Jon Landau quote: "It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism."

I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.
JON LANDAU

James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many ro...
JON LANDAU

'Sing It Again Rod' touches all the solo bases since Stewart's departure from the Jeff B...
JON LANDAU

One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profit...
JON LANDAU

The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and s...
JON LANDAU

Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their...
JON LANDAU

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything els...
JON LANDAU

Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are subs...
JON LANDAU

Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is be...
JON LANDAU

Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own ...
JON LANDAU

There were many stars in Motown's firmament - among them, Stevie, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, ...
JON LANDAU

The Rolling Stones are constantly changing, but beneath the changes they remain the most formal of r...
JON LANDAU

Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves aro...
JON LANDAU

James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He wr...
JON LANDAU

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity wh...
JON LANDAU

To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth cul...
JON LANDAU

Since her landmark 'Tapestry,' Carole King has both oversimplified and over elaborated that ...
JON LANDAU

As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audien...
JON LANDAU

He didn't want to make a sequel. And he's never made a sequel. There was a culmination of part of hi...
JON LANDAU

The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious w...
JON LANDAU

Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly ...
JON LANDAU

Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the re...
JON LANDAU

The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a b...
JON LANDAU

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my w...
JON LANDAU

Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confi...
JON LANDAU

'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginnin...
JON LANDAU

They were like little palaces: all rococo or art deco. You'd walk in off those hot streets into ...
MARTIN LANDAU

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative...
SAUL LANDAU

Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation.
SAUL LANDAU

I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourse...
JULIET LANDAU

Ageism is something that does exist.
MARTIN LANDAU

A lot of the time with an independent production, you go onto the set, and you rehearse it in front ...
MARTIN LANDAU

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.
MARTIN LANDAU

I did theatrical caricatures.
MARTIN LANDAU

As a Jew, there's a need to keep that atrocity alive. There were Catholics and gypsies and homos...
MARTIN LANDAU

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing ...
MARTIN LANDAU

I like working in both movies and television. Television is faster, not very much rehearsal and a lo...
JULIET LANDAU

I had hair down to my shoulders, a beard and mustache. I was crude and rude.
MARTIN LANDAU

Life is a roller coaster. There are ups; there are downs. There are hills; there are valleys, peaks,...
MARTIN LANDAU

In any age range, there are some limitations in terms of good, good parts.
MARTIN LANDAU

A good director makes a playground and allows you to play.
MARTIN LANDAU

We must not give in to the prime minister's regime of intimidation.
UZI LANDAU

I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the ...
MARTIN LANDAU

I studied with Strasberg, Elia Kazan. They raised the bar. They weren't easy to please, and they...
MARTIN LANDAU

I trained as an actor with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Harold Clurman, and those guys set a very ...
MARTIN LANDAU

Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was ...
MARTIN LANDAU

Needless to say, I'm very excited about a partnership with Sporting News Radio. Sporting News Radio ...
DAVID LANDAU

I've bounced back and forth between what would be best for Robert, having a sibling and somebody to ...
DAWN LANDAU

I did 12 shows in 13 weeks at a summer theater in Maine where we were paid $35 a week. After taxes a...
MARTIN LANDAU

We are continuing to reap the disastrous ramifications of Sharon's Gaza withdrawal. All the bad guys...
UZI LANDAU

The prime minister wants to appoint these two because they served him through all the democratic man...
UZI LANDAU

I was offered the Gene Hackman role in 'The Poseidon Adventure' four times, and I turned it ...
MARTIN LANDAU

Great teachers are the ones who inspire you.
MARTIN LANDAU

I don't like to do what I call 'the grunters' - a character who sits at a table and grun...
MARTIN LANDAU

I did a picture called 'Lovely, Still' with Ellen Burstyn, We screened it to the AARP people...
MARTIN LANDAU

In another two months, all this empathy for Sharon will be over.
UZI LANDAU

I think this was a concession to Egypt so Egypt would vote together with the U.S. and Western states...
EMILY LANDAU

If this carries on, ... the momentum to create what's called a government of national unity will bec...
DAVID LANDAU

I think people will look back at this period as the Golden Age of animation. There used to be one st...
YAIR LANDAU

