Jonathan Richman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.
-- Jonathan Richman

#Friday #College #Band
They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.
-- Jonathan Richman

#Party #Boston #Tea
Roadrunner, roadrunner, going faster miles an hour. Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop, with the radio on. I'm in love with Massachusetts and the neon when it's cold outside. And the highway when it's late at night. Got the radio on, I'm like the roadrunner.
-- Jonathan Richman

#Travel #Past #Night
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.
-- Jonathan Richman
I will wait for Cleopatra, for I know my time must come. And I'm getting ready for wherever she'll be at-tra, cause I'm getting stronger now and not so dumb.
-- Jonathan Richman

#Waiting #Dumb #Stronger
Playing shows and making records keeps been getting easier and more fun.
-- Jonathan Richman

#Fun #Records #Easier
Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.
-- Jonathan Richman

#Long #Sometimes #Feels

I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called Fridays Fingertip Fetish. It became so popular that a nail polish company approached me, and Fingertip Fetish was born.
I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!
Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday.
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability.
I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.
Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.
My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." â€” Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

Jonathan Richman famous quotes

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