Tribute Quotes

• Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Ridicule
  • Mediocrities

• Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Mediocrity
  • Caricature

• I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Pay
  • Beatles
  • Tribute

• The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Country
  • Citizen
  • Tribute

• In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.

  

  Dr. John
  • Up
  • Music
  • Interpretation

• It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

  

  Etta James
  • Record
  • Artists
  • Battling

• It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • People
  • Time
  • Game

• Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Humanity
  • Destiny
  • Tears

• Whatever people want to say, we go out there every night, and we give tribute to the songs that my brother wrote, to Ronnie and Allen Collins and Steve Gaines and Leon Wilkeson and everybody. We pay tribute every night to those people who have gone on.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Pay
  • Tribute
  • Every Night

• I like to think the Meat Puppets pay tribute to our chaos master, Gary Russell, every night. After all, as another famous puppet once said, "there is no try..."

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Pay
  • Tribute
  • Meat Puppets

• I think part of it is a tribute to Dimebag.

  

  Dan Donegan Disturbed
  • Part
  • Tribute

• How could I have kept out this incredible fiction? That's when it all started for me. I was, and still am, a HUGE Star Trek fan. "Songs Of The Ocean" is my tribute to this great story, and it's based on the Star Trek IV movie, the one in which they go back in time. [The Voyage Home ; It's the one where they bring a pair of whales to the future -ed.]

  

  Arjen Anthony Lucassen Ayreon
  • Home
  • Song
  • Ocean

• I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this record.

  

  Michael Stephen Portnoy Adrenaline Mob
  • Honor
  • Records
  • Legacy

• We always pay tribute to what the old Lynyrd Skynyrd has done - I'm very proud of that.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Pay
  • Tribute
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

• If this is a tribute show to Eddie, then I definitely want to be a part of it, and I know that he would want me to be a part of it also.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Show
  • Tribute
  • Eddie

• Thinking about Gary makes me feel good about our shambolic tribute the other night (which was actually fantastic, tapers be damned).

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Feel Good
  • Tribute
  • Think About

• This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • People
  • Good
  • Fans

• It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.

  

  T. H. White
  • Battle
  • Tribute
  • Ransom

• To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Beauty
  • Tribute
  • Virginity

• When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.

  

  Willard Wigan
  • Black
  • President
  • Barack

• Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods.

  

  Aristotle
  • Honor
  • Gods
  • Tribute

• We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

  

  Willie Stargell
  • Silent
  • Teammate
  • Tribute

• If we found some other dude, to sing I'd love to move on. Write some cool tunes and change the name and go on like that. I don't see continuing as Alice and replacing somebody. We're not trying to replace Layne. We want to play these songs one more time, and if it seems like the right thing to do, it'll happen. I don't know how long it will go or where it will take us. It's kind of a tribute to Layne and our fans, the people who love these songs. It's not some 'I'm broke and I need the money' situation. We love playing together.

  

  Sean Howard Kinney Alice in Chains
  • Songs
  • Tribute
  • Tunes

• Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.

  

  William Congreve
  • Enemy
  • Honor
  • Pleasure

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