220 Quotes by Sam Shepard

I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.

I'm not a big fan of anniversaries.

Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.

After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasn't far enough.

I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.

I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.

More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.

I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.