Andrew W.K. famous quotes

Your love is the ultimate love that empowers all your efforts, a true love for what is indestructibly and perpetually you.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Love Is #Empowering #Effort

I have met people that said when their friend was dying, they made them promise that their funeral would be a party without people sitting in silence and in sadness. They want to celebrate their life and the life they lived and I try to adhere to that more.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Party #Sadness #People

If no one else has ever told you this before, I will tell it to you one more time and hope you believe it and never forget it for the rest of your life: You deserve to be treated well.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Believe #Never Forget #More Time

I've always been stimulated by the sense of challenge.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Challenges

Festivals are unique. They can be the best of times or the worst. You're not playing to the converted. But those are the best shows - to see if you can make new friends and entertain them.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Unique #Festivals #New Friends

Sometimes you have to open yourself to the random possibilities of, I guess, destiny.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Destiny #Sometimes #Possibility

You always have to take responsibility for the choices you made. Once you can come to that truth, it's a very satisfying and relieving feeling. You don't have to fight anymore, you just get to do.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Responsibility #Fighting #Choices

When people do things to make your dream come true, you owe them in one way or another. Everyone understands that for every dream that comes true for you, there might not be a dream coming true for someone else. When we trade one wish for another, there's a price to pay. It works like that
-- Andrew W.K.

#Dream #People #Wish

I really like dark music and darkness in general and cynicism and pessimism and negativity because it allows you to create an even bigger contrast.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Dark #Negativity #Pessimism

The music is just very specifically [designed] to get you energized. That's the great thing about those situations: I have no choice. It completely takes over your body and pushes you, like it was designed to do. I'm constantly surrounded by music, energy, and experiences that put me in that state of cheer.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Cheer #Choices #Over You

In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo. I like that entertainment has this usefulness - that it's ultimately trying to make a bunch of people feel something, and to think about life and be able to use things that were so simple and direct but potentially have a really powerful effect.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Art #Powerful #Thinking

I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences of my childhood being based around the piano. On piano, it is very easy to move between major and minor and to really see how it looks and to feel how it sounds.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Moving #Keys #Piano

Everything is always going through changes in terms of attitudes or mood.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Attitude #Mood #Term

We do what we like, and we like what we do.
-- Andrew W.K.

I have listened to college radio quite a lot. I never went to college, so actually the college radio station is sort of like the closest I got to some kind of college experience.
-- Andrew W.K.

#College #Radio #Kind

There's no drug that I would never take again.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Drug

Someone who claims to know what happens after death is probably someone we should be suspicious of -- they might be a ghost.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Might #Ghost #Claims

I feel very emotional and party.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Party #Emotional #Feels

At least once in their life, every man should feel what it's like to wear high heels.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Men #High Heels #Should

I think J.S. Bach's music stands among humankind's greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach's music is not only as good as music gets, but also as good as it gets, period -- as good as existence, reality, life and the world.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Reality #Thinking #Accomplishment

It is OK to be happy in life. Even through all the strife, maybe especially during times of great pain and suffering. We still have to be able to stay close to that joy because we can't save the world in a bad mood.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Pain #Happy Life #Joy

If pizza brings you joy, then by all means, love that pizza like your life depends on it. Because it does.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Mean #Joy #Doe

Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has clearly never spent their money on pizza.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Pizza