Gregg Allman Quotes

I play every show like it's my last. Fortunately, that's never turned out to be the case.

Gregg Allman

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• Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Strong
  • Dead
  • Older

• When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Interesting
  • Reading
  • Language

• As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Remember
  • Forever
  • I Can

• Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Inspiration
  • Bible
  • Europe

• There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Young
  • Losing
  • Sibling

• On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Know
  • Opinion
  • Smart

• In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Man
  • Growing

• In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • America
  • Think
  • Change

• You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Life
  • Death
  • You

• Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Observation
  • Brief

• I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Believe
  • Violence
  • Medicine

• All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Difficult
  • All Things
  • Rare

• My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Career
  • Me
  • Nothing

• When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • School
  • Play
  • Down

• Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Insecurity
  • Vanity
  • Apply

• Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • You
  • Joy
  • Hands

• We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about our own troubles.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Life
  • Better
  • Own

• He liked the vast openness of sky and prairie, and found loneliness a pleasure with so immense a domain to be alone in.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Alone
  • Sky

• Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.

  

  Luc Montagnier

• It's not about being the biggest or the place with the most pins in a map. We want to be the most influential. We talk about trying to build the most influential agency in the world.

  

  David Droga
  • World
  • Trying

• Each one of these bodies art-works which Arp made certainly signifies something, but it is only once there is nothing left for me to change that I begin to look for its meaning, that I give it a name.

  

  Jean Arp
  • Art

• It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Good
  • View
  • Limitations

• I look at the people's careers who I want to emulate, like Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Bernadette Peters... They've all found the key to longevity in this business, and that is diversifying, doing as many things as possible to keep yourself relevant, and so hopefully I'm on the same track as all those amazing women.

  

  Megan Hilty
  • People
  • Women
  • Business

• I play every show like it's my last. Fortunately, that's never turned out to be the case.

  

  Gregg Allman