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Butch Trucks Quotes

I've gotta be the only father begging his son to leave a six-figure job to go play in a rock n' roll band!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 11, 1947 - January 24, 2017

Topics

Father Son Job Play Go Rock

You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our leaders as being above us, even though they must still relate to us.

Think You Too Much Know Why Never

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

Toni Cade Bambara

Job Revolution Make Writer

I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.

Community Museums Up Where Religious

Everyone knows I like to fight injured. Half the fights I've taken, I've always been injured.

Robert Whittaker

Fight Always Everyone Half Been

I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful.

Myself Writing Powerful Write Always

I take a ton of pride in what our flag and our anthem stands for.

Pride Flag Take Our Anthem Ton

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

Dress Mask Clothes Go Sometimes Out

After Mad Season, I started writing my own music for Pearl Jam and brought it in. 'Given To Fly' came out of that, and so did 'Faithful' - those were on 'Yield,' which came after Mad Season.

Music Writing Fly Mad My Own Out

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.

Life Father Whom Fact Expected Were

Bayern had no international success in the years before I joined, and my goal was actually to play at the best possible level, which would have meant winning the Champions League.

Success Best Winning Goal Champions

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.

Pinetop Perkins

Myself Old Hard Pieces Piano Beat

Young people don't want to sit at home and watch television; they'd sooner be out doing their own thing.

Home People Doing Television Young

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