Billy Preston Quotes

I'm playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don't have to sing it. I just have to play it. That's cool.

Billy Preston

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 2, 1946 - June 6, 2006

Topics

CoolPlayPlayingSingJust

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

Maya Angelou

GoodMusicBestPoetryBlackFind

I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.

Jeff Koons

FutureSonArtMeThinkingLook

As a physician, I would never encroach upon the religious freedoms of my patients.

Ami Bera

PhysicianNeverWouldReligious

The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.

Alphonsus Liguori

GodHeartManSpeakParadise

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Mary J. Blige

StrengthLiveMusicPowerPeopleMe

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash - a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A.

Milton Friedman

GovernmentThinkInternetYouWill

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

Josef Albers

NatureMoreRealAbstractionThan

The Resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

FaithResurrectionWithoutBeliefs

You can't always make out the words I sing with Soundgarden.

Chris Cornell

WordsYouAlwaysOutSingMake

I'm like an actor who obnoxiously says he doesn't watch his own TV show. It is extremely rare for me to read my own comics and have asked publishers to please stop sending them to me.

Christopher Priest

MeStopActorMy OwnRareOwn

I had a gorgeous mom. She was beautiful, so I lucked out there.

Christie Brinkley

BeautifulMomSheOutGorgeousHad

I hear so many of the young people today sing and I think they have a good voice, yet I wonder if they'll ever know that they sound alike.

Connie Smith

GoodTodayPeopleVoiceThinkYoung

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