Edwin Starr Quotes

#1. The moral arguments against war are irrefutable. As the musician Edwin Starr put it, War. Hunh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.

Steven Pinker

#2. I had a lot of friends in high school and in college, and we had a good time.

Ricky Williams

#3. When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright.

Erich Fromm

#4. The record industry is a world within itself.

Edwin Starr

#5. He would make her laugh every night that they made love. He would make love to her once for every time she giggled.
She burst into laughter then, and he grinned.
"That's one.

Elise Forier Edie

#6. Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition.

Edwin Starr

#7. Man I been did that. Man I been popped off. And if she aint tryna to give it up she get dropped off.

Nicki Minaj

#8. What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear boredom the way mortals fear death.

Catherynne M Valente

#9. And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.

Edwin Starr

#10. I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision.

John Lennon

#11. Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended.

Edwin Starr

#12. Rumpole, you must move with the times."
"If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them.

John Mortimer

#13. The "question" is the source of human evolution and revolution.

Ted Agon

#14. Having grown up Protestant, I was unfamiliar with St. Francis. Then I watched the movie 'Brother Sun, Sister Moon' ... I just became fascinated with the character of St. Francis. What I saw in that movie was a man who had fallen in love with God, someone for whom God was everything.

Rich Mullins

#15. I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.

Edwin Starr

#16. It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

Edwin Starr

#17. Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.

Edwin Starr

#18. If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.

Edwin Starr

#19. War is the enemy of all mankind.

Edwin Starr

#20. I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.

Edwin Starr

#21. Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people who take pictures, you know, carry a camera. Because if I did I'd have stack's and stack's and stack's of different act's. I got a lot here - I know what I done.

Edwin Starr

#22. In thought there always exists a certain amount of internal rebellion;

Victor Hugo

#23. War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.

Edwin Starr

#24. War can't give life, it can only take it away.

Edwin Starr

#25. You can only be lucky if you have a place to record.

Edwin Starr