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.
SHANE BLACK

fate is unavoidable. but it works at a certain speed and according to a time schedule. remember that
RAYAN BLACK

Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase."
I slug down the last of the coffee and get u...
HOLLY BLACK

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
HOLLY BLACK

the
greatest threat to the internal security of the country.
BLACK PANTHER

We are politically realistic and realize a bill would not pass. We just don't feel a constitutional ...
STEVEN BLACK

Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.'
The old man lau...
HOLLY BLACK

I don't feel prolific. I feel like I'm plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope t...
HOLLY BLACK

I am not very good at sticking to outlines, and I double back all the time to revisit scenes and cha...
HOLLY BLACK

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I...
BLACK ELK

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.
CILLA BLACK

It took forever for me to get work because I was a political comic, and now it's become good bus...
LEWIS BLACK

The difference in lung function between the highest and lowest quintiles of vitamin D is substantial...
PETER BLACK

I didn't even breathe on the final lap. That's how close it was. I knew if I had breathed, (St. Jose...
OWEN BLACK

I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
HOLLY BLACK

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
HOLLY BLACK

'Not drinking?' Collin asked coolly.

'I only drink the blood of virgins,' Logan quipped...
LIA BLACK

Without Your Opponent, You are no Victor.
ANAJO BLACK

Gas prices are the classic pocketbook issue for the average person and the average family, and these...
CHARLIE BLACK

When you don't know what you're searching for, you have to look absolutely everywhere.
HOLLY BLACK

You've got a Republican White House; you've got Republicans in control of Congress. It should be sm...
CHRIS BLACK

There's an awful lot of people that still haven't gotten into the category and we ask ourselves the ...
ANDREW BLACK

The biggest problem is that the Democrats will not go along. They will keep their current primary ca...
CHARLIE BLACK

a complete vindication of the defendants, and exposure of their persecutors.
CONRAD BLACK

In 2005, the growth of Software-as-a-Service led many organizations to ask themselves three question...
ARCHIE BLACK

I had more material on weather than anyone else, I guess, ... back when I was traveling a lot [on th...
LEWIS BLACK

There is still a lot of work to be done and we are not good enough against the top sides.
ANDY BLACK

The Fidelity alliance will significantly enhance our distribution footprint.
STEVE BLACK

To be or not to be, fucked up on whiskey, that is the question.
ROBERT BLACK

As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic.
LEWIS BLACK

There is only one place to go, to find out if a girl is a true blonde, redhead, or brunette.
ROBERT BLACK

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but ...
HOLLY BLACK

Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying
HOLLY BLACK

I'm a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, ...
CILLA BLACK

We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we're stripped bare. Being infected, being a ...
HOLLY BLACK

One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.
HOLLY BLACK

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle h...
HOLLY BLACK

He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.
HOLLY BLACK

You are more dangerous than daybreak.
HOLLY BLACK

Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
HOLLY BLACK

Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the a...
CILLA BLACK

But reality television is here to stay.
CILLA BLACK

I don't think anybody's leaving.
CHARLES BLACK

It's naive all of a sudden to say that the White House just realized that there's going to be a toug...
CHARLIE BLACK

I'm not sure there's a big win available. You've got to hit a bunch of singles.
CHARLIE BLACK

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not ...
CONRAD BLACK

I'm quite subdued, believe it or not. I switch it on for the camera.
CILLA BLACK

No matter what, your parents are going to worry about you. I had a tour bus, and my mother still tho...
LEWIS BLACK

It's nice to have the companionship on the ride, too. An hour in the car alone gets pretty quite.
DAWN BLACK

Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are ...
CONRAD BLACK

Highly complex numbers like the Comma of Pythagoras, Pi and Phi (sometimes called the Golden Proport...
JONATHAN BLACK

If the receiver is tight, you play an outside technique -- do not backpeddle. We got beat and the ba...
DAVID BLACK

