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The real question is what to live for. And I can’t answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance for me to write. Art for art’s sake, corny as that sounds.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who’d banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny.

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

The most obvious thing you can’t do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it’s done right – like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there’s nothing better.

I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I’ve found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.

To be honest, I know this probably sounds corny or whatever because I’m a musician, but listening to music really helps me relax and calm down – listening to my favorite songs. Also, laughing and hanging out with my friends.

It’s perfectly okay if you don’t understand every single one of them.For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes,and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.

The Defense Department’s plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.

I know its corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me through and through.

If I’m playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don’t care how.

Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.

But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?

I think dates considered super corny and cheesy – whether it’s going bowling or miniature golf or something where you can be competitive and just have fun with each other – those always make the most memorable dates!

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

To some, the ’50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

I like to make records sound good. I’m more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what’s the point?

I don’t try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it’s only in their execution that people can enjoy them…It’s something I’ve learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks.

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.