Billy Preston Quotes

#1. The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.

Billy Preston

#2. We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Sean Lennon

#3. I got a story, ain't no moral, I let the bad guy win every now and then.

Billy Preston

#4. I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of person.

Billy Preston

#5. It was great fun to be able to work with so many different artists. And I'm paying a tribute to the Beatles. I've just recorded some of their songs.

Billy Preston

#6. Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Alfred North Whitehead

#7. I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too.

Billy Preston

#8. You are so beautiful to me.

Billy Preston

#9. Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.

Mikhail Bakunin

#10. The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

Nevil Shute

#11. Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.

Lionel Tiger

#12. I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach.

Charles Dickens

#13. Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'.

Billy Preston

#14. Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.

William James

#15. Damn it!" Ethan hissed through his teeth when my fist collided with his stomach.
"You al reallyl need to stop fucking cursing.

J.J. McAvoy

#16. I'm playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don't have to sing it. I just have to play it. That's cool.

Billy Preston

#17. It's bad enough for me to make choices that hurt my own relationship with God. How much more serious is it to be the cause of someone else deciding to sin? Not only must I choose the pathway of holiness for God's sake and for my own sake; I must also do it for the sake of others.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#18. The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?

Billy Preston

#19. Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#20. I do believe that God has his hands on me and that he has work for me to do.

Billy Preston

#21. I hate it when people throw big sweeping generalizations at you that you can't even begin to interpret.

Karen Marie Moning

#22. But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

Georg Brandes

#23. I have a hard time with free time.

Shia Labeouf