The whole nuclear-arms-control and non-proliferation policy of the nuclear powers is a fraud: The Am...
CONRAD BLACK

When I was growing up, kids wouldn't come out to my place because I was too far out in the country.
DAVE BLACK

The vicar of Christ is an individual, not an electorate.
CONRAD BLACK

A lot of people are concerned about security. It just makes their house stand out more. It makes the...
DEREK BLACK

It may be a neighbor, a granddaughter, or a service provider in the community. We may be moving slow...
DIANE BLACK

I've had people pulling their names off my bill because this is going on. I'm working real hard to h...
DIANE BLACK

There has to be some cooperative effort.
DONALD BLACK

Everything went smooth as glass, ... The only problem we had was having enough food at the cookout f...
DONALD BLACK

The perimeter of the playground will remain as it was, ... I do not anticipate any other changes to ...
DONALD BLACK

With the exponential growth of the Net we were able to reach many thousands of people that we otherw...
DON BLACK

They had to put a screw in there to attach that chip in the elbow. I talked to Dan often and suggest...
DREW BLACK

He was one of the white Democrats who started out as one of the conventional segregationists and the...
EARL BLACK

It deprives the Republicans of a very experienced vote-counter, someone who's been very successful s...
EARL BLACK

I thought he was fantastic today. He glides by people as if they are not there, his first touch was ...
ERIC BLACK

I don't believe it was proper or ethical for over 70 interviews to be granted to the media prior to ...
FREDA BLACK

I think the defense, just like the prosecution did early on, is trying the case in the national medi...
FREDA BLACK

I believe a case should not be tried in the news media, that a case should be tried - any case shoul...
FREDA BLACK

break up in its final moments.
GEORGE BLACK

Last November, an engine was removed from another airplane (and was) put through some degree of main...
GEORGE BLACK

The idea is just-in-time financing.
HARRY BLACK

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.
BLACK ELK

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have bee...
BLACK ELK

[Dr. Ira Black, chairman of the neuroscience department at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in...
IRA BLACK

You're asking me to choose between two children, the one that pays more and the one that I secretly ...
JACK BLACK

Little girl, you could wrap my cock in duct tape, and I'll still make you see God.
LILLY BLACK

It's business as usual. We don't want to get away from what we've been doing so far. It's certainly ...
JAMIE BLACK

I knew that he had great numbers in college. Still, it's a tough assessment when you look at those n...
JAMIE BLACK

We knew he was going to bring a lot to the table. He plays on the power play and the penalty kill. H...
JAMIE BLACK

We have to come out more aggressive, and hit the body harder than we did last time. We got down big ...
JAMIE BLACK

We're always willing to help.
JEFF BLACK

We've been concentrating on the power play. Right now, we have the right power-play combination.
JAMES BLACK

everyone gets one for the cost of living - even school board members.
JAMES BLACK

Kaye watched as he calmed somewhat, thinking that she should stop trying to anticipate what was goin...
HOLLY BLACK

I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was someth...
HOLLY BLACK

There is something of yours that i would like to return to you . . . He leaned across the distance b...
HOLLY BLACK

As the last Seelie left the hall, Roiben, self-declared King of the Unseelie Court, nearly fell into...
HOLLY BLACK

You're not the way everyone says you are," Kaye said, looking at him so fiercely that he couldn't me...
HOLLY BLACK

Recent work using neural stem cells has indicated that stem cell transplantation to the injured spin...
IRA BLACK

It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.
ROBIN BLACK

We hope it will make a big difference in the health and the safety for our students.
JEANNE BLACK

These colors don't have a universal appeal and completely alienated their core baby-boomer customer,
JENNIFER BLACK

First it started off with two guys, like one punch thrown, and the other guys started fighting back ...
JAMAR BLACK

[It charged that Mr. Newman had falsely and maliciously written in his 2004 autobiography,] Here Be ...
LORD BLACK

That's so Andy always has plenty of hot water on hand.
LYNNE BLACK

I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.

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I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.

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