But he just doesn't have the charisma.
UZI LANDAU

Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang.
SAUL LANDAU

He epitomized that dissatisfied young teenager. He looked like the boy next door, but he behaved dif...
MARTIN LANDAU

I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep addi...
MARTIN LANDAU

Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Holl...
MARTIN LANDAU

(Cedric Price produced the Potteries Thinkbelt) ...project which questioned most of the cherished es...
ROY LANDAU

For me, it does not 'miss' if (the Potteries Thinkbelt study) goes into the archive, not as an examp...
ROY LANDAU

My mantra is 'stay perpendicular.' Horizontal is not as good.
MARTIN LANDAU

My technique has always been to include all the periphery around me.
MARTIN LANDAU

I've worked with a lot of wooden actors in my day, but Pinocchio is the best.
MARTIN LANDAU

Of course, I remember the Disney 'Pinocchio.' I was a little kid then... It was very instruc...
MARTIN LANDAU

I really like the fact that I can have a life for myself and have enough time to have a great time w...
DAWN LANDAU

I always thought for sure I would have two, growing up.
DAWN LANDAU

I don't think there's a desire on any side to deal with this militarily. I think that . . . everybod...
EMILY LANDAU

Israel was trying to sharpen the idea that if nothing happens by March we're really going to be a po...
EMILY LANDAU

I don't think there's a desire on any side to deal with this militarily.
EMILY LANDAU

This is a moment in which both sides are new boys on the block, and nothing that was done prior need...
DAVID LANDAU

...They form an important part of his coalition.
DAVID LANDAU

so badly with the right that I honestly can't see much that he can do by way of winning them back ov...
DAVID LANDAU

The plan, the idea, the concept is to isolate Jerusalem from the Palestinian hinterland, and to say ...
DAVID LANDAU

You talk about it and people want it. People want to feel secure and feel everybody is in the tent a...
DAVID LANDAU

The year I got into The Actors Studio, Steve McQueen and I were the only two accepted that whole yea...
MARTIN LANDAU

There are not many A-list directors who get to make the movies they want to make. I know two: Woody ...
MARTIN LANDAU

When the state cut library budgets a while back, I began to study fundraising techniques. The only t...
HERB LANDAU

The state, county, and local governments here really don't support us that well.
HERB LANDAU

We try to balance the collection. The staff and I walk a tightrope, and there are occasional contest...
HERB LANDAU

There are no community centers, no senior centers or youth centers. We have to serve all those purpo...
HERB LANDAU

Consider what kind of nation we would be if hundreds of scandals involving state and local governmen...
JACK C. LANDAU

If [newsmen] violate their promises of confidentiality, they may never again be able to operate effe...
JACK C. LANDAU

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birt...
JON MEACHAM

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even l...
JON CORZINE

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.
JON HUERTAS

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch wit...
JON STEWART

President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much o...
JON STEWART

I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that ...
JON STEWART

If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.
JON STEWART

Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.
JON STEWART

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.
JON STEWART

I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. Y...
JON STEWART

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.
JON STEWART

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.
JON STEWART

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
JON STEWART

Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you kn...
JON STEWART

The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart b...
JON STEWART

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
JON STEWART

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.
JON STEWART

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.
JON STEWART

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been loo...
JON STEWART

I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.
JON STEWART

You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to lo...
JON STEWART

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they...
JON STEWART

Ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential,' I saw a little light bulb go off. Being a chef is ...
JON FAVREAU

I've been fascinated by the world ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bo...
JON FAVREAU

'Swagger' would be the word for 'Dirt On My Boots.' With the real funky drum loop an...
JON PARDI

I was 22 and had worked on Wall Street for a year, and quit my job. I bought a motorcycle and sort o...
JON FAVREAU

I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good.
JON HEDER

One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each sol...
JON KYL

I can be a traditionalist but also play with Luke Bryan and get the crowd to go crazy. I think that ...
JON PARDI

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our...
JON MEACHAM

All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credi...
JON TENNEY

Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really...
JON FAVREAU

I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon ...
JON TENNEY

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terr...
JON MEACHAM

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision maki...
JON VOIGHT

When it comes to celebrities and tabloids, to me that is a bummer. That's a little disappointing...
JON FAVREAU

