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Offline uncle bud

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Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« on: January 03, 2012, 05:19:12 AM »
There was a time when music knew its place. No longer. Possibly this is not music's fault. It may be that music fell in with a bad crowd and lost its sense of common decency. - Fran Lebowitz, "The Sound of Music: Enough Already"
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Offline Rivers

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2012, 07:05:12 PM »
This guy wanted to marry me. He said "It's me or the horn." I said, "Well, it ain't you, babe" - Martye Awkerman, trumpet, quoted in Swing Shift, "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s by Sherrie Tucker
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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2012, 07:17:25 AM »
Now I'm gonna smoke my reefer, drink my good champagne and wine. Said I ain't gonna let these hard-headed women make me lose my mind - Kokomo Arnold, Rocky Road Blues



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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2012, 08:40:29 AM »
"I went to bed last night with nothing on my mind"--Emery Glenn, "Back Door Blues"
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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2012, 11:26:48 AM »

"Drop the bomb, y'all!"--Snooks Eaglin

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Re: Don't Start Me To Talkin' ? Quote Drive 2011
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2012, 09:40:41 AM »
?A lot of people think the blues is depressing,? she told The Los Angeles Times in 1992, ?but that?s not the blues I?m singing. When I?m singing blues, I?m singing life. People that can?t stand to listen to the blues, they?ve got to be phonies.? Etta James
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2012, 10:34:56 PM »
If we want everything to stay as it is, everything will have to change ? from The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lamedusa

My comment is: Wish I'd thought of that one.
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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2012, 04:36:11 PM »
Quote from: Rivers on January 21, 2012, 10:34:56 PM
If we want everything to stay as it is, everything will have to change ? from The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lamedusa

My comment is: Wish I'd thought of that one.

"The future ain't what it used to be."

Yogi Berra
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Offline uncle bud

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2012, 08:44:00 PM »
I am lost. Please return me to 1932. - printed on the back of a New Lost City Ramblers publicity card

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2012, 07:13:27 PM »
Stop playing all that bullshit - Thelonious Monk, advice to musicians

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2012, 07:29:06 PM »
Well this is obviously going to be a bumper year for quotes.
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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2012, 02:06:53 AM »
Quote from: Rivers on January 31, 2012, 07:29:06 PM
Well this is obviously going to be a bumper year for quotes.
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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #12 on: February 01, 2012, 09:57:43 AM »
The first night I stayed in Memphis, chinch bugs turned my bed around - Blind Lemon Jefferson, Chinch Bug Blues

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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #13 on: February 01, 2012, 10:21:50 AM »
I got her a job, she got to be a crank, she's taken all her money and put it in the bank! - Papa Charlie Jackson (You put it in, I'll take it out)
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Re: Stop and Listen - Quote Drive 2012
« Reply #14 on: February 01, 2012, 11:20:13 AM »

I don?t play ?em, I stomp ?em. ? Bukka White
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