Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Idland

We have musicians from as far away as Ontario and Seattle traveling all the way to Greenville to be a part of our first blues festival - this is exciting.

Larry Groce

There is no question that he is one of the most dynamic performers we've had. We will give him as much time as we can and really let him stretch out. At this point it is Buddy Guy and B.B. King who are the greatest blues men alive.

Jon Nicholson

We found her singing at a blues bar, ... where she was waitressing.

Larry Pleau

We're pleased to say that Bryce's career as a member of the St. Louis Blues will continue for several more years,

Sharon Bradford

For her to call us and cry the blues to us, you know, about how she's feeling and stuff.

Paul Benjamin

This is the longest-running continuous blues show in Maine. They really want to play here.

Frank Malfitano

There's an incredibly rich rhythm- and-blues and blues tradition in Detroit.

Randy Huth

It's a rubric of fast hardcore and random old blues stuff, like Lemon Jefferson and all these old blues guys. Also old power trios like Mountain and Cream.

Jim Sullivan

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.

Mike Bair

There is no other way I would love to travel than by air. It is just incredibly safe.

Jack Abramoff

As you can imagine, this day is incredibly painful for my family, friends and me.

Katrina Szish

It's not just that everyone looks very good, but very safe. They all go for the same look. Rachel Zoe is incredibly talented, but she styles 12 people who could all swap clothes.

Gil Bellows

It's the role of a lifetime and she's incredibly good.

Jim Calhoun

I told him he has to be more assertive. He's an incredibly talented kid but a very young kid. I think at times he's unstoppable.

Oliver Kahn

It was so incredibly lucrative that I really had to think about it for a long time.

Douglas Conant

You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with.

Sophia Amoruso

Creativity is incredibly important, but drive is equally so.

Sara Rue

What woman doesn't want to feel comfortable in a swimsuit? It's incredibly empowering.

Charles Spurgeon

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

Deborah Kerr

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Bernard Goldberg

A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich.

Cheryl Richardson

If beating ourselves up worked, we would all be thin, rich, and happy, wouldn't we?

Cheryl Strayed

Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

Charles Grodin

It seems there are no rich on death row.

C. L. R. James

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Bruno Tonioli

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

Billy Sunday

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Charles Rosen

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Camille Paglia

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living.

Boozoo Chavis

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Edmund Burke

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Allan Bloom

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Alexander McQueen

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition