Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Willie Dixon

My God, I never heard a woman sing the blues like you sing the blues,

Susan Tedeschi

I feel like I'm part of a big family, ... I meet blues singers all the time, and they're surprised that I'm a white girl but very supportive. And when they hear me sing, they just say, 'Girl!'

Merry Clayton

I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.'

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.

Keith Tkachuk

I don't know what's going to happen here. I'm not the general manager . . . I'm not the owner. I'm just a player that has to do his job to help his team win and whatever happens, happens. We as players can only control one thing: how we perform on the ice. We need more guys worried about that than worried about other things right now. That's probably (why the Blues are in) the situation we're in right now, because people worry about that.

David Gilmour

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.

David Gilmour

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also will use any gadget or device that I find that helps me achieve the sort of sound on the guitar that I want to get.

B. B. King

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

Mark Twain

It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday.

J. D. Salinger

I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.

Benjamin Franklin

A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

Mark Twain

Be good and you'll be lonesome

Jimmy Buffett

Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free.

Truman Capote

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Calista Flockhart

I just can't eat without my sunglasses,

Bob Dylan

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

Rory McCann

I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I even trained myself to be a tree surgeon.

Alison Goldfrapp

Always have sunglasses with you. They're great for when you can't be bothered to put make-up on.

Jessica Sanchez

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

Jack Nicholson

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

J. Taylor

I'd sung as a kid, but then I quit,

Tory Burch

I never go out during the day without sunglasses.

Greg Romano

I had no idea that there are 2,350 verses on this subject.

Patrick Kavanagh

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

Joss Whedon

There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.