Benjamin Booker Quotes

#1. Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

Don Meyer

#2. Through everything when you have these experiences in life it is important to remember the simple fact that family is always the main thing and most important part of your life.

Ekaterina Gordeeva

#3. In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.

Benjamin Booker

#4. New Orleans style is funky - it's just as experimental as the city. There aren't any rules. If you want to wear a polka-dot shirt and some crazy pants, you can get away with it there.

Benjamin Booker

#5. I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.

Benjamin Booker

#6. Remember, benchmark performance
beta
can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.

Paul McCulley

#7. As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.

Benjamin Booker

#8. Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.

Benjamin Booker

#9. There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.

Benjamin Booker

#10. The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.

Benjamin Booker

#11. The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good.

John Travolta

#12. I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.

Benjamin Booker

#13. Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

Benjamin Booker

#14. I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. That's it.

Benjamin Booker

#15. Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people early on combine roots music with more aggressive music.

Benjamin Booker

#16. I fight myself. I don't fight to break Ali's record or Sugar Ray Robinson's record. I fight to please myself. I know in my heart where I'm rated. I didn't fight in Ali's era. This is my era.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#17. There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

Brene Brown

#18. Whatever it was, he thought, whatever the strain and the agony, they were worth it, because they had made him reach this day

Ayn Rand

#19. My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm just strumming along and yelling.'

Benjamin Booker

#20. Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.

Benjamin Booker

#21. Lovely is admirable.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. I read French much better than I speak.

Cara Black

#23. My grandfather learned to swim in the Navy by getting thrown off a boat into the ocean. He had to learn fast. And I think I learn pretty well under pressure.

Benjamin Booker

#24. I've been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.

Benjamin Booker

#25. I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

Benjamin Booker

#26. I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a week, and then I went to shows and wrote. I did a lot of music writing before I actually started playing music.

Benjamin Booker

#27. You could do a hundred projects and still not have the fans that are there for Twilight.

Kellan Lutz