Diddley Quotes

#1. You know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.

Jeff Hawkins

#2. Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.

Ian Anderson

#3. He glared at Mr. Diddley's yellow-toothed smile, and thought how he'd like to shove a toothbrush in his mouth and teach him how to use it.

Justin Swapp

#4. Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

Warren Zevon

#5. I've often said that far more sensible than a 'make poverty history' campaign would be a 'make wealth history' campaign. It is, after all, the wealthy people who do all the damage. The less money you earn, the fewer resources you use up.

Tom Hodgkinson

#6. If people are not making mistakes, they are not trying new things. If they are making the same mistake twice, they are not learning new things!

Walter C. Wright

#7. Diddley dee I have got to pee

Chris Howard

#8. The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black, soulful, authoritative, ultra-tight, ferocious, uppity, defiant music that from the Howlin' Wolf, the Muddy Waters, the Lightnin' Hopkins, the Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard.

Ted Nugent

#9. You could put Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on one side of the stage, and James Brown on the other, and you wouldn't even notice the others were there!

Bill Wyman

#10. Do what is uncommon; do it in the uncommon way

Israelmore Ayivor

#11. A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.

Ani DiFranco

#12. With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.

John Mellencamp

#13. I think the rules where different there. It was all about science, but the science was magical. It didn't care about whether something could be done. It was about whether it should be done, and the answer was always, always yes.

Seanan McGuire

#14. Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.

Bo Diddley

#15. There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records.

Syd Barrett

#16. I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get.

Bo Diddley

#17. There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.

Randy Bachman

#18. How can you rank BYU No. 1? Who'd they play - Bo Diddley Tech?

Bryant Gumbel

#19. Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

#20. Buildings on the riverbank. He took the last hundred-krone notes and put them in his money belt. He had heard that in St. Petersburg

Jo Nesbo

#21. Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.

Bob Marley

#22. Isn't it generally known that you have to overlook flaws in people you date, to some extent? I mean, you expect them to overlook your flaws. It's only fair that you overlook some of theirs.

Adam Selzer

#23. It's a very sweet and often problematic situation where people feel like they know me and they're concerned for me. It creates these strange little intimate moments.

Mike Mills

#24. If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.

Robert Pattinson

#25. I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.

Bo Diddley

#26. If you think all men are created equal, you haven't seen Bo Diddley in the shower.

Ronnie Hawkins

#27. Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

Charles Caleb Colton

#28. When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.

D. A. Pennebaker

#29. I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs, just bands.

Ronnie Hawkins

#30. You look like you bin whupped with a ugly stick.

Bo Diddley

#31. I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated.

Eric Clapton