Earl Scruggs Quotes

I like drums, really, if they're under control.

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• When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • People
  • Fun
  • Control

• I don't like people cleaning my room.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Like
  • Cleaning

• I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • School
  • Think
  • Hand

• But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Place
  • Playing

• I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Like
  • Feel
  • I Feel Like

• Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Work
  • Control
  • Support

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Water
  • Evil
  • Like

• The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Control
  • Red
  • Difficult

• Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Think
  • Like
  • Independent

• The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Like
  • Crime
  • Plague

• I really am a cockeyed optimist.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Really
  • Optimist
  • Am

• I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Like
  • Actor
  • Show

• The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Experience
  • Like
  • Summer

• I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Like
  • Nothing
  • Him

• Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Really
  • Table
  • Dining

• Love, and do what you like.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Love
  • You
  • Like

• There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Wall

• Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Bad
  • Like
  • Sophisticated

• The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Control
  • Understanding
  • Study

• I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • Music
  • School
  • Style

• When we say nasty things about other people, we’re really criticizing something in them that we don’t like in ourselves.

  

  Craig Lancaster
  • People
  • Like
  • Nasty

• He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

  

  Bryant H. McGill

• I like drums, really, if they're under control.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Control
  • Like
  • Really