John Lurie's Quotes

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

Acting scares me.

But, you know, I'd be happy just making music.

I guess I just want everything to be available immediately.

I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.

I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.

If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.

I don't cry America. I do not cry. That was a once in a lifetime event. I do not cry, do you understand? I don't cry, okay?

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

If my life was a song it would be, 'It ain't that easy being green' from Sesame Street.

In my spare time I like to sleep.

The music I love to sing would have to be gospel - it just uplifts me, it takes me to a really good place.

The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics.

I hope that America sees that I'm a fun loving guy and I hope they see the light of God in me, if that makes sense at all. This is a great platform, this is a great blessing that I have, and I I just want them to see something in me that says, 'Everything's going to be okay'.

I prefer to sing in the shower vs. the car. The shower is just steam, you know, its just you, and nature, and no clothing. You know, there's nothing separating you. It's just you, and the voice - you, and the water.

You're going to be entertained. But when you finish hearing me singing, you're going to want to keep going, and you're going to keep believing and that's the kind of artist I am.

The Koch brothers tend to give to right-leaning and libertarian causes. Koch money was instrumental, for example, in founding the Cato Institute and the Libertarian Party.

I'd always rather be lucky than smart.

The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.

The Internet has leveled the investment playing field.

The need for empowering investors to have information on the way their own money is invested is not going away.