Elvin Bishop Quotes

I'm probably the only guy in the world who's played with Lightning Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Hendrix, Duane Allman, B.B. King.

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• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Why
  • Poverty

• Cynicism is humor in ill health.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Health
  • Humor
  • Cynicism

• My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Music
  • Love
  • Beatles

• I hate negative ads in general.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Hate
  • Negative
  • General

• Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Singing
  • Look
  • Divorce

• Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Success

• Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • World
  • Live
  • Why

• We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Theatre

• People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • More
  • Optimistic

• My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • World
  • Great
  • Great Things

• The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Business
  • Black

• The thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Help

• To be honest, for me, my main workout is when I'm on stage. Even though I make pop music, I don't think I perform in the classic 'pop star' sort of way. I'm very active on stage; I always end up dripping in sweat afterwards. It's always like a full-on, wild performance, so that's pretty much like my exercise, I would say.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Up
  • Music
  • Pretty

• Do not let anyone tell you it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America. We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Done

• I live in a world where there's magazines and blogs, and people feel like they are allowed to criticize me, and in the meanest way.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• 'Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction.

  

  Ben Browder
  • Science

• Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.

  

  James Bay
  • Feeling
  • Small

• The whole world of publishing is moving to electronic, but when you put a poem on a screen and you increase the type size, the shape of a poem changes.

  

  Billy Collins
  • World
  • Moving

• I walk around a lot. People come up to me and say 'Hi,' but not that often. I mean, I get it plenty often, but sometimes I wish they'd come up to me more! I mean, I'm just a regular guy.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • People
  • Up
  • Guy

• I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, 'God screwed the pitcher.' And I don't know how else you look at it.

  

  Bobby Knight
  • God
  • Home
  • Help

• I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Think
  • Pay
  • While

• I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Alien

• I'm probably the only guy in the world who's played with Lightning Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Hendrix, Duane Allman, B.B. King.

  

  Elvin Bishop
  • Guy
  • Played