Jack Terricloth Quotes

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My favorite wine is usually whatever is right in front of me.

Jack Terricloth
People often ask me, "Jack, you're old. How do you manage to get out of the house and be so outraged and hop up and down so very often?" And of course, I respond, "Could you lend me ten bucks so I can buy some drugs?"

Jack Terricloth
Have you noticed that bank tellers are almost always very attractive? Is it because they're on display back there behind the glass so close and yet so far? Or is it like bartenders they have so much of what we want?

Jack Terricloth
Everything's going to be okay, even though it's all terribly wrong.

Jack Terricloth
If I am not doing something illicit, I feel absolutely naked.

Jack Terricloth
Punk's an attitude. Punk's not three-chord rock. If you want to listen to three chord rock, there's southern rock.

Jack Terricloth
It was great the way we changed the mind of the nation and fascism was defeated and all the troops were home by Christmas.

Jack Terricloth
Q: What do you think makes a good rock front man
Terricloth: Shamelessness, I'd imagine.

Jack Terricloth
My older friends say, "I was in a punk band once, and we used to be pretty outraged. We would get pretty angry, we'd get a stomp going or something, we would rally against Reagan, or other elected officials. But now I am an older man, and I have some responsibilities, so I really cannot be excited. I appreciate Kurt Cobain, and I'm excited about all those bands that seem very angry, but—why would you keep doing this after all these years?" And I say, "Because I still hate you and I'm trying to prove to you that you're wrong." Because, really, if you're bored and you're listless, you just need to get yourself an enemy.

Jack Terricloth
There's a shop on the next corner, North Six, between Wythe and Berry? I'd like you all to go smash it up. Now, if anyone asks you who told you to do this, I want you to keep mum. It was Franz.

Jack Terricloth
Where do you hear the songs? In the space between wake and passing out, the hiss down the left of the dial, the faces of the kids when we pull up to the show, in answering machine hang up messages, in glasses colliding, transmissions whining, where the music doesn't belong—where it lives. Everywhere, it's all I hear.

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You should live your life with an emphasis on accruing experiences and becoming cooler.

Jack Terricloth
Money should never be the reason you ever do or don't do anything. I haven't paid rent in 3 months.

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What's the most important thing in the world? Walking the walk.

Jack Terricloth
All you have to do is put all other concerns aside and your fondest desire will come true. Unfortunately, 'all other concerns' includes your health, financial well-being, interpersonal relationships, and often any inkling of why you had this desire in the first place. Good luck!

Jack Terricloth
What better place than this? What better choice than us?

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Is it better to look classy or act classy? Act. But one follows the other.

Jack Terricloth
Trouble is a great deal of fun, and crimes committed without malice are usually forgiven among peers.

Jack Terricloth