John Lee Hooker Quotes

Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.

John Lee Hooker

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• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Single
  • Prayer

• More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Country
  • Respect

• Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Important
  • Help
  • Small

• Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Job
  • Hate

• I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?

  

  Kate Bush
  • Artist
  • Human
  • Find

• One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Life
  • School
  • Home

• The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Way
  • Famous
  • Wanted

• Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Play
  • Write

• I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Theater
  • Arena
  • Park

• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • People
  • Country
  • Society

• I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Guy

• I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Always

• I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Think
  • Imagine

• I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Performance
  • Ballet
  • Opera

• Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • You
  • Attention
  • Decisions

• If you're thinking like that - 'Does this person want me for me?' - then you're gonna have a hell of a hard time falling in love, 'cause you're constantly thinking about what they look like on paper.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Person
  • Look

• I was 17, and a friend said, 'Man, you've got to listen to this song,' and he played 'Man to Man.' From there on, I was hooked on country. Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Clint Black. Every show that came through America West Arena, I was there.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Country
  • America
  • Song

• I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a brain-section issue.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Writing
  • Hand
  • Brain

• I'm an actor. 99.9% of all actors in the world have been in denial towards the military.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • World
  • Military

• Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Time
  • Taken

• I think it's difficult to forget things that are unresolved.

  

  Chris Van Allsburg

• Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.

  

  John Lee Hooker