Harry Dean Stanton Quotes


"I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't."
- Harry Dean Stanton
(Related: Singing)

"I have a good ear for languages."
- Harry Dean Stanton
"I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color."
- Harry Dean Stanton
(Related: People)

"I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?"
- Harry Dean Stanton
(Related: Time, Play)

"I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns."
- Harry Dean Stanton
(Related: Singing)

"I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time."
- Harry Dean Stanton
(Related: Time, Guitar, Play)

"I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college."
- Harry Dean Stanton
(Related: College, Speech, Training, Voice)

"I'm not really into religion."
- Harry Dean Stanton
(Related: Religion)

"I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me."
- Harry Dean Stanton
(Related: People, Compliments, Right)

"Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance."
- Harry Dean Stanton
(Related: Singing, Speech, Voice)

"The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA."
- Harry Dean Stanton
(Related: Now, Play, Years)

"Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe."
- Harry Dean Stanton
(Related: Science, Mystery, Universe)

"You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad."
- Harry Dean Stanton
(Related: People, Want)

"You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact."
- Harry Dean Stanton
(Related: Wisdom, People, Conversation, Walking, Want)

"I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."
- Harry Dean Stanton
(Related: Angels, May, Night, Rest, Want)

"I've never been ambitious about recording."
- Harry Dean Stanton
"California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music."
- Harry Dean Stanton
(Related: Music, Culture)

"But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that."
- Harry Dean Stanton
(Related: Future)