William Eggleston Quotes

Vodka is kind of a hobby.

If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves

I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don't get any more work.

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

As for me, tough duty though it may be, I continue to do my part for the commercial recreation industry. Fishing, boating, tennis, golf, running, hunting, and all of this. Horseshoes. It's tough duty. Somebody has to do it, and I'm going to keep on.

I've always had an urge to feed my need to have fun and feel free. I don't see any interesting alternatives.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.

I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.

Play is where life lives

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.

Would I were in an alehouse in London.

Most people spend their lives on their endeavors, and I get the privilege to have been doing this since I was five. I get to go play and have fun and entertain people.

The important thing is to be drunk.

One of the reasons I sing so much about smoking or drinking isn't about the addiction, but more so that I'm trying to let people have a good time at my shows and forget their problems. Relax and enjoy. There's not certain religions or politics sold on them. Just come out, have a beer, have a laugh, good energy from stage and have a good time.

A holiday isn't a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

Know what the Taliban leaders like to do for fun? Just sit around and get bombed.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

I'd be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn't happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking.

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

I would lock myself in my room and drink a case of Corona and smoke a load of pot.