John Lee Hooker Quotes

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

John Lee Hooker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 22, 1917 - June 21, 2001

Topics

PeopleYouChoiceDownBluesRadio

I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National Board, and had duties and responsibilities that kept me busy after my day's work was done.

Rose Schneiderman

WorkTimeDayMeBusyDone

When I grew up, scientists were anti-social people who worked in basements and wore coats and worked with bunson burners, and now they're in our technology every day, and our technology has almost become fashion accessories.

Johnny Galecki

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The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

Douglas Haig

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Identity is as absurd and contradictory, I think - and certainly as mutable - as the human brain.

Chloe Benjamin

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I think, as a kid, whenever you say you want to be an actor, you get discouraged, so perhaps if I had have listened to those people telling me that, I might have gone down the route of a teacher. But I was never really going to do that.

Colin Morgan

TeacherPeopleMeThinkYouDown

I was in a band called the valentines and they broke up last week.

Bon Scott

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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

William Hazlitt

WiseWorldBetterWayMoreGet

We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether life is a onetime fluke or a near-inevitable phenomenon.

Seth Shostak

LifeWorldJudgeLife Is ABiology

I definitely learned that when you stay humble, you really focus on the work, and you remember that it's about the work. And you have people working with you who support you and love you, then nothing can go wrong.

Shanice Williams

WorkLoveHumbleFocusSupportYou

There's nothing like desperation to sharpen your sense of focus.

Thomas Newman

FocusNothingDesperationSenseYour

I'm saying nothing new that Dave Pasquesi is really good at what he does.

Timothy Simons

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I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.

Ringo Starr

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