Chris Isaak Quotes

• In the long run, there are people who’ve made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I’ll have come out winning.

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  Topics in Money

  Tags in Winning, People

• I got by as a musician since day one. I don’t live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real, Musician

• My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.

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  Tags in Guitar, Strings

• I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don’t even have a push-button radio. It’s just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you’re driving, that’s all I want.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Makes, Hate, Change

• Singing is something that I’m always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It’s fun.

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  Tags in Happy, Fun, Something

• I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn’t have money to travel. I thought I’d have to join the military to get to Europe. So I’m thrilled to travel.

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  Topics in Money

  Tags in Military, Travel

• I put music on and I drive around town.

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  Tags in Music, Drive

• I’m in showbusiness. I’m an entertainer.

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  Tags in Entertainer

• There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, ‘You want to be Elvis’ and I would say, ‘No’.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Hair, Misconceptions

• I’m not the kind of guy to talk about angels: I’m a very pragmatic kind of guy.

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  Tags in Kind, Guy

• Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

  Chris Isaak

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  Tags in Sound, Talk

• I keep things pretty simple.

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  Tags in Simple, Pretty

• I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits.

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  Tags in Making, Banana

• I’m the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I’m also available for children’s parties and bar mitzvahs.

  Chris Isaak

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Television, Available

• I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Woman, Second

• When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I’ll go: ‘You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I’m so glad I didn’t.’ Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love.

  Chris Isaak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, School, Like

• My advice is: if you’ve got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

  Chris Isaak

  Topics in Advice

  Tags in Music, Great

• I don’t spend as much time on my hair as people think. I get out of the shower, whack some grease on there and I’m done.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Spend, Think

• I’m a natural ham. It doesn’t bother me to perform.

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  Tags in Natural, Perform

• The ’50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.

  Chris Isaak

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  Tags in Pretty, Wonderful, Hopeful

Chris Isaak (38)

Birth:	26th June, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Lyricist, Musician, Singer, Talk Show Host, Television Producer

About

Christopher Joseph "Chris" Isaak was born in Stockton, California. He is an American musician, occasional actor, talk show host and television producer. Records in 1984 for his first album, Silvertone. Isaak's best known song is "Wicked Game". In 2001, Isaak starred in his own television show, The Chris Isaak Show. He contributed a cover of Buddy Holly's "Crying, Waiting, Hoping" for a tribute album, Listen to Me: Buddy Holly, released in September 2011. Isaak has appeared in numerous films, mostly playing cameo roles.

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