John Lee Hooker Quotes

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

John Lee Hooker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MusicBaseballSongGamePlayWant

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

Joe Louis

GovernmentBoxingUpMillionBroke

I don't live my life in a social way. I don't put everything out on social media. I don't live that reality lifestyle. At the same time, I've always been private, ever since I was in high school.

Michael Ealy

LifeLiveTimeSocial MediaSchool

Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.

Simon Baker

NatureCapitalismGrowTableMore

Meditation hasn't separated me from my life and my friends and my work. It's just made my fear go away, so I can just be that much more engaged.

Rivers Cuomo

LifeWorkFearMeMy LifeFriends

I write every morning. From about a quarter to nine to a quarter to one. It might be nine to one, or 8:30 to 12:30.

Ruth Rendell

MorningWriteQuarterNineEvery

Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?

Rupert Murdoch

WhyOrderSomethingWouldBillion

Every day is a reminder to accept myself as I am.

Molly Tarlov

MyselfDayI AmEvery DayAcceptAm

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

Minoru Yamasaki

FutureTechnologyThinkBuildings

Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer.

Miuccia Prada

WomenMyselfFashionAdmitKnowWhy

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Louis D. Brandeis

HappinessPathProgressAmericaLies

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

ManMoreWrongedThanUnfortunate

I like to measure people by their accomplishments in life and how they consistently act.

Brandon Webb

LifePeopleMeasureActLikeHow

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