You see, you just don't know I'm here to give you my heart And you want some fashion show Jim Carroll More Quotes by Jim Carroll More Quotes From Jim Carroll When I was about 9 years old, man, I realized that the real thing was not only to do what you were doing totally great, but to look totally great while you were doing it. Jim Carroll greatlookyouman Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations... With basketball, you can correct your own mistakes, immediately and beautifully, in midair. Jim Carroll mistakesyoupoetryfear I do believe that a poet would possess a stronger intuitive sense of phrasing with a rock song. There is a way to tap into the emotions of an audience simply by the cross of a certain phrase, even a single word, against a certain chord. Jim Carroll emotionssongbelieveway Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases. Jim Carroll fewactionsnothingconnected I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face a rock n' roll audience for one night to keep them honest. Jim Carroll rockfacesaidnight I can't sing that well, but when punk-rock came along, it changed all that. Jim Carroll alongsingwellchanged When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young poet who wasn't in it for what he could get out of it. And all of a sudden, the pure young poet comes back... and I'm hanging out with the Rolling Stones. Jim Carroll jokenewbackalways It's easy to get by on a facade of fancy style, but sooner or later, people are going to see through it. I'm trying to be as honest as possible. Jim Carroll seestyleeasypeople I should have stayed an athlete, body well-tuned, cruising around with my accountant in a Porsche, maroon and chrome. Jim Carroll accountantporschebodyathlete It's always been the same, growing up in Manhattan... the idea of living within a giant archer's target... for use by the bad Russia bowman with the atomic arrows. Jim Carroll badalwayslivinggrowing-up These guys were always saying, 'The minute you get onstage, it's great, no matter how much you're hurting.' But that didn't work for me. There were some nights I did not want to get out there. Jim Carroll greatmeyouwork Rock and roll kind of screwed up my voice poetically. I found myself having this 'Beat' voice in my poems. It was like this self-fulfilled prophecy because everybody was calling me this rock poet, this Beat poet. Jim Carroll myselfmerock-and-rollvoice I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know. Jim Carroll somethingyoualwaysyoung I need a consistency of my moods if there is to be any consistency in my style. I can't attempt to write always in the hollow flux of desperation and incipient terror. Jim Carroll needalwaysconsistencystyle I think that's one of the ways we have to sort of approach this issue, the prevention side of this is so key, but we just need to know that drugs are not coming into our country. We can not have a porous border for drugs. Jim Carroll
