Jack Johnson Quotations

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.

We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.

It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

We decided to donate about $2,344 from our stipend account, and the City Council voted recently to match the other half of the funds.

We're looking forward to the game, it's the game we came here to play. Both teams are going to be playing hard-nosed hockey. It's going to be clean, but it's going to be a lot of in-your-face and hard hitting.

LWS tells us that the water quality is good, but people are still suspect. I think they may be on the right track with the wells, but anyone looking to bring industry here has to only look on the Internet to know the problems.

LWS tells us that the water quality is good, but people are still suspect, ... I think they may be on the right track with the wells, but anyone looking to bring industry here has to only look on the Internet to know the problems.

Music, don't get me wrong 'cause I love it, it's something I hope I always do, but surfing is something that kind of what brings my friends and me together.

No, but we got to hang out together in Hawaii last year. There weren't any waves that day, so we just chilled out. And we've talked on the phone quite a few times. He's such a nice guy and seems really happy to be where he's at.

Personally, I've been happy the way things have gone. I do anything I can to impact the team. I'm very happy the way things have progressed.

I'd love for him to make music. He plays with us, and he comes into my studio all the time and jams.

Buffett came and sat in with us the other night in Chicago. That was fun. He and I played 'A Pirate Looks at Forty,' one of his songs. We actually know each other pretty well now. We're definitely from the same breed -- guys who like to go on boats and surf and have a good time, so I don't mind being compared to him at all.

He was a natural at the position. A lot people talk about arm strength and size, but there's also something to playing quarterback that involves the brain. David processed things very fast and did not make a mistake. He was like a control pitcher in baseball.

He (Dyer) was grandfathered into the position when the state law was passed that mandated that all judges need to be lawyers, ... That means that if we were to appoint a city judge, it would have to be an attorney - and that would probably be a good thing. It would take politics out of the court.

We met last year at Hawaii, and at some point we'll do something together -- a show or some music.

I was always on that side of somebody who was good enough to be in the contests, but I was really happy that I decided to go to college instead of trying to pursue it, because I don't know if I would have had a huge career surfing.

I was just saying goodbye. They had a lot of fun with me and I had a lot of fun with them and it was my last chance to be on the ice with them, so I thought I would say goodbye.

I saw the way Downie had played all game and I knew he was a player who played with an edge. We exchanged slashes, I saw him skating toward me and I was trying to be prepared. I didn't want to put a guy out of the tournament, but I didn't want him to pull anything on me.

Our intent was not to recycle these as commercials.

Plato's cave is full of freaks, demanding refunds for the things that they see.

Just because Canada is a class act team and Russia is big in taunting and everything. We just like the way Canada carries itself, and I have a (University of Michigan) teammate on Canada.

Most of the guys here play college hockey and we get it every time from the student sections so it's something that should be expected. I definitely thought it was anti-American, but at the same time a lot of guys in the locker room thrived on that. Almost every Canadian I've met is a great person. That's just hockey. They didn't like the other team.

We've got Savage and our receivers should be good. The offensive line will take a little time. I think our defense is pretty solid. Our secondary is good.

We aren't going to lose sleep over being bigger, faster and stronger and hitting hard. We know that's how we will have to play against the Canadians. We aren't going to change our game.

I would turn on the TV, but its so embarassing.

A lot of people spend their time just floating/ We were victims together but lonely.

Can't you see that it's just raining? There ain't no need to go outside.

The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw the voices echoed across the way its getting late It was just another night with the sun set and the moon rise not so far behind to give us just enough light to lay down underneath the stars listen to papas translations of the stories across the sky we drew our own constellations

Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect...

Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon.

But you're so busy changing the world Just one smile can change all of mine

If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.

The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.

I want to turn the whole thing upside down I'll find the things they say just can't be found I'll share the love I find with everyone We'll sing and dance to Mother Nature's song I don't want this feeling to go away.

Love is the answer At least for most of the questions in my heart Why are we here and where do we go And how come it's so hard

you don't always have to hold your head higher than your heart

When you move like a jellyfish rhyth don't mean nothing. You go with the flow, you don't stop. Move like a jellyfish, rhythm means nothing.You go with the flow you don't stop.

The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.

love's just a waste of energy and life's just a waste of time so why don't we get together we could waste everything tonight

We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.

People don't know anything about themselves because they're all worried about everybody else.

Don't let your dreams be dreams.

an individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change.

We are deploying resources to house our new citizens and to ease their suffering.

we'll look at every department in this government in terms of efficiency, and there will be changes. We have to do that in order to do our first job, which is to keep taxes where they are.

Yeah, I heard a version of that. It's pretty flattering.

Who told you I was yellow? You're white Tommy -- white as the flag of surrender!

Why are white women so attracted to black men? We eat cold eels and think distant thoughts.

We almost took for granted that we were going to out-skill some people. There were times we were lacking that extra grit.

We will undergo a major reorganization of this government,

because in the end we have found that silent films r full of sound

(Emmert) is a guy that is similar to Dave in a lot of ways. He's a smart, heady player. He's probably a step quicker than Dave and taller, but they are just two great leaders that rarely make a mistake.

