Good Quotes

Anti-Semitism may be a good starter, but it is a bad sticker.

It is a very fine thing to refuse an invitation, but it is a good thing to wait till you get it first.

Life is a whole, and good and ill must be accepted together.

These are the qualifications of a good Party man-you must know how to put your Party before yourself, and you must know the occasions when to put nation before Party.

I have always thought that it ought to be the main end of English statecraft over a long period of years to cultivate good relations with the United States.

A good thing never ends.

People overestimate the Rolling Stones. I don't think the Stones areas good as people think. Obviously I think the Stones are a very good band.

When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced.

If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good.

I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.

Man, it was a great place then. I love going back to Chicago. Man, it was a good amount of fortune. That Steve and I came along when we did, and got into the Chicago folk scene. It was kind of all ready for us.

I knew Fred since I was 14 and was first going to the Old Town School, Fred used to work part-time in the store. Every time I wrote a song Fred would turn on his really good high-class tape recorder, reel-to-reel, and record it. So he's got recordings of me on guitar singing all my songs in his apartment long before I ever recorded for a recording company. I never found out what happened to the tapes.

As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you.

All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all I ever wanted. Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock 'n' roll band. They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me. And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that's the trouble.

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

One good man, Oh ain't much, honey ain't much, It's only everything...

Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren't going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.

For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.

Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.