DJ Jazzy Jeff Quotes

No one has ever bought me underwear, and I'm a little bummed about that. Maybe it's not such a big deal any more.

The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.

Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.

All the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas.

My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.

It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.

pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer, the onion rings soggy. Looking around the place, though, I failed to spot a single customer banging on a tray or complaining to a waitress. So I shut up and finished my food. Expect nothing, get nothing.

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

For my 21st birthday, I think my mother wanted to give me a watch, or something, you know, some kind of traditional thing. And I said, "Well, if you're going to buy me something, there's a Gibson Melody Maker guitar advertised in the paper for 60 dollars. Do you think I could have that?" And I think that she was very disappointed that at 21 I was still messing around with that sort of thing. She didn't understand what it was all about. But now she understands it, and likes it.

Friends will write me letters. They run out of room on the front of the letter. They write 'over' on the bottom of the letter. Like I'm that much of a moron. Like I need that there. Because if it wasn't there, I'd get to the bottom of the page: 'And so Kathy and I went shopping and we--' That's the craziest thing! I don't know why she would just end it that way.

Picture all the money that I've gotten off tours. Now picture me plotting for more.

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.

I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.

I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?

The sign on the bar said: 'girls- topless, bottomless', I went inside and there was nobody there!

I have no sympathy for the people who went to Charlie Sheen's show and were disappointed. That didn't seem very organized! That guy's all over the map!

The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.

Imagination is a powerful deceiver.

You got your glory and you paid for it all, you take your pension in loneliness and alcohol.

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.

I'm sorry, I guess my company leaves a lot to be desired.

The fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.