Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Idland

We have musicians from as far away as Ontario and Seattle traveling all the way to Greenville to be a part of our first blues festival - this is exciting.

Jon Nicholson

We found her singing at a blues bar, ... where she was waitressing.

Larry Pleau

We're pleased to say that Bryce's career as a member of the St. Louis Blues will continue for several more years,

Robbie Robertson

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta.

Koko Taylor

Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

Josh Martin

Old blues stuff is pretty much what we really listen to, and what, on the foundation, structures the band, as far as music goes. That's what we're all collectively super into.

Eric Burdon

One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of the community. My love of Spanish music hasn't wavered since the '50s. I could hear the blues voicing from the Flamanco families and I always dig for inspiration in Latin music.

Jay McShann

The only blues record I ever had was Bessie Smith. Mississippi Delta Blues, I think they called that. She had it put together beautiful.

Dan Crews

We don't have reggae or blues every year. We don't have enough time to have all (styles).

Erich Leinsdorf

When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

Kathryn Lasky

I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.

Jeff Ulbrich

Last year, we introduced the 3-4, but at the same time, we retained all our 4-3 calls, we practiced them. It was kind of always like, I don't know if it was inevitable, but it kind of seemed like that at times, that we were going to go back.

Agnes Obel

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

Rusty Hardin

We think the video shows a lecture on what their policy is. We would've introduced it if they hadn't.

Aaron Adams

So there was this big slug of decaying material that introduced a big slug of nutrients into the system.

Clark Johnson

The speaker is introduced at 7:30 and speaks for about 10 to 15 minutes. Then we have a round of prayer.

Pete Jones

It was very impressive. From the pulpit, he introduced everyone in the room. He has still been able to remember every name.

John Szabo

What's a joke? ... The referendum is non-binding. You object to an ordinance being introduced to make that binding?

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Charles Spurgeon

If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.

Billy Joel

I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.

David Viscott

The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'

Diablo Cody

These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.

Charles Taze Russell

The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.

Bob Marley

The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone.

Bill Wyman

The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.