Good Quotes

You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

But most good movies have a gun in them.

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

All my good movies, nobody sees.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.

I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

I think I made good movies.

It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.

I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.

When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.

To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.

Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.