Stephen Henderson Quotes

Blues is life, you know? An appreciation for the depth of life and the fact that hard times strengthen you and make you ready - blues, a lot of times, is about the loss of love.

Stephen Henderson

• Appreciation
• Blues
• Hard Times

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• I've always respected and appreciated Punk, but we never really hung out. We came from the same route, but we didn't necessarily hang out in the same circles. I've always had a great appreciation and respect for his hard work.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Work
  • Great
  • Respect

• I would hope there would be a greater appreciation by casual sports fans of the incredible skill and passion of our players.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Hope
  • Passion
  • Sports

• I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Blues

• When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • You
  • Rest
  • Blues

• I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Always
  • Blues
  • Liked

• Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Hope
  • Despair
  • Blues

• I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • You
  • Jazz
  • Blues

• The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

  

  B. B. King
  • Me
  • Blood
  • Blues

• There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Life
  • Business
  • Trust

• I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Remember

• I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into much more. It was a little before my time and I think it was sort of grappling with these intellectual ideas that were a little advanced for my young mind. At the time. But now I have a much deeper appreciation for it.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Soul
  • Growing
  • Teacher

• Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Freedom

• Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• I love eye makeup. I really like doing a cat eye, playing with liquid liners and different colors of liners, like emerald and deep blues, combining them with black.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Like
  • Colors
  • Blues

• If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Action
  • Understanding
  • Appreciation

• I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Soul
  • Loved
  • Blues

• 'You’ve no appreciation of high romance, that’s your trouble,' Lewis said, climbing in and starting the motor. Joseph nodded somberly. 'Boy meets girl, girl loses boy, everybody dies. I just don’t get it.'

  

  Kage Baker
  • High
  • Girl
  • Boy

• There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • World
  • Love
  • Appreciation

• 'Thrones' would be the perfect platform to send a progressive message because right now, our politicians aren't telling us any truths. It's hard to find a good, meaningful message, so I think it's up to storytellers, television shows, and films to have an impact on the world conversation. Is that not what film and television is for?

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids – he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Perfect

• Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Men
  • Power
  • Together

• He had the effect on her of a window being thrown open and fresh air and sunlight being let in.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Sunlight
  • Fresh Air

• Blues is life, you know? An appreciation for the depth of life and the fact that hard times strengthen you and make you ready - blues, a lot of times, is about the loss of love.

  

  Stephen Henderson
  • Appreciation
  • Blues
  • Hard Times