John Dawson Winter III (Johnny Winter) Quotes

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

John Dawson Winter III

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• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

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• I'm a liberal, but I'm not biased. Seriously.

  

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• When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.

  

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• We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.

  

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• I agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates to all qualified candidates, including the Libertarians. If that happens, the Libertarian party will experience unprecedented growth.

  

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• I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

  

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• Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

  

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• You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

  

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• I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.

  

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• We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

  

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• In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.

  

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• You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

  

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• My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume.

  

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• I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

  

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• I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.

  

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• I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.

  

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• It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.

  

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• I was quite insistent. We have quite a few pranksters in the lab and I thought this was one of them. I even congratulated the man, ironically, on his Swedish accent.

  

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• At the end of my career, am I going to say I did well, but I didn't give it my all? I'd be very, very angry with myself if I didn't give 100 percent. If I gave my all and I got to whatever point in the world, I could look back and at least I say I did the best I could.

  

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• I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.

  

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• I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

  

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• I'm a villain. But hey, villains have fans, too. They might have more fans than the heroes, and I'm OK with that.

  

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• The success of 'Hidden Figures' proves that people are interested in, hungry for, stories about transcendent human experiences.

  

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• When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

  

  John Dawson Winter III