Jimmy John Liautaud Quotes

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

I met someone with a title on my first day, Baronet von Something, and I thought: 'Look at me, I've really grafted. Who are these people who have just waltzed into Oxford? I don't want to hang out with those people. They're nothing like me.'

Golf is elitist, it's stuffy, it's exclusive and I hate that because I am not that and I was never welcomed in and I'm still not welcomed in.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

I always prided myself on being apart from the ruling class. I think it's always important, not just in Washington but in life, to be able to able to balance your sense of belonging with what it's like to be someone who doesn't belong.

The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.

When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.

Senators will associate only with men of their own class; and thus become strangers to the condition of the common people.

The fundamental error of Europe has been to confine the light of knowledge to the wealthy and great, while the humble and the depressed have been as sedulously excluded from its participation as the wretched criminal, immured in a dungeon, is from the light of Heaven.

I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.

I was a paperboy first, then I worked at a movie theater. But I was a caddie at a golf club, which I didn't like. The people were so bougie and racist at times.

I am not too interested in leaving the street people and joining the Establishment. I prefer street folks.

If too many people feel excluded from the system and cannot access its benefits, they will ultimately rebel against it.

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.

I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?