Chester Burnett (Howlin' Wolf) Quotes
I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.
-
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
-
I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
-
As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.
-
I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.
-
I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
-
Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
-
My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.
-
Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
-
Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
-
I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
-
When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.
-
Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.
-
Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.
-
We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.
-
I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.
-
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
-
Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.
-
What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.
-
If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't.
-
So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.
-
The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
-
Believe me, I did not come to London to cook farmed fish. All my fish are wild.
-
I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.
