Barbershop Quotes

#1. I think of fans like a barbershop. I want that debate.

Pitbull

#2. Dresden was destroyed on the night of February 13, 1945," Billy Pilgrim began. "We came out of our shelter the next day." He told Montana about the four guards who, in their astonishment and grief, resembled a barbershop quartet. He told her about the stockyards with all the fenceposts gone,

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

Karl Kraus

#4. When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous.

R.L. Stine

#5. We employed a stocky Yorkshire woman to walk me home from school past the barbershop with the unhappy mynah bird. "Kill me!" it suggested as we passed by.

Elizabeth Mckenzie

#6. There is no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

Aldous Huxley

#7. Black movies don't have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That's not a name, that's just a location.

Chris Rock

#8. He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he'd walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.

Hunter S. Thompson

#9. There's things people say in the barbershop they won't even say in their own living room, because it's just one of those zones where nobody's going to judge you too much about your dumb opinion.

Ice Cube

#10. When I want to work on my material, I go to Benihana or the barbershop.

Tracy Morgan

#11. The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.

Harryette Mullen

#12. I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson.

George Clinton

#13. Before, my anxiety was singing solo. Now all this weird anticipation and jumbled excitement has added some strange harmonies into the mix. I'm a barbershop quartet basket case.

Jenn Bennett

#14. A Spaniard and a Pole worked in the barbershop where we got our hair cut. An Italian shined our shoes. A Croat washed our car. This was America.

Ilya Ilf

#15. If people are sitting in the barbershop talking about my butt, it's conversational. That's what people are gonna do.

Nicki Minaj

#16. My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

Clare Bowen

#17. Bernie Sanders has done a great job of, social media black kids know about him. Young black people progressives know about him. Through barbershops and barbershop tour that we have been on, we hit three barbershops a day. People know about him.

Killer Mike

#18. My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical.

Skylar Grey

#19. I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.

George Clinton

#20. There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.

Tina Weymouth

#21. No matter what barbershop you go to, there's always that guy who's just hanging around and doesn't do much, but knows everything that's going on in the community.

Deon Cole

#22. I'm not saying you have to learn Barbershop to be a great a cappella singer... but I am promising you if you do sing Barbershop, you'll be better than if you don't.

Deke Sharon

#23. My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters.

Kevin Richardson

#24. Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.

Rowan Atkinson

#25. I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.

Ned Beatty

#26. In the barbershop, there's democracy. You're a professor; you're an engineer; you're a garbage man, have at it. You got something to say, get down with it.

Michael Eric Dyson

#27. Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start.

Gretel Ehrlich

#28. My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

Abbas Kiarostami

#29. Do you know why we're all happy here, monsieur? Because it's the last house on the road.

Louise Penny

#30. Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

Peter Coyote

#31. no saint goes without sinning, and no sinner goes without having some saintly qualities. You can judge one for their mistakes, or you can love them for the flaws they try to correct.

C.M. Owens

#32. Maybe it was fate that I sat next to her that day, or serendipity, divine intervention, who knows? However you look at, I got seated next to the first girl to ever really steal my heart. I was in love from that moment on.

Renee Carlino

#33. An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.

Alberto Moravia

#34. Eat to Live, Not Live to Eat, Be Shadows of the Night, Be One With the Darkness, And Never Let in the Light

Pierre Roustan

#35. When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.

Gregory Maguire

#36. Make a written list of everything you love.

Rhonda Byrne