Top 100 Helm Quotes
#1. A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.
Levon Helm
#3. When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.
Joni Mitchell
#4. I knew that we'd have a big following because the graphic novel [ The Walking Dead] is so popular, and I knew that with Frank Darabont and Gale Ann Hurd at the helm that we were doing something very special.
Laurie Holden
#5. Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.
Jon Ronson
#6. By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.
Levon Helm
#7. I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
Laura Dekker
#8. Being an entrepreneur is really exciting for me. Whether it's creating something or just building a company and giving others the opportunity to build a career, I think it's exciting to be at the helm of these types of activities.
Anousheh Ansari
#9. I followed someone who had very large shoes. He had very large shoes. Mr. J. R. D. Tata. He was a legend in the Indian business community. He had been at the helm of the Tata organization for 50 years. You were almost starting to think he was going to be there forever.
Ratan Tata
#10. A new voice pops up on the comm, relayed from the station. March. "What the frag are you doing, Triumph? Who's at the helm? I didn't give clearance for a pleasure cruise."
"Can't talk, Commander," Hit answers smoothly. "We're busy saving your ass.
Ann Aguirre
#11. We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.
Levon Helm
#12. There is a constant amount of weight in the world. If one person loses weight, another must gain it. If somebody dies, an appropriate number of babies are born. Do not stand too close to a person who is losing weight. That fat is just looming, looking for a person to inhabit.
Robin M. Helm
#13. More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces.
Nancy Birdsall
#14. Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control our surface reactions, but we can sit at the helm of our lives and control our responses to the blows of life.
Wilferd Peterson
#15. We were in our early twenties, playing and traveling, and didn't have to answer to anybody. It was the kind of life where if you had a problem today, you could be five hundred miles away from it the next day.
Levon Helm
#16. The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.
Levon Helm
#17. She was a wind on the ocean. She moved men, but the helm determined the port.
Zora Neale Hurston
#18. People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrating because I think it detracts from some of the art and some of the craft of what we do. I'm at the helm of it, and I think that is what people don't see.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#19. A service culture doesn't happen by accident. The company is always a reflection of the person at the helm. Their attitude, their values, and their commitment to service excellence will drive the actions of others in the organization. Always has ... always will.
Mac Anderson
#20. God is at the helm even when you think your ship is sinking. Just keep trusting that the captain knows more about where you're heading than you do, and eventually you'll get where you need to be.
Kevin Alan Milne
#21. We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.
Levon Helm
#22. Good times don't last long sometimes.
Levon Helm
#23. I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
Levon Helm
#24. If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.
Levon Helm
#25. Don't we all want what's best for each other?
Levon Helm
#26. Drums usually seem to tune themselves.
Levon Helm
#27. Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.
Levon Helm
#28. Real possession football, this. And Zico's lost it
John Helm
#29. Lord knows what would happen to the country with you at the helm." I laughed along because he was right. "I'd probably ruin it." Maxon continued to smile when he spoke. "But maybe it needs ruining.
Kiera Cass
#30. I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#31. Focus on people more than money. Without employees and customers, you're going nowhere. Make sure you never stop thinking about the customer's perspective. And make sure you have the right people at the helm of each area.
David Green
#32. Most of us have a soundtrack running in the background of our lives. I access that soundtrack when I write.
Robin M. Helm
#33. Contextualization is a good dance partner, but she should never be allowed to lead. Put her before the exegetical steps in your sequence of preparation, and problems will quickly emerge.
David R. Helm
#34. When you act like a nice guy, everyone examines your motives with a microscope. When you act like a conscienceless louse, they generally take you at face value.
Donald Hamilton
#35. Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.
Michael Helm
#36. I don't think I'm a millionaire, but I'm comfortable.
Levon Helm
#37. The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.
Levon Helm
#38. The USA are a goal down, and if they don't get a goal they'll lose.
John Helm
#40. In fact, Harold had never once paid attention to his watch other than to find out the time. And, honestly, it drove his watch crazy.
Zach Helm
#41. Viv Anderson has pissed a fatness test.
John Helm
#42. If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.
Levon Helm
#43. It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.
Sarah Palin
#44. Hades took off his helm. His complexion was even paler than usual. He had a bad case of helmet hair. He was sweating and nervous and blinking like he had something in his eyes. "I am Hades," he said in a squeaky voice. "I love you.
Rick Riordan
#45. I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.
Levon Helm
#46. I don't even know what bones I'm supposed to want to jump." "Only one, kiddo, and even you aren't that naive.
Nicole Helm
#47. I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.