The Russians have the most skilled team, but if Canada comes out with the same passion and intensity that they had against us, they will be fine.

It was a little breezy and cooler, but all in all, it was a very good day for us,

People forget that he was a fierce competitor. How many times did he run for a first down scrambling on that drive? ... He made so many great plays in his career that after awhile you just got used to it.

This is game we came here to play.

They were just people who loved being out in nature all the time,

It wasn't like his head snapped back. I just grazed him. Right now I have bigger things to worry about like the Czech Republic.

For every point I'm given, I'll have earned two, because I'm a Negro.

It made it fun to know there were 20,000 people against us.

It's easy to play on the edge when you are in an environment like this, especially playing against Canada. I feel I have to play like that in order to play a good game.

It'll be fun to see them. Obviously, there are no friends once the game starts. But I haven't seen some of those guys in a while.

I've kind of always tried to make it secondary to life, you know? The kind of music I make I think is best at barbecues and road trips. It's kind of good soundtrack music.

I've had a few people tell me as soon as Buffett retires they're coming on my tour,

I try to sing songs to the kids that will inspire them, and so the next generation they start working hard, and then the little guys they see you guys working hard and they get inspired by you.

It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime, ... We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.

I liked (Wednesday) when we did Mongolia because we got to make llamas and paint them and put fur on them.

If you can afford to have all these trucks and buses out, you can afford to do it, ... It costs more. It's about 30 cents a gallon more to do it at this point.

I heard some words from a friend on the phone, it didn't sound so good. The doctor gave him two weeks to live, I'd give him more. If I could.

Canada will play an in-your-face game. That's how they have played the whole tournament and they have had success.

Every time I get a chance to be out in the ocean, it's like hitting a reset button for me where I just feel alive again, in perfect balance. Music can give me that, as well, but not as easily. The ocean is the way I know how to find it almost daily.

Some music, it's meant just to make you dance and be able to celebrate and get away from all that kind of thinking. And so, I think it is important if you think your music can do that - to keep doin' it.

I can never tell what's going to end up being on an album until it's all finished. I'm reading the news everyday, and sometimes I just have to be away from it. And that ends up writing the songs for me a little bit.

To be part of a community feels really good - to be among people who have similar feelings and want to share thoughts. It's a nice feeling.

Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change.

The songs themselves sometimes have messages and people can read into them different ways, but I try to use concerts as a way to gather people and then have information there. I think that's important to find that balance, a way to be able to turn people on to things at the shows, but also just have it be an entertainment experience for people who just want to hear music and dance and don't want the extra stuff.

Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days, a few words will lock themselves into place. I might just get the first line. Then words just keep falling into the syllables. The choruses kind of write themselves and verses I have to work at a little bit.

What I like to do with music is make people feel better. Make people realize that all humans have the same problems, more or less. A lot of people deal with the same thing. A lot of times people think problems are specific to them and they if they hear a song about a problem common to them, they feel good because they know that someone else has gone through it.

Guys who do a lot of running and jumping around cannot get themselves set to throw a hard punch.

I never took singing lessons. I guess, I feel comfortable with it, but I do not feel like a singer. I never want to sing without a guitar in my hand. I consider myself more of a songwriter, rather than a singer. I could never be in a wedding band and just sing Marvin Gaye songs.

The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats to injure me, the shots at my character-fighting those were my toughest battle.

We get to go out into the schools and work with the kids on connecting them to their food at a young age, to actually see where their food is coming from, to see that their food is coming from the earth and not just from a supermarket. Once they make that connection, they can start to build upon that.

Supporting local food production is so much healthier for people. It's better for the local economy, and it's a lot of fun.

The music brings me confidence and freedom. It's also the thing that can make me feel the most vulnerable. Once I finish writing all the songs for an album, once I actually record them, that whole process is usually easy and enjoyable. The part where I feel the most vulnerable is when it's all finished, I can make no more changes, I've turned it in, and there's no going back. All of a sudden I hear the songs in a different way; that's when I feel vulnerable.

When I'm playing music I'm usually not thinking of surfing, just because I'm usually thinking about the chords and the lyrics, and sometimes that messes me up 'cause you'll start thinking, "Wait, how am I doing this?" But when I'm surfing, I'm usually thinking about music - whether it's an idea for a new song, or just singing a song in my head.

Some fighter's waist a lot of their energy. Wait for your opportunity and when it comes, avail yourself of it. The idea of boring in and throwing punches helter skelter without reason doesn't amount to a row of pins. Every time you miss a swing it is worse than being hit.

Careful living and correct training methods aided me a great deal, but I would say straight punching was the foundation of all my success.

I love playing my music and I love sharing the music with people. But at the same time, it is pretty taxing.

Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually writing the songs and getting out of mind and into the song.

I won from Mr. Jeffries because I outclassed him in every department of the fighting game. Before I entered the ring I was certain I would be the victor. I never changed my mind at any time.

People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes.

Plato's cave is full of freaks.

When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason.

What about your mind, does it shine?

You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.

He gets his courage from the can, it makes him feel like a man.