Top 64 Fillmore Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
Utah Phillips
#3. I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.
Ronnie Montrose
#4. Monterey, I remember, but I seem to remember the Fillmore West, that we played the week before Monterey. That was much more memorable for me. The first time in San Francisco. They were good gigs.
Roger Daltrey
#5. I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.
Lucinda Williams
#6. I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.
Ice-T
#7. I came out to California from Texas, to the Haight, and the Fillmore and all that stuff, and totally got the bug.
Christopher Cross
#8. See, there's only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that - the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
Jerry Garcia
#9. I went to see Mogwai at the Fillmore, and that was both the loudest and quietest concert I've ever been to.
Chino Moreno
#10. I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.
Paul Stanley
#11. The music that I was playing and writing in those early years, that I was importing to Europe, was quintessentially New York music in a way that I always hoped it would be. I wanted my concert music to be as distinctive as Zappa at the Fillmore East, and I think I ended up doing that.
Philip Glass
#12. Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different.
Barack Obama
#13. After the week at the Fillmore we flew down to L.A. to hang out and pick up whatever gigs we could. We did a gig in Santa Barbara on July 1st and then the next night we opened for Sam & Dave at the Whisky ...
Mitch Mitchell
#14. I was always the Doubting Thomas of the bunch, and I don't think I was convinced about the Allman Brothers until 'Fillmore East' hit - that one removed all doubt!
Gregg Allman
#15. I love playing the Fillmore. I love the walk from the hotel and climbing up those old, iron stairs that lead to the stage. I imagine Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix and the Doors and all those other great bands climbing those same stairs.
Patti Smith
#16. I don't think that you can rehash music that was born in the Fillmore East and came from a whole different set of social and emotional circumstances. The situation has changed. Let's get real about this.
Robert Plant
#17. Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
Millard Fillmore
#18. Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.
Millard Fillmore
#19. When the mind opens by speaking denials, this true Self that philosophers have so long striven to free shows itself all glorious with wisdom, strength, and holiness ... Denial of evil is a word of Truth.
Myrtle Fillmore
#20. When we commune with the spirit within and ask for new ideas, they are always forthcoming.
Charles Fillmore
#21. Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.
Charles Fillmore
#22. The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.
Millard Fillmore
#24. I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled.
Millard Fillmore
#25. Let the God within you express itself through you in the world without.
Charles Fillmore
#26. Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
Charles Fillmore
#27. We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.
Charles Fillmore
#28. The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.
Millard Fillmore
#29. God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.
Millard Fillmore
#31. There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been.
Charles Fillmore
#33. Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do
Charles Fillmore
#34. May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.
Millard Fillmore
#36. It is necessary to give freely if we are to receive freely. The law of receiving includes giving. The knowledge that substance is omnipresent and that people cannot, therefore, impoverish themselves by giving (but rather will increase their supply) will enable us to give freely and cheerfully.
Charles Fillmore
#37. It is the law of Spirit that we must be that which we would draw to us. If we would draw to us love, we must be love, be loving and kind; if we would have peace and harmony in our environment, we must establish it within ourselves.
Charles Fillmore
#38. Nature is surely the glorified face of God. See the beauty about you and ... see the manifestation of the infinite Mind.
Myrtle Fillmore
#39. You do not have a problem except the one that is in your own mind, and you put it there!
Myrtle Fillmore
#40. The mind of the spirit will guide you in perfect ways, even in the minute details of your life, if you will let it do so.
Charles Fillmore
#41. We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.
Charles Fillmore
#42. All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
Charles Fillmore
#43. The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.
Charles Fillmore
#46. (Mason) took a swig of his drink and shuddered. 'Whoa - little too strong there bartender.' He scrunched his face. 'Oh shit, I am the bartender.
Martin Fillmore Clark
#47. Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.
Millard Fillmore
#48. Right here and now the great work of character-building is to be done, and whoever neglects present opportunities, looking forward to a future heaven for better conditions, is pulling right away from the kingdom of heaven within himself.
Charles Fillmore
#49. I fairly sizzle with zeal, energy, and enthusiasm; eager to do that which ought to be done by me today.
Charles Fillmore
#50. An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.
Millard Fillmore
#51. The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.
Millard Fillmore
#52. I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness.
Myrtle Fillmore
#53. Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.
Charles Fillmore
#55. Deny that lack has any place or reality in your
thought or your affairs and affirm plenty as the only
appearance. Praise what you have, be it ever so little,
and insist that it is constantly growing larger.
Charles Fillmore
#56. The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.
Millard Fillmore
#57. God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till we can get rid of it without destroying the last hope of free government in the world.
Millard Fillmore
#58. We must learn to let go, to give up, to make room for the things we have prayed for and desired.
Charles Fillmore
#59. The Inexhaustible Resource of Spirit is equal to every demand. There is no reality in lack. Abundance is here and now manifest.
Charles Fillmore
#60. The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the service. Even the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous, and prosperous when it is filled with love.
Charles Fillmore
#61. The spiritual substance from which comes all
visible wealth is never depleted. It is right with you all the time and responds to your faith in it and your demands on it.
Charles Fillmore
#62. Keep on praying for faith, it is through prayer that you develop all your wonderful qualities of soul.
Myrtle Fillmore
#64. Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.
Charles Fillmore
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