Neal Barnard Quotes

The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.

I'm a funny person, but I take my music seriously.

Puccini is my favorite composer.

I write songs, I play a guitar and that's it.

I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.

I'll trust an attorney before I'll trust a doctor.

I flatter myself to even imagine I could have had a medical practice. There's no way. I'm not scientific or disciplined enough, lots of things.

I want to be out there learning from others, helping to provide insight whenever I can, though I don't consider myself an expert on anything.

I wasn't talented as a musician.

My music, you know I'm not lying about anything, and the way you can tell is how in-depth I can get about everything I'm talking about.

Mitski is an influence to me as a writer.

I can't help it if I stretch the truth, not if that's the way it happened.

After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life.

I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.

I don't think films in and of themselves create radical change, but I think a film can contribute to people's understanding and deepen their understanding and help contribute to a shift.

When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since they were in third grade."

My father shared the ethos of many of the beat writers and was a friend of Allen Ginsberg. Probably for 25 years of my father's life, He had been an itinerant piano player and so traveled the road with bands and that sort of thing.

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.

I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to - maybe more so, in some cases - in addition to the artists.

I knew a lot of my musicians used to take coke. I never saw them. They would hide it from me, so I wasn't really aware of it. Creatively, I don't think it was that great.

I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she have a song called "Superman"?

It ought to be done by the elected officials themselves because they have the credibility. And it's not like we aren't willing to help.

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.