Blues Brothers Quotes

#1. I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film or in theater. I think that's like my 'Blues Brothers' mission.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#2. When I was a kid watching "The Blues Brothers," I could not think of a better thing than watching 300 cop cars crash into each other.

Will Forte

#3. After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

John Landis

#4. Of all their eccentricities, Sally most ferociously mocked the habit Lobsang and Joshua had developed of watching old movies in the bowels of the Mark Twain. (Joshua was glad she hadn't been on board when the two of them had dressed up for The Blues Brothers.)

Terry Pratchett

#5. I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

Eddie Floyd

#6. There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on ... we had some good times.

William Bell

#7. My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.' I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart!

Richard Hammond

#8. If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts.

Todd Barry

#9. Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

Steve Cropper

#10. A little bit South you've got Macon, Georgia - home of the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band and Capricorn Records. And off to west you've got Delta blues. Sprinkle Southern gospel over the top of that, and you're talking about where I came from. I loved all of that music.

Travis Tritt

#11. Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces destruction also faces the opportunity to enter a period of renaissance. I think that, barring an accident, the wish to survive will keep us from a nuclear war.

Peace Pilgrim

#12. The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination.

Charles Buxton

#13. I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

Dan Auerbach

#14. we are on a mission from god

The Blues Brothers

#15. When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.

Brian Tracy

#16. Elwood- "It's a 106 miles to Chicago,
We got a full tank o' gas,
half a pack of cigarettes,
it's dark,
and we're wearing sunglasses."
Jake- "Hit it.

Blues Brothers

#17. The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.

Bill Medley

#18. Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.

Adolph Gottlieb

#19. Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

Rowan Williams

#20. Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

James Hogg

#21. The heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart.

Adrian Rogers