Diddley's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Acknowledging weakness doesn't make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that he understands what everyone else has known for some time. When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of your team, it is never new information.

Andy Stanley

#4. 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

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

Bo Diddley

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Ronnie Hawkins

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

Bo Diddley

#10. Learns a lot and lots more to learn.

Abhishek Kumar Singh

#11. It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

Publilius Syrus

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

Bryant Gumbel

#13. Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.

Gordon Neufeld

#14. 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

#15. She looked up at me with a polite smile, her dark hair long and appealing ... I liked the smile.
Maybe I didn't look like a beaten-up bum. Maybe on me it just looked ruggedly determined.
"I'm sorry, sir," she said, "but the addiction counseling center is on twenty-six."
Sigh.

Jim Butcher

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

Bo Diddley

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

Bo Diddley

#18. existence is humiliation, anyway.

Steve Toltz

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

Ani DiFranco

#20. I'm not saying it will always be easy because we are human. Two people in love will always have uphill battles but it's how you handle those challenges that truly matter.

Kathryn Perez

#21. Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Doris Day

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Diddley dee I have got to pee

Chris Howard

#25. The word salad here means any vegetable eaten raw or uncooked, e.g., a bowl of cold pasta in olive oil with a token vegetable is not a salad. I encourage my patients to eat two huge salads a day, with the goal of consuming an entire head of romaine or other green lettuce daily. I

Joel Fuhrman

#26. In the background, while you crochet and golf and browse cat videos, science is fighting against your stupidity. No other human enterprise is fighting as hard, or at least not fighting and winning.

David McRaney

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

Warren Zevon

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

Ian Anderson

#29. Do you become in visible?'
'No. I'm there, if you know how to look. I stand between the place you look at and the place you see. Behind what you expect to see. If you expect to see me, you do. I listen in places where no one expects me to be.

Patricia A. McKillip

#30. 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