Author Topic: "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know" Quote Drive 2017 (Read 3376 times)

Blues Vintage · « **on:** February 16, 2017, 07:32:57 AM »

I don't know if I'm qualified to start a quote drive but I love quotes so I just start one.

"Buster B. Jones is the best fingerpicker I've heard since Jerry Reed? He plays like he's double parked." Chet Atkins

Slack · « **Reply #1 on:** February 16, 2017, 08:34:43 AM »

You bet. Good one Harry.

btasoundsradio · « **Reply #2 on:** February 16, 2017, 10:22:14 AM »

"Plow the mule in the daytime, pick the guitar at night"
-bud spires
"RL, did you shoot him in self defense?"
"No, I shot him in the leg and he jumped the fence"
-RL Burnside

Blues Vintage · « **Reply #3 on:** February 17, 2017, 03:09:02 AM »

"The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential" Billy Gibbons

wreid75 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 17, 2017, 10:03:48 AM »

?I didn't mean to kill nobody ... I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head. Him dying was between him and the Lord.? RL Burnside

wreid75 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 17, 2017, 10:05:17 AM »

"some people say if you in trouble to call 911, I say call 357!" RL Burnside

wreid75 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 17, 2017, 10:08:25 AM »

You the blues aint nothing but a low down aching chill, If you ain't had 'em honey I hope you never will" Willie Brown

Rivers · « **Reply #7 on:** February 19, 2017, 02:18:02 PM »

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left - Oscar Levant, as quoted in On the 8th Day ? God Laughed (1995) by Gene Perret, p. 95

Stuart · « **Reply #8 on:** February 19, 2017, 05:23:17 PM »

?Why should I worry about dying? It?s not going to happen in my lifetime!?

--Raymond Smullyan

?If we don?t change direction soon, we?ll end up where we?re going.?

--Prof. Irwin Corey

Great men, recently departed.

Blues Vintage · « **Reply #9 on:** February 20, 2017, 02:57:46 AM »

"Anybody listening to long stretches of his recordings is likely to go stir-crazy" Tony Russell on Peetie Wheatstraw.

Stuart · « **Reply #10 on:** April 09, 2017, 12:20:37 PM »

?I?m old enough to know you can?t close your mind to new ideas.?

--John Goodenough, a 94-year-old professor at the University of Texas at Austin

Rivers · « **Reply #11 on:** April 12, 2017, 06:25:11 AM »

Play it while I think it over... - Bukka White, spoken over instrument break, Baby Please Don't Go, Sonet

Slack · « **Reply #12 on:** April 12, 2017, 07:29:08 AM »

Quote from: Stuart on April 09, 2017, 12:20:37 PM

?I?m old enough to know you can?t close your mind to new ideas.?

--John Goodenough, a 94-year-old professor at the University of Texas at Austin

Stuart, I was just reading this article
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/opinion/sunday/to-be-a-genius-think-like-a-94-year-old.html

Three cheers for late bloomers!

Johnm · « **Reply #13 on:** April 12, 2017, 09:05:48 AM »

"Says, I feel just like, mama, throwin' my slop jar in your face"

Kokomo Arnold--"Slop Jar Blues"

lindy · « **Reply #14 on:** May 14, 2017, 08:33:11 PM »

Music! What a splendid art, but what a sad profession!

Georges Bizet

Johnm · « **Reply #15 on:** May 22, 2017, 03:58:53 PM »

"But every good-bye ain't gone, baby, shut-eye sure ain't sleep
Every good-bye ain't gone, little woman, and the shut-eye sure ain't sleep
But I said one thing about it, baby, will you please remember me?"

"Don't Forget Me, Baby"--Frankie Lee Sims

All best,
Johnm

GerryC · « **Reply #16 on:** May 23, 2017, 05:27:09 AM »

"I never wonder to see Men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed."

"No wise man ever wished to be younger."

(Both Jonathon Swift)

frailer24 · « **Reply #17 on:** May 23, 2017, 12:23:55 PM »

"Now you can go to college, and you can go to school; But if you ain't got Jesus, you an educated fool." "Denomination Blues" -Washington Phillips

Blues Vintage · « **Reply #18 on:** May 24, 2017, 05:55:17 AM »

"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness." Franz Kafka

eric · « **Reply #19 on:** May 28, 2017, 07:54:59 PM »

"Trying to remember something that just isn't there is right up my alley."

-- Stuart

TenBrook · « **Reply #20 on:** May 30, 2017, 08:06:21 AM »

"Blackfoot singers, for example, know that in Blackfoot cosmology music was given to humans to help them solve the problems they must face in life."
- Richard Crawford, from 'America's Musical Life: A History'

Blues Vintage · « **Reply #21 on:** June 04, 2017, 04:58:54 AM »

"You hear these songs, and they?re incredibly moving. But when we talk about it as being raw or authentic, it discounts just how hard this stuff was to play and how musically sophisticated and innovative it was. There?s a sense of almost remarginalizing it by talking about it as this primitive music that sprung up in the cotton fields, when in fact, it?s incredibly skilled and impressive music".

Amanda Petrusich, author of Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World?s Rarest 78 rpm Records.

DerZauberer · « **Reply #22 on:** June 06, 2017, 08:28:12 AM »

Forgive me if you've heard this one before (alas I am new here and have not yet read back on all of the material)... but this one is a perpetual favourite of mine that I use especially in all kinds of forums where people don't know what they are talking about when they talk about "Blues":

"The blues is not a plaything like some people think they are." - Son House

Rivers · « **Reply #23 on:** June 06, 2017, 08:23:12 PM »

Yep DZ, that one is a goodie and is already lurking in the quote swamp.

lindy · « **Reply #24 on:** July 03, 2017, 04:39:52 PM »

?At my age, the hard part is getting to the gig. The playing is easy.?

--102-year-old Fred Staton, still getting paid gigs playing tenor sax

btasoundsradio · « **Reply #25 on:** July 05, 2017, 09:27:52 PM »

"after years of studying folklore, I've decided that it doesn't exist"
-John Fahey

Rivers · « **Reply #26 on:** October 25, 2017, 05:13:24 PM »

"I wasn?t too nervous? about waiting to be saved, he told The New York Times in 2006. ?I had my little wine and a couple of beers with me; I?m all right" - Fats Domino, NY Times obit, October 2017

Pan · « **Reply #27 on:** November 10, 2017, 02:30:22 PM »

"I'm beginning to notice some improvement."

Cellist Pablo Casals, when asked why, at the age of 93, he is still devoting 3 hrs a day for practicing.

Rivers · « **Reply #28 on:** May 05, 2018, 04:57:51 AM »

Added these 2017 entries to the quotes data today.

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