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

• A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Good
  • Man
  • Woman

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

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Music
  • Love
  • Beatles

• Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Man
  • Being
  • Silly

• For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.

  

  Washed Out
  • Great
  • Me
  • Creativity

• 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

• You learn the most by listening and so, to me, always just listening, always just paying attention and finding out what it is that people see in somebody like them. You find those things, and you try to figure out how to fit them into who you are, who you want to be, and how you want to lead.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • People
  • Attention
  • Listening

• I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Guy
  • Best
  • Looking

• It's ironic, really. Guys should be excited that I got Kristen Bell. If Brad Pitt gets Kristen Bell, it's like, 'Well, of course he did.' With me, it should be, 'Oh good, a normal-looking guy got her. Maybe I'll get me a Kristen Bell.' But guys hate my guts for always dating women I have no right to be with.

  

  Dax Shepard
  • Good
  • Women
  • Guy

• In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.

  

  Maura Tierney
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Boy

• In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Up
  • God
  • Children

• I love Calvin Klein underwear. That's the only kind of underwear I wear.

  

  Trey Songz

• 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