Sonny Terry Quotes

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

Sonny Terry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 24, 1911 - March 11, 1986

Topics

MusicMyselfCultureMindDeepYou

I love a really good storyline.

Jim Broadbent

LoveGoodReallyStorylineI Love

Instead of piling up food in my fridge that says 'Come eat me!' I keep enough for only a couple of days. And I rarely have treats around that might tempt me late at night, which is when I usually crave something really fattening. What am I going to do? Drive out at 11 at night just to satisfy a craving? No, that's crazy.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

FoodMeCrazyNightDriveEnough

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

Maurice Sendak

FatherMotherStupidPsychoticEver

Rotgut was, to me, just this way to get into the underground of Manhattan where you have these little pockets a villain could rise from; a rot in the bowels of Manhattan. It led to these stories that were just very creepy.

Ann Nocenti

MeVillainYouRiseWayLittle

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

Stephen Rea

SmilePeopleMeCameraAskOut

Everybody who worked in film misses holding pieces of film, holding it up to the light, and seeing exactly where something was image-wise.

Amy Heckerling

LightSeeingUpPiecesSomething

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.

Jared Diamond

LearningHopeMeMediaSeeRadio

The best story is the story that gets to the most people.

Diogo Morgado

BestPeopleStoryMostGets

I personally pay, through the majority of my stock and through cash, college tuitions of our full-time employees' kids. Life-changing events are generally covered by Boxed as well.

Chieh Huang

CollegeEmployeesEventsPayThrough

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting.

Bobby Darin

FirstOutSingComeExcitingFew

The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.

Arundhati Roy

AngerPeoplePoliticalYouKnowWay

One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever I go, and some of them end up being really crazy ones.

Sunidhi Chauhan

TravelCrazyEndBagPhotographyGo

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