Levon Helm
#48. On 'Stranger Than Fiction,' the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.
Marc Forster
#49. Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.
Joseph Barbera
#50. There is no God. Wait. I take that back, there is a God. There must be. The universe is just too perverse
there must be an idiosyncratic mind at the helm.
Elizabeth Kelly
#51. He's been on vacation for a year and month. Captain Kirk never left the helm when the Enterprise was under attack.
Eddie Griffin
#52. I've always thought it was easier for girls to sing harmonies because their voices can go to that higher plane so much more easy than a male voice.
Levon Helm
#53. When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.
Levon Helm
#54. Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.
Levon Helm
#55. If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.
Levon Helm
#56. The power of music just kinda kills all those ills; it cures everything and you've got more energy just from the music. And, I've never seen it fail. It's good for ya; real good for ya.
Levon Helm
#57. When we were unloading or going into a restaurant, the raisin got stepped on and smeared like a flapjack. The Hawk was displeased when he saw that. "Goddamn," he growled, "I gave you guys a hundred to get off cigarettes. I'll give you two hundred to get rid of these damn raisins!
Levon Helm
#58. I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.
Thomas Jefferson
#59. If things are going slow, I'm itchy.
Levon Helm
#60. You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.
Levon Helm
#61. Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.
Levon Helm
#62. With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.
Levon Helm
#63. My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.
Levon Helm
#64. Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.
Levon Helm
#65. I was thinking of making a drawing of Malik," she said. "He will be standing on a field of battle, taking off his helm and showing his pale skin. The soldiers around will be dropping their weapons and offering him medicine." Aedan laughed.
Jonathan Renshaw
#66. A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Henrik Ibsen
#67. Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.
Thomas Jefferson
#68. Well, somebody's got to sing. They won't hire you unless you sing.
Levon Helm
#69. Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#70. My job is defending the people and to hell with the laws. Your job is defending the laws and to hell with the people.
Donald Hamilton
#71. I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I knew a publishing house that was run on fear and paranoia, and I felt sorry for everyone who worked there. Needless to say, the person at the helm was not known for kindness, warmth, or grace.
Jane Green
#72. This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.
John Helm
#73. My mom, God love her, she was one of those Bible people. She thought it was wrong to bother anybody, regardless of race, color or religion. It just wasn't a Christian thing to look down on anybody, and that's what she taught us.
Levon Helm
#74. I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.
Levon Helm
#75. After I was old enough to work, they'd have to make three pies: one for each family and one for Lavon. And I'd guard mine.
Levon Helm
#76. If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.
Levon Helm
#77. No. We breathe. We pulse. We regenerate. Our hearts beat. Our mind create. Our souls ingest. 37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.
Zach Helm
#78. Gatekeepers and people that work in marketing are suckling pigs at the helm of Satan's phallus. They are the death of art, and ultimately the death of the human spirit.
Cockballs
#80. As rowdy as the place was, I've seen rowdier times playing fraternity parties in Oklahoma.
Levon Helm
#81. I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.
John Edwards
#82. Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm.
Thomas Gray
#83. I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really nice to me and The Band.
Levon Helm
#84. Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
Levon Helm
#85. The sound of the blues, rhythm and blues, country music, is what we lived for, black and white alike. It gave you strength to sit on one of those throbbing Allis-Chalmers tractors all day if you knew you were gonna hear something on the radio or maybe see a show that evening.
Levon Helm
#86. Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.
Levon Helm
#88. We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods and lies. It's hard for the thinking person to believe in narratives. And yet we want some place to invest our belief.
Michael Helm
#89. Los Angeles County government is a "Soviet-style system," with too many people only sort of in charge and no person sufficiently at the helm to take responsibility.
Zev Yaroslavsky
#90. She added, "Washington is the city of the soft heads and the chicken hearts.
Donald Hamilton
#91. Nothing is necessary for you in maintaining a Christian life, but just to stay by the helm, and put yourself where the power is. Come unto God, unite yourself to God, and the doing power you have is infinite.
Horace Bushnell
#92. Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.
Henry Ward Beecher
#94. The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.
Levon Helm
#95. Ensconced in our finite spaces,
We think we are at the helm of justice:
Degrading people's minutest of affairs.
Taranum
#96. The Listener's editor when I first joined was Russell Twisk, a surname of such surpassing beauty that I would have written pieces for him if he had been at the helm of Satanic Child-Slaughter Monthly.
Stephen Fry
#97. Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#98. The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#99. I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.
Levon Helm
#100. The inward working of God's goodness tends to produce an uncontrollable wildfire when He takes the helm of clinical, religious