Jann Wenner Quotes

The most important thing a magazine can do online is maintain its brand and be very strong in terms of delivering on that brand. ~ Jann Wenner

I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy. ~ Jann Wenner

I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed. ~ Jann Wenner

Being yourself is one of the greatest things you can possibly do. Being true to yourself. ~ Jann Wenner

To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear. ~ Jann Wenner

When I started Rolling Stone in November 1967, the magazine's initial chapter was to cover rock & roll music with intelligence and respect. Even then, we knew that the fervor sweeping our generation encompassed more than just music. ~ Jann Wenner

Wenner began a campaign to get his parents back together. Sim told her son she wanted him to call only every other week to reduce her phone bills. "Your demand that Dad and I be something to each other that we're not, is basically a child's demand," she wrote to him in 1959, when Wenner was thirteen. "One stamps one's foot and says, 'Change the world and I will be all right!' and it's a nice comforting thought to have, but the world can't be changed, families can't be changed, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers…There is only one thing that can be changed, or rather, only one thing that you can change, and that is yourself." ("Maternally yours," she signed the letter.) ~ Joe Hagan

The challenges are different to different kinds of magazines. News magazines, magazines that have high frequency and news, are going to be challenged, heavily challenged, not just by the Internet but by the whole 24-hour news cycle which has just been getting enhanced. ~ Jann Wenner

It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it. ~ Jann Wenner

There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves. ~ Jann Wenner

If wine is fruit, then vodka must be a vegetable. ~ Jann Arden

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing. ~ Jann Klose

Life is like a handcrafted tapestry and every conscious entity in the entire universe is seated at the loom, tying their knots of experience into the overall design. ~ Jann Burner

Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had. ~ Michael Patrick Jann

And every breath I ever took, every tear I ever wept, every star I wished upon seemed nothing until now. Every prayer I ever said seemed strangely answered now. Could it be I'm in love? Could it be I'm in love? ~ Jann Arden

My heart smiled when you kissed my lips. What a sweet suprise. ~ Jann Arden

I'm out of vogue, I'm out of touch. I fell to fast - I feel too much. ~ Jann Arden

And you know me, oh you know me more than anyone. ~ Jann Arden

It was a wealthy family, and they heard me talk about movies, and they told me I should go into movies. That's the benefit of hanging out with rich people; they have no sense of what is or isn't possible. ~ Michael Patrick Jann

Watching Mr. Darcy play the love-struck suitor was about the most entertaining thing Bennet had ever seen. ~ Jann Rowland

It's a different thing playing in a smaller venue where you can actually see people's faces and reactions. It's so much more intimate. You walk away with a more personal experience. ~ Jann Klose

David Bendeth was introduced to me by an entertainment lawyer friend. ~ Jann Klose

I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place. ~ Jann Klose

Our job is to create a more perfect union. Right here. Right now! This has always been the dream of humankind since the beginning and once it was a reality and people around the world would speak about it to one another in quiet whispers over late night fires and it was called…AMERICA! ~ Jann Burner

The Spirit Sports with Time.
The Soul is the Light that shines through...
And all of our earthly desire and ambition is nothing but shadow play on the cave wall...
There is a secret here that we have all sworn not to reveal. ~ Jann Burner

By the time you were in your cradle," said Darcy, his voice laced with sarcasm, "I was already riding my first pony." "You ~ Jann Rowland

We are God's Memory Palace. We are an interactive holographic construct of dynamic memory being visualized by a higher form of consciousness. ~ Jann Burner

Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades. ~ Michael Patrick Jann

I want to do something that is unique, that has its own legs. But it's very hard because if you start veering off, if you get too crazy, then people won't know what to make of it. I want to please my audience, too. I want people to like what I do. ~ Jann Klose

Words are big. They define who you are. They are permanent. I don't think most people realize that. What you say is who you are. So try to be gentle on social media. Lift others up when you can, even if you don't agree with what they have to say. Don't always turn your words into weapons when you can just as easily make them doves. ~ Jann Arden

A lover makes you smile like children smile. That smile that was only meant for you. The half smile. The big shiny smile full of teeth and white enamel and pink gums. The smile that fades in the distance as I drive away in a taxi again. ~ Jann Arden

Feet on ground,
Heart in hand,
Facing forward,
Be yourself. ~ Jann Arden

The Mind illustrates an intelligence and a sense of persistent continuity, that the brain can only dream of... ~ Jann Burner

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money. ~ Michael Patrick Jann