Bobby Keys Quotes

#1. The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.

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#2. It doesn't matter how many times I've played 'Brown Sugar', I never get tired of playing it.

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#3. Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god.

Machado De Assis

#4. You are your own beginning. Every day, every hour, every minute, you start again. There is no point wishing you were someone else, you are who you are - start there.

A.M. Homes

#5. When you're not on the payroll, and you want to continue the Beverly Wilshire lifestyle, but you're only geared for a Holiday Inn existence, things are gonna catch up to you.

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#6. I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.

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#7. The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. In the summertime, I played Little League baseball; football in the fall; basketball in the winter.

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#9. I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily break from the real book I'm writing. And then that becomes a real book too.

Lauren Oliver

#10. I try to play the best I can every time I play. But there's just some folks that seem to draw a little bit of that extra special out of you.

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#11. In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

Carol P. Christ

#12. Talking to other people while you're cooking, it doesn't come naturally.

Giada De Laurentiis

#13. It's not bad to cough. But cover your mouth when coughing. It's not bad to complain. But cover your mouth when complaining, else you'll spread infections of complains on us!

Israelmore Ayivor

#14. When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.

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#15. Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of the
moon.
It was only a glass because he looked in it. It was nothing he
could be told.
It was a language he spoke, because he must, yet did not know.
It was a page he had found in the handbook of heartbreak.

Wallace Stevens

#16. I play with toys. I have one plane that travels with me. It travels with the equipment.

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#17. I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.

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#18. The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.

Dick Wolf

#19. I've never thought of my name at the top of the marquee in any particular terms other than, you know, slight bewilderment.

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#20. Often, you know.' 'I don't know,' said the Caterpillar. Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper. 'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar. 'Well, I should like

Lewis Carroll

#21. I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old.

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#22. I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin' the right notes or the wrong notes.

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#23. We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.

Laurens Van Der Post

#24. Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.

Shannon L. Alder

#25. It's pretty scripted on the road: very organised and compartmentalised, and that's the way it has to be with so many people involved in a Stones tour.

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#26. I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes.

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#27. I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing.

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#28. that's what I love about you," he said. "You help the mantle of senility rest so gently.

Steven F. Havill

#29. It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.

Bill Watterson

#30. Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

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#31. We just get up there and play rock-and-roll music, man. Everybody sweats and has a good time.

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#32. If the people dig it, then I dig it. If the people wanna hear it, then I wanna play it.

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#33. You got to realize that the vision, the image, according to 1964 U.S. rock and roll standards, was mohair suit and tie, and nicey-nicey ol' boy next door.

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#34. John Lennon, who was a good friend of mine, he had one of the best senses of humor of any human being. And Keith Richards, fantastic sense of humor. They were smart, sharp. They had their own thoughts on matters.

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