“Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
People Get Ready, performed by The Impressions, from People Get Ready (1965).
Song lyrics
“Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
“You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.”
Dallin H. Oaks (1932) Apostle of the LDs Church
Joy and Mercy http://www.lds.org/ensign/1991/11/joy-and-mercy, Dallin H. Oaks, November 1991
“It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.”
Joe Satriani (1956) American guitar player
Discussing his intentionally-out-of-tune intro to "Back To Shalla Bal" and contrasting it to the "perfectness" of Abba's vocals.
As quoted in Guitar Player (November 1989).
“Just go out there and get your heart broken in, so it'll be ready when you really need it.”
Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator
Source: Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Five
Barry Goldwater (1909–1998) American politician
Statement of 10 June 1993, as quoted in "Goldwater Backs Gay Troops" in The New York Times (11 June 1993); also quoted in Barry Goldwater (1995), by Robert Alan Goldberg, p. 332.
“You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings”
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) British visual artist
Interview with Frank & Vicent Tilsley. Lancashire Made them .News Chronicle & Daily Dispatch 1 Dec 1955.
Other
“You don't need words — just one kiss, then another.”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)