Basement Quotes

• Every time I'd sing or play piano when I was a child, my dad would yell up from the basement, 'That's B-flat!'

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Sing
  • Basement
  • Piano Playing

• Great dark wings were spreading out from the alcove. The air undulated. Kendra felt like she was viewing the basement from far away, through a narrow tunnel.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Wings
  • Tunnel
  • Basement

• You can't be a legend in your parent's basement.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Parents
  • Legend
  • Basement

• I started recording in my sophomore year in high school. I recorded things on my cell phone in my basement.

  

  Juice Wrld
  • School
  • Phone
  • Recording

• I had tuberculosis in my mid-20s. I didn't have much work, was living in a damp London basement in a sleeping bag, and ate only every other day. I looked rough and felt very run down.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Work
  • Run
  • Tuberculosis

• The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Way
  • Apartment
  • Basement

• In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large house on the Champ de Mars in Paris, right between the Eiffel Tower and the Ecole Militaire. The home was quite amazing: At six stories, it spanned 15,000 square feet and featured marble staircases and a swimming pool in the basement.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Home
  • Business
  • House

• My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Mother
  • Sleep
  • Mad

• Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Players
  • Brothers
  • Drummers

• They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Place
  • Basement
  • Generic

• Every time I get in an elevator, the operator says the same thing to me: 'Basement?'

  

  Jack Roy
  • Time
  • Elevator
  • Operator

• I never trained in pro wrestling with The Sheik, but I did amateur wrestling with pro wrestlers in my dad's basement.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Trained
  • Basement
  • Pro-Wrestling

• I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • World
  • See
  • Difference

• You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Heart
  • Jesus
  • Track

• I loved the thing about Jamaican records, where they’d have a basement where they’d make the records and a pressing plant upstairs and, between the two, they’d have a shop. They’d record the thing, then the next day it’d be on sale as a white label. And Stiff had that vibe to begin with.

  

  Wreckless Eric
  • Record
  • Shop
  • Basement

• To create a comedy major, I ended up starting a comedy night in the basement of my dorm, and I promoted and produced my final project, which meant I faxed press releases from an old Apple IIC, or whatever it was, to newspapers, not knowing if that would work or if that's how you do things.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Create

• I'm constantly recording and playing down in the basement, and my voice is starting to sound really good. There's cracks and scratches in my voice that have been there since I was 19. It hasn't changed that much.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Changed
  • Recording
  • Basement

• Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • People
  • Audience
  • Basement

• I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Dog
  • Sea
  • Basement

• We see a lot of startup companies, people that have a home-based office, they've been working out of their basement for two or three years, and now their basement or kids cannot accommodate them any longer.

  

  Nancy Fox
  • Office
  • Companies
  • Basement

• It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Soul
  • Darkness
  • Human Mind

• You're just these kids from a small town. You get a record deal, and everything just goes so fast. In the span of five albums... in a way, the band that you started in your bedroom, or your basement or your garage, kind of becomes not your band anymore. It becomes something bigger than you could have known. No one really prepares you.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Band
  • Record
  • Basement

• For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Create
  • Novelists
  • Passage