Ric Ocasek Quotes

• I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it’s growing or crumbling.

  Ric Ocasek

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Person, Trying

• Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.

  Ric Ocasek

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Half, Need

• Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don’t let anyone know it.

  Ric Ocasek

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Secrecy, Efficiency

• There’s more to light than the opposite of dark.

  Ric Ocasek

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dark

• People are strange. We’re all morticians. Hey, what’s on TV?

  Ric Ocasek

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strange

• Never mind a world that can’t see past brutality.

  Ric Ocasek

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mind, past, Brutality

• Sometimes you want to run away, sometimes you think you do, but you never had a dream like this before and you don’t want to ask for more, sometimes you leave a mark before you know the score.

  Ric Ocasek

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Before, Away, Sometimes

• I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

  Ric Ocasek

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness, Sadness, Down

• Your high points and your low points. High points don’t last that long, it’s a high and it happens. It’s great at the moment but you really can’t live on it.

  Ric Ocasek

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in High, Low, Point

• They’re caught where there’s no way out or where you can’t see out. What are you going to do about it? I don’t have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums.

  Ric Ocasek

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Insane, Answer

• The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that’s hip or whatever. To be a part of something that’s not society, just a clique.

  Ric Ocasek

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hip, Clique

• Once they’re on paper, they’re gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

  Ric Ocasek

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Words, Image

Ric Ocasek (12)

Birth:	23rd March, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Producer, Lyricist

About

Ric Ocasek is an American musician and music producer. He is best known as lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band, The Cars. When Ocasek was 16, his father, a Polish born computer analyst for NASA, was transferred to Cleveland, Ohio. After graduating from Maple Heights High School in Maple Heights, Ohio, Ocasek then attended Bowling Green State University near Toledo, Ohio.He is married to ex-model Pavlína Pořízková.

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