David Mitchell Quotes

I am not a bat. ~Rephaim

A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.

A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.

My favorite Dylan song? I think it's 'Just Like a Woman.' It always makes me cry.

As much as Metallica rocked, they always had these song names... 'The Thing That Shouldn't Be'. 'The Chair That Wasn't There', you know?

I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano.

If I learned to play guitar it was so that I would have something to sing to, if I learned to write a song it was so that I would have something to sing. So the gut feeling you're talking about comes from singing and communicating the lyrics and what it is that we feel.

Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.

Nonexistence never hurt anyone. Existence hurts everyone.

Listen to the song of life.

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.

I am nothing, and not even that.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry.

..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've built my life around you." I think a good test to see if a human is actually a robot/android/cylon is to have them listen to this song lyric and study their reaction. If they don't cry, you should stab them through the heart. You will find a fusebox.

Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

We got a new song called 'Ashes in Your Mouth,' and it is NOT about a joint falling apart.

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.

I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it

While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.

I've always believed that there's an amazing number of things you can do through a rock'n'roll song and that you can do serious writing in a rock song if you can somehow do it without losing the beat.

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

Perhaps the thought of going to hell doesn't alarm you, because you don't believe in it. That may be your belief, but if hell exists, your lack of belief won't make it go away. Standing on a freeway and saying, "I don't believe in trucks" won't make the 18-wheeler disappear.

Words are what make the song. I get a personal vision about what the lyrics are about.

She couldn't make it untrue.