Topic: What'd I Say - Quote Drive 2008

[CF]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Damn that's good!

[CF]

'25 cents?! Ha! No, no . . . I wouldn't pay 25 cents to go in nowhere!' - 1933's "Gimmie A Pigfoot" by Bessie Smith.

[oddenda]

          "Pete, any damn fool can mash a string and holler!"

                                          - Homesick James

[uncle bud]

"Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?"  - Luciano Pavarotti

[Coyote Slim]

If the blues was whiskey, and trouble was a bottle of gin
I'd buy me a 38 special and that's where trouble would begin"
--Roosevelt Sykes, "Trouble and Whiskey Blues"

That whole song is full of gems.

[Coyote Slim]

This one just popped up and boy did I misread it!

"I love women but I'm not crazy about them - Sam Chatmon, sharing his personal views on relationships with a young John Miller"

[Johnm]

Hi all,
Here's one from harmonica player and singer Robert Diggs, to George Mitchell:

   "Blues strike your heart just like church songs do.  I've played blues at churches before and had the preacher patting his foot.  'Cause music ain't but music, and a song ain't but a song."

All best,
Johnm

[Bricktown Bob]

Some people say money is talking, but it won't say a word to me.

- Robert Hicks, "Bad Time Blues"

[unezrider]

hello friend,

"monkey got his tail caught up on a street car line, honey
 didn't think about it till i started twistin' mine, honey
 run back to the track, lay his head on the rail
 lose his head about a little piece of tail.
 oh sail, oh sail away"

funny papa smith, "honey blues"

[dj]

"For decades, practically every big circus on the road had a black band and minstrel company attached to its sideshow, performing on the streets and inside the sideshow tent before people of all races, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the southern reaches of Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.  During the 1910s, these companies constituted a significant pathway for the dissemination of ragtime, blues, and jazz." - Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff, Ragged But Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs", And The Dark Pathway To Blues And Jazz

[Rivers]

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Added 46 new quotes since the last update, total is now 603. Very cool.

[oddenda]

An obscene observation to me by Baby Tate:

           If I had a dick as big as Pink (Anderson), I wouldn't have to work for the rest of my life!

Further comment is unnecessary, don't you think?

yrs,
     Peter B.

[Rivers]

Always educational, WC.com...

Very happy to see the steady stream of great quotes still emerging. Would be nice to hit 1000, I'm sure we can do it with some dedicated digging expeditions. I remember when there were around 50 in the database and we thought how cool that was.

PS, make my life easy gang - follow this standard format and I can just cut and paste:

No line breaks
No quotation marks unless somebody is quoting somebody else in middle of sentence
Type the quote first followed by a dash, then the attribution, as in:

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled - Sir Barnett Cocks, 1907 - 1989

[uncle bud]

At his first performance, in the Empire Theatre in Glasgow on August 1, the audience went wild when Waller made his entrance wearing a kilt. When he sat down at the piano and swung "Loch Lomond," he had them in knots. - Fats Waller tours the UK in 1938, from Spreadin' Rhythm Around, Jasen and Jones.

[Slack]

Added 46 new quotes since the last update, total is now 603. Very cool.

Good work Rivers!