Coffeehouse Quotes

"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said. (Franz Kafka)
And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s. View quote
Kevin Pollak
Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven. View quote
Libba Bray
As a young kid sprouting a wispy moustache, I was sometimes dismissed by the Russians as an upstart. I have been referred to even as a "coffeehouse player”. View quote
Viswanathan Anand
The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine. View quote
Paul Stanley
It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up. View quote
Jason Mraz
Well, the coffeehouse audiences never know what they're going to get, and all the comics are different, as opposed to when you go to a club, and they're pretty much all telling jokes with set-ups and punchlines. Coffeehouse audiences are the most forgiving: They really listen, which is the best part. View quote
Kathy Griffin
When somebody was telling a certain great minister that people were discontented; "Pho, said he, half a dozen fools are prating in a coffeehouse, and presently think their own noise about their ears is made by the world." View quote
Jonathan Swift