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Tony Iommi Quotes

In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.

Tony Iommi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: February 19, 1948

Topics

Past Go Know Way Something Going

I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys.

Jimmy Smith

Big Moose Those Sam Played Guys

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

Andre Holland

Black Who Read Souls Folk Wrote

I'll go on '60 Minutes,' and whereas other parents would be like, 'You did a great job. I'm so proud of you,' my mother will be like, 'Your hair - it was not nice.'

Maysoon Zayid

Mother Great Job Parents Hair Proud

I was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped.

Amy Smart

Growing Up Growing Years Up Stopped

One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

Stewart Udall

Best Energy Renewable Energy Out

Space music'd be really something... but they don't have no gravity up there. You couldn't have no downbeat!

Miles Davis

Space You Gravity Up Something

One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.

Josh Radnor

Man Sentimental Uplift Another

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

Dianne Feinstein

Today Health Medical Insurance Goal

After a while, when the writer is mature, it doesn't really matter - not because of finances but because of reputation. It doesn't really matter how many awards you get.

Derek Walcott

Reputation You Mature Matter Awards

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.

Christopher Alexander

Nature World Isolation View You

The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.

Brendan I. Koerner

Father Government America Attention

In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun.

Susanna Hoffs

Good Music Dance Fun Control Win