Butch Trucks Quotes

I feel like the Cal Ripkin of rock n' roll.

Butch Trucks

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• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Second
  • Liked
  • Rembrandt

• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Stop
  • Building
  • Closing

• Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Religious

• Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Work
  • Museums
  • Walls

• I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• You are the music while the music lasts.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Music
  • You
  • Lasts

• Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Film
  • First
  • Impossible

• In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

  

  Ira Glass
  • You
  • Daily
  • Journalism

• I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Think
  • Actor
  • Dealing

• I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Diverse

• When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Learn
  • Show
  • Two

• I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Years
  • Tennis

• As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Government
  • Will
  • Own

• My whole deal is I want to have a principle-based, member-driven caucus.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Want
  • Deal
  • Caucus

• We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Good
  • History
  • Guilt

• My mum is, like, my biggest fan, and she's the one who will basically do all the publicity for me back home... She'll constantly be talking to me saying, 'Dan, what's going on? We've heard this. Tell us about it! Dad wants to know!' And so I'll give them as much information as I can, and Mom and Dad are both my biggest fans.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Marriage
  • Civil Rights

• They could never put me in a slot. They couldn't say Glen was 'country,' 'pop' or 'rock.' I'm crock, OK? A cross between country and rock. Call me crock.

  

  Glen Campbell
  • Country
  • Rock

• At the moment we're trying to keep what we've learnt. Because we learnt a terrific amount with 'Deep Purple In Rock,' it took six months to make that album: we think it paid off, really. I can honestly say that it's the first album we've been 100 percent satisfied with; it gave us a hell of a lot of confidence.

  

  Jon Lord
  • Trying
  • Rock
  • Confidence

• Not that I shouldn't have been traded - everyone gets traded at some point. But the way that it went down wasn't justifiable.

  

  Chauncey Billups

• When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Like
  • Become
  • Obsession

• I feel like the Cal Ripkin of rock n' roll.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • Rock