“When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.” Quote by Sammy Hagar
“"He Stopped Loving Her Today" a fascinating book about the making of a record. Really, to be honest, it has some of the best George Jones anecdotes I've ever read, like cocaine psychosis causing this personality called "the Duck."” BookTodayRecordsHonestPersonalityBeing HonestFascinatingDucksCocaineAnecdotesPsychosisGeorge Jones Author:Scott McClanahan
“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.” IfsInspirationalShouldFirstsChildrenWishParentChangeFamilyLearningWonderfulChildhoodChangedParentingParenthoodChild AbuseThings ChangeMemories Dreams ReflectionsFamily ValuesChildren And ParentsUnschoolingParent ChildI Have ChangedNew Parents Author:Carl Jung
“It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.” LittlesBookTodayFictionAnecdotes Author:Scott McClanahan
“[He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you have these polemical essay-type things going on for a couple decades now. Some of these music books are where you're going to see an anecdote of a person behaving without some kind of commentary.” KindPersonsBookTodayProcessConsciousnessAliveTypeCoupleDecadesEssaysCommentaryAnecdotesThought Process Author:Scott McClanahan
“The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.” KindPersonsHas BeensExtremesApocalypse Author:Scott McClanahan
“This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of anecdote and analysis. The analysis is built into the anecdote. It has that right feel about it. It's not too scholarly, either.” FeelsBookPerfectBuiltOriginalsAnalysisMonkAnecdotesScholarlyLife And Time Author:Scott McClanahan
“Samuel Clemens isn't Mark Twain. Mark Twain is Mark Twain. He doesn't become the thing until he creates himself.” Mark Author:Scott McClanahan
“So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.” ArtActionCultureStuffArt IsGreat ArtAction MovieReally Amazing Author:Scott McClanahan
“I guess the things I have always loved are from people who were just being themselves. They were doing these things because they couldn't do it any other way. It was for them.” PeopleWayJust Being Author:Scott McClanahan
“With my stuff, I think I've tried. I've been courted. I don't want to sound like an asshole, but I've been courted to be someone who could sell a lot of books.” ThinkingWantBookStuffSoundSells Author:Scott McClanahan