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" 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
Doing
You
Old Man
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" 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
Want
Great
Saying
" Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases. "
Jim Carroll
Nothing
Actions
Artists
" 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
Always
Consistency
Style
" 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
Rock
Emotions
Song
" 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
Poetry
You
Mistakes
" 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
People
Trying
See
" 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
Successful
Guy
Always
" I can't sing that well, but when punk-rock came along, it changed all that. "
Jim Carroll
Well
Sing
Changed
" 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
Face
Rock
Audience
" 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
Voice
Me
Myself
" I love kids that come to shows, little kids coming up to you with braces; like, some kid came up to me in a parking lot outside a show in Santa Cruz - he was about 14 or 15 - and he said, 'Y'know, I love 'The Basketball Diaries,' but I hope your next book of poetry isn't gonna be as academic as 'Living at the Movies' was.' "
Jim Carroll
Me
Love
Basketball
" 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
New
Young
Always
" I should have stayed an athlete, body well-tuned, cruising around with my accountant in a Porsche, maroon and chrome. "
Jim Carroll
Porsche
Accountant
Athlete
" I was this Catholic kid, and I never really lost that. I loved the rituals of Catholicism. The mass is a magic ritual; it's a transubstantiation, and the stations of the cross - I mean, a crown of thorns? Getting whipped? It's punk rock. "
Jim Carroll
Loved
Crown
Kid