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursin...
JON PORTER

When Iron Man's flying, we'd send real planes up to do the choreography so that we'd get...
JON FAVREAU

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not...
JON MEACHAM

People selling content internationally need to be highly focused on selling the right product to the...
JON FELTHEIMER

As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are abl...
JON PORTER

Owners who buy aggressive dogs for security may be kidding themselves: The chances that the victim o...
JON KATZ

When the Beatles wrote 'Paperback Writer,' it couldn't have been the same old thing. You...
JON BATISTE

I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said t...
JON FISHMAN

I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer.
JON ENGLISH

'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is b...
JON SCIESZKA

'The Royals' has emerged as a breakout series that has become one of E Network's highest...
JON FELTHEIMER

It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what...
JON STEWART

Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians ca...
JON STEWART

A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge...
JON RONSON

The internet is just a world passing notes around a classroom.
JON STEWART

I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radic...
JON KRAKAUER

Happiness [is] only real when shared
JON KRAKAUER

It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.
JON KRAKAUER

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, b...
JON STEWART

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in abo...
JON STEWART

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.
JON ENGLISH

Just every moment with Dick Cheney has been my favorite. Here's what I wonder about Dick Cheney, and...
JON STEWART

Yeah, that's the ticket.
JON LOVITZ

Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.'
JON STEWART

Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand g...
JON STEWART

We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the b...
JON STEWART

For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't… you know, it's inter...
JON STEWART

But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed of any late-b...
JON STEWART

Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunishe...
JON STEWART

I can't read lips unless they're touching mine.
JON TROAST

GOP strategists hope the revelation of Kerry's wealth might debunk his status as a, quote, man of th...
JON STEWART

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were sw...
JON STEWART

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the...
JON CORZINE

Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana...
JON STEWART

Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instru...
JON VOIGHT

I would still rather be in Silicon Alley. I like the West Coast also, but it's sort of fragmente...
JON ORINGER

I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good ...
JON MEACHAM

Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and comple...
JON MEACHAM

Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to inter...
JON KATZ

One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply th...
JON MEACHAM

I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a co...
JON PARDI

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one&...
JON MEACHAM

I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, th...
JON STEWART

If I were in a situation where I had to meet a pack of wolves and my family is with me, I'm goin...
JON SEDA

I like San Francisco, but I don't think I'd want to work in Palo Alto. It seems like a prett...
JON ORINGER

When I went to Everest, I underestimated things. I just didn't know what altitude could do. Or t...
JON KRAKAUER

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperativ...
JON PORTER

Some people say that their pets will tell them when it's time to go. I don't believe that. N...
JON KATZ

A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led...
JON KATZ

If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose...
JON KATZ

Some rescue groups are highly organized, experienced, well-funded, nearly professional. Others are s...
JON KATZ

It's easy to see why dog rescue is a mushrooming culture. Turning a troubled person's life a...
JON KATZ

Lifetime dogs intersect with our lives with particular impact; they're dogs we love in especiall...
JON KATZ

Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. B...
JON KATZ

There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life a...
JON KATZ

When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writ...
JON KATZ

I'm one of those people who has always struggled with emotions and revealing them. When my dog O...
JON KATZ

Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals c...
JON KATZ

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and pr...
JON KATZ

It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seei...
JON KATZ

A good breeder or experienced rescue agency wants you to prove that you'll be a capable caretake...
JON KATZ

Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and deci...
JON KATZ

When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live w...
JON KATZ

The Perfect Dog is an enticing fantasy pooch. It's the dog that instantly learns to pee outdoors...
JON KATZ

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life...
JON KATZ

My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, s...
JON KATZ

There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do...
JON KATZ

I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing th...
JON KATZ

I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and t...
JON KATZ

It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting...
JON KATZ

Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if...
JON STEWART

The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience an...
JON LESTER

The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for th...
JON ORINGER

That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close ...
JON HURWITZ

Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought ab...
JON PORTER

There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how t...
JON ORINGER

It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.

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It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.

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