List of Ric Ocasek Quotes

Never Mind A World That Can't See Past Brutality Answers Are Getting The Gas Live Gestures Have Constantly Been Used As Weapons

Once They're On Paper, They're Gone. I Like To Do As Much With The Words, As Far As Image Goes.

I Think I Understand What Bands Want, Just From Having Made Records Myself. I Understand What It Takes To Get A Good Vocal Sound, Or To Make People Comfortable In The Studio. From Minor Things Like Their Headphone Mix - And If A Singer's Singing, How They Should Hear Themselves - To How To Make People Feel That They're Getting Exactly What They Want. All Those Things, I Think, Are An Advantage, Especially The Part About Having Done It Myself. I'm Not Just An Engineer Who Records The Sounds Well. I'm Not Afraid To Take Chances.

If I Would Have Been In A Different World Like I Frequently Am When I See You Oh I Might Have Missed All The Ways You Try To Give If Only You Knew What You Do To Me Sometimes I Think About Eternity If It Would Have Been Another Time I Wonder What You Would Of Had In Mind

The Most Important Thing To A Lot Of People, Is To Belong To Something That's Hip Or Whatever. To Be A Part Of Something That's Not Society, Just A Clique.

I Think Bands, When They're On The Road, They Keep Their Sanity By Developing An Internal Sense Of Humor.

Once They're On Paper, They're Gone. I Like To Do As Much With The Words, As Far As Image Goes, So That It's Really Left Open For A Lot Of Things, Even Though I Remember A Specific Impression Of Something I Had At The Time. I Can't Say A Song Is About This Or That; In Fact, I Wouldn't Even Want To. I Just Prefer To Have People Live It Anyway They Want. Because It's Theirs After That. There's Nothing I Can Do About It Anymore

Sometimes You Want To Run Away Sometimes You Think You Do But You Never Had A Dream Like This Before And You Don't Want To Ask For More Sometimes You Leave A Mark Before You Know The Score

Your High Points And Your Low Points. High Points Don't Last That Long, It's A High And It Happens. It's Great At The Moment But You Really Can't Live On It.

They're Caught Where There's No Way Out Or Where You Can't See Out. What Are You Going To Do About It? I Don't Have The Answer. If I Did There Would Be No Insane Asylums. But I See A Lot Of People, A Lot Of My Friends In The Same Predicament. Many Times In My Life, I Was There Myself.

People Are Strange. We're All Morticians. Hey, What's On Tv?

I've Been In A Band, So I Understand The Politics. Sometimes The Bass Player Doesn't Like What The Guitar Player Is Doing, And You Have To Sort Of Even That Out. But I've Also Always Loved The Technology Part Of It. I've Always Loved The Studio Part. Making Albums. Besides Writing Songs, Which Has Been My Primary Thing, Making Records Would Be Second. Obviously, Touring Would Be Third. Touring Wasn't My Favorite Thing To Do, But The First Few Tours Were Pretty Fun. Seeing The World And Everything.