Dwight Yoakam Quotes

Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

'A Little Nightmare Music' is the first show we created. It's about all the nightmares that can happen in the span of a concert. When things go wrong - when the lights go out or a cellphone rings - that's when an audience suddenly comes alive, wondering what's going to happen next. Things going wrong often leads to something good.

It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.

You can't prepare for something that you can't prepare for.

I knew nothing about editing when I met Mr. Scorsese... Through a series of weird events, I ended up at New York University, and there was Martin Scorsese, and he had some troubles with a film I was able to fix. That's the only reason I became a filmmaker.

Everyone has a plan until they get hit.

Sometimes things just pop up right in front of your face and you have to take advantage of it.

A lot of weird things happen in life that are not always pertaining to your main objective.

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

To make a movie about mayhem, sometimes you have to go to mayhem.

No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.

There’s something kind of rewarding about playing the hurricane. My job is to create drama and chaos and there’s a lot of fun to be had doing that.

People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too

Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic.

I feel that the real drama of life is never center stage, it's always in the wings. It's never with the spotlight on, it's usually something that you don't expect at all.

He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.

Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.

I never see these things coming. They happen too fast. One second you're proposing an escape plan and the next...

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

With me, you never know what is going to happen

That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down

Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.