Derringer Quotes

#1. In Texas, rocks are considered an adequate weaponry during schoolyard scuffles. Dallas children carry a brace of loaded pistols, a concealed Derringer, and a 6 inch Toadsticker in one boot. That's the girls of course. Boys bring howitzers to class.

Mary Doria Russell

#2. I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.

Rick Derringer

#3. So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.

Rick Derringer

#4. I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

Rick Derringer

#5. Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny's house, so we could rehearse every day.

Rick Derringer

#6. I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business.

Rick Derringer

#7. Wanting an honest opinion about my art from someone whose opinion I respect makes me feel vulnerable. It's a great space to be in.

Romany Malco

#8. Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.

Rick Derringer

#9. If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.

Rick Derringer

#10. I have never used steroids. Period.

Rafael Palmeiro

#11. Tranq'd by your own gun,"Lev says."How pathetic.

Neal Shusterman

#12. I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and rarely say anything other than 'Pass the salt' or 'If you're not going to eat that, can I have it?'

Neil Gaiman

#13. It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

Rick Derringer

#14. I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or whatever you want to call it, can be channeled into a positive direction that actually helps people.

Rick Derringer

#15. Real love is a long apprenticeship.

Michael D. O'Brien

#16. Rock and roll hoochie koo, lawdy mama, light my fuse.

Rick Derringer

#17. My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.

Rick Derringer

#18. Milkshakes make the world seem less shitty.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#19. While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

Warren Buffett

#20. We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?

Sharon Kay Penman

#21. This Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour / Hippiefest roster promises a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the best, legendary artists of our lifetime. I can't wait to be a part of it.

Rick Derringer

#22. I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

Rick Derringer

#23. The first time I heard Johnny play at the Fillmore East, I wasn't really impressed. He had come on the scene with everybody telling me how great he was, and I didn't hear it.

Rick Derringer

#24. We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the studio, it was totally easy, as we knew exactly what we wanted to do.

Rick Derringer

#25. I started to investigate and unearth an old faith which for thousands of years we philosophers used to build on as the safest of all foundations - which we built on again and again although every previous structure fell in: I began to undermine our faith in morals . But ye do not understand me? -

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices.

Rick Derringer

#27. I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

Rick Derringer

#28. And what makes me happy now has changed as well ... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy.

Rick Derringer

#29. I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

Rick Derringer

#30. Never for one minute have I taken you for reality . . . You are a lie, you are my illness, you are a phantom . . . You are my hallucination. You are the incarnation of myself . . . of my thoughts and feelings, but only the nastiest and stupidest of them.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#31. Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

Plato

#32. In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again.

Rick Derringer

#33. I care more about an agenda than story and character.

Ivy Meeropol

#34. There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer.

Rick Derringer

#35. Brenda did some little vocal arrangements for us and she got to sing as well. So, we're happy to be able to work together and that's another reason why we look forward to doing more of these.

Rick Derringer