Bob Wills Quotes

#1. Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

George Strait

#2. To join Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys was like throwing a baseball around in your front yard and somebody coming over and signing you to play for the New York Yankees.

Johnny Gimble

#3. I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.

Buck Owens

#4. Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

Willie Nelson

#5. When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.

Waylon Jennings

#6. I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.

Merle Haggard

#7. If the song was upbeat, we'd get out a funky Harry Connick, Jr. album, some Louis Prima big band, or a Bob Wills swing record for inspiration and swing for the fence, hoping to get that 'soundtrack to your life' vibe. And if it was a slow song, we'd go the other way and really make it worshipful.

Bart Millard

#8. I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Johnny Gimble

#9. I owe my discovery of the Hot Club of Cowtown to Kinky Friedman, leader of the Texas Jewboys. When I saw that Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys were headlining the 2003 Santa Clarita Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, I thought it my duty to check out the band that had inspired the Texas Jewboys.

Clive Sinclair

#10. It's been a bit tricky trying to establish a 'designer' profile and not a designer-cum-girl-around-town.

Phoebe Philo

#11. I believe our recognition of reality's complex dimensions is a consequence of our solitude.

Dean Koontz

#12. Now losers have this advantage, that though their own folk disapprove of them they are generally popular with everyone else. Having no work to chain them, they became public property. Just

Rabindranath Tagore

#13. Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.

Robert Charles Wilson

#14. I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

Boris Johnson

#15. Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

Anna Gunn

#16. I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history.

Seann William Scott

#17. Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

Beatrix Potter

#18. And by knowing what we fear, don't we know what we care about, how we are measuring our worth, what success looks like? I asked. So isn't fear helpful, then?

Patti Digh

#19. Lonely and isolated people who feel their solitude more intensely within the busy life of the streets. They are what George Gissing called the anchorites of daily life, who return unhappy to their solitary rooms.

Peter Ackroyd

#20. No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

Henry Ward Beecher

#21. Honest people never fear the truth.

Frank Sonnenberg

#22. I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.

Tom Baker