Paul Kantner Quotes

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

You just can't control your art in the future.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Life itself is so surprising, a predictable story is unsatisfying.

What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

In football, sometimes things happen that are outside of your control, leading the club to make decisions.

You just can't get surprised when you get surprised, because weird stuff just comes over the transom all the time, and it's not necessarily anything that you've planned for or anticipated.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

Real life is crazier than fiction.

I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

Who likes surprises? Nobody I know likes surprises. But facts change on the ground.

It is impossible to foresee or define the extent and variety of national exigencies.

I don't like to make predictions, because my life's been pretty unpredictable so far.

Nobody knows what the future holds.

As far as I'm aware, you can't tell if something is going to be successful. Brilliant scripts often don't get picked up, and terrible ones do all the time!

Life has many twists and turns.

Life can't be always be stable always right. There are things which are out of your control.

Life is so unpredictable.

People's lives often don't turn out as they expect.

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

I'm not surprised by much in this league. You see and hear all kinds of stuff, you never know what can happen.