John Dawson Winter III (Johnny Winter) Quotes
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.
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Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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God has created us and poured love into our hearts so that we may do our best to alleviate the suffering that is around us.
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We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing.
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I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
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I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
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I do not know Tyrone Power. I fucked him a lot, but I do not know him. Gentlemen, this meeting is over.
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My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.
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Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.
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I think I have always made really beat-driven pop-rock records.
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I mean, I'm a writer, actor, AND director. Not to rock the boat or anything, but compare that to a carpenter and, in the end, who is the better man?
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We don't know that Venus had oceans, but there's every reason to believe it did.
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I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll.
