Top 40 Best Barbershop Quotes
#1. When I want to work on my material, I go to Benihana or the barbershop.
Tracy Morgan
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn't say, 'thank you very much' and turn the other cheek. Only Jesus Christ did that.
Arsene Wenger
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#11. I love Portland. I think it's one of the best cities - I obviously haven't been to very many places, but I had one of the best times I've had on a set there.
Mia Wasikowska
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Black movies don't have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That's not a name, that's just a location.
Chris Rock
#15. Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
Carl Schurz
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.
Karl Kraus
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. I think of fans like a barbershop. I want that debate.
Pitbull
#23. The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.
Evan Esar
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. At every step, somebody fell down and ceased to suffer.
Elie Wiesel
#27. Kate giggled. "Excellent choice."
"I always make excellent choices."
"I don't know about that."
"Of course I do. I picked ye, didn't I?
Whitney K.E.
#28. We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it.
Stacie Orrico
#29. 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
#30. I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
Val Kilmer
#31. If people are sitting in the barbershop talking about my butt, it's conversational. That's what people are gonna do.
Nicki Minaj
#32. There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.
Tina Weymouth
#33. 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
#34. When an intelligent person says a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing.
Marty Rubin
#35. I have liked remembering almost as much as I have liked living.
William Maxwell
#36. 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
#37. My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters.
Kevin Richardson
#38. Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
Rowan Atkinson
#39. I do not desire to die soon, because in Heaven there is no suffering. I desire to live a long time because I yearn to suffer much for the love of my Spouse.
Magdalena De Pazzi
#40. The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.
Andy Williams
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