Jonathan Richman Quotations

when there's things to do not because you gotta.

If it was a five year-old asking me to do "Road Runner" I would have done it easy. But the same people who asked for "Road Runner" asked for "Pablo Picasso", they all had these sort of arty voices.

If it was a five year-old asking me to do ""Road Runner"" I would have done it easy. But the same people who asked for ""Road Runner"" asked for ""Pablo Picasso"", they all had these sort of arty voices.

We slept in Central Park, which is no mean feat- we got there and it was almost dawn when we went to sleep.

We rehearsed in the same place as Curt, so we saw him all the time and everything, but he wasn't in the band. It started out with just John Felice and me. I wrote to John from Israel saying I wanted to start a band when I got back home.

You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city.

If there was no Velvet Underground there would have been no such record. Does that tell you what you need to know?

I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em I don't do 'em even for myself.

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.

Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.