Out of Step Quotes

Look, not embracing the 'Today' show is soooo yesterday.

I am no longer fit for these times. We are in a new era to which I do not belong.

My views on music, and life in general, are completely out of step with everything that's going on. I've always been out of step. The only thing that interests me is history, reviewing the past and making something out of it.

I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.

In a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who. ...It seems the modern consensus of enlightened people that his name should be used in polite society only when cursing.... [P]oliticians are often eager to associate themselves personally with you-know-who, even -- and especially -- when they rather flagrantly ignore his injunctions.... He was out of step then, and he is out of step now. He is eternally out of step, and eternally more powerful than those who keep in step. You know who I mean.

I think the United States is way behind the times.

No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

I'm old school. I'm not the fastest guy or the quickest guy.

I watch a happy person doing stand-up, and I go, "What the hell is this? This person's happy!" You need internal conflict. You need the guy to be out of step with society. It's a tool for comedy.