Quotes

Occasionally while listening to Joe Frank we come across a brief statement that is particularly notable or striking or representative of what we enjoy in Joe's programs. This is a growing list of some of those quotes.

"Life is simply the punchline of a joke told backwards."

--Bottle for a Headstone

--and Duplicity

"A lifetime of living in a world of gravity has done something unspeakable to his nose."

--Duplicity

"And so we had a prodigiously psychedelic experience."

--Mountain Rain

"And it was then that I came to the realization that the world is evil."

--Mountain Rain

"Never mind the answers; learn to live with the questions."

--In the Dark (remix)

"Time is like a dial without hands."

--Philosophy

"You can best follow the instruction book on virtuoso piano playing by simply depressing the keys in the correct order."

--Bottle for a Headstone

"Ask me what time it is, and I'll tell you how the watch is made."

--At the Dark End of the Bar (1999)

"I say love is being run over by a street car in 1928, losing your leg, becoming Edward Teller, inventing the atom bomb, and pretending not to be angry."

--Windows

". . .it had the cadence of witty repartee without the wit."

--Lies

"Would you rather have dinner with Claudia Schiffer as an 80 year old woman, or Margaret Mead as a young woman?"

--Justine

"To me, love is inviolable, sacred. This is why I don't feel up to it."

--Dear Annie

"I recently went to Venice to buy the larynx of a famos tenor; it's something new I'm into."

--Landing Strip in the Jungle, A

--and Philosophy

"A fish will never understand my fear of drowning, will it?"

--Landing Strip in the Jungle, A

"What I finally found unbearable is how much she loved me."

--Home

"Do you have a lover?"

"Mm hmmm. I'm extremely mad at him."

"Why?"

"Cause he's too short."

--Rain (1989)

"Never trust a naked man who tries to sell you a skin graft."

--Iceland (part 2)