![My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he produced Janis Joplin's album [1967's Big Brother & the Holding Company]. He always owned small labels as well - he had a label called Mainstream Records in the 70s.](/assets/img/quote-photos/my-grandfather-was-bob-shad-one-of-those-legendary-jazz-and-blues-producers-he.jpg)
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brother integrity simple
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed. Charles Caleb Colton
brother wine yield
We must meditate, brothers. These grapes will yield no wine we tread upon it. Charles Spurgeon
brother twins repentance
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
brother bridges support
The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them.
brother men names
I know that charity covereth a multitude of sins; but it does not call evil good, because a good man has done it; it does not excuse inconsistencies, because the inconsistent brother has a high name and a fervent spirit; crookedness and worldliness are still crookedness and worldliness, though exhibited in one who seems to have reached no common height of attainment.
brother generosity simplicity
A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.
brother dragons black
I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. Alan Moore
brother dad musical
Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation. Al Jardine
brother may matter
Brother Lawrence expressed the highest moral wisdom when he testified that if he stumbled and fell he turned at once to God and said, 'O Lord, this is what you may expect of me if You leave me to myself.' He then accepted forgiveness, thanked God, and gave himself no further concerns about the matter. Aiden Wilson Tozer
grandfather earth able
I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being. Dionne Warwick
grandfather my-grandfather
History is as Old as My Grandfather Adolf Hitler
grandfather vinegar honey
As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right? Andrew Cuomo
grandfather pentecostal preacher
My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. Billy Ray Cyrus
grandfather coins world
I've just always been a coin collector, ever since my grandfather had some ancient coins that he passed down to me, it's just always been something. I love collecting coins from around the world in my travels but I they don't really do anything useful anymore, I guess. Kellan Lutz
grandfather
Grandfather informs me that is not possible. Jonathan Safran Foer
grandfather faces window
Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.
grandfather alex good-person
I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated
grandfather able shame
I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him. Lloyd Banks
labels trouble doormat
The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat". Charles Stross
labels records paid
You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label]. Betty Wright
labels fundamentals
When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things Denzel Washington
labels majority needs
You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you. Alan Light
labels opinion
Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day. Barry White
labels
I have never gotten into the label thing. Diana Ross
labels records my-friends
I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day. Bruce Springsteen
labels bass sides
As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business. Brian Setzer
labels cadillacs parks
The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife. Barbara Ehrenreich