Famous Quotes

"I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence."

Kristin Hersh on Humor

More quotes about Humor

• "A joke is a very serious thing."

  Winston Churchill on Humor

• "Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."

  Mark Twain on Humor

• "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."

  William James on Humor

• "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Humor

• "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."

  Henry Ward Beecher on Humor

More quotes by Kristin Hersh

• "I don't like the idea of famous people."

• "I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence."

• "Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say."

• "The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion."

• "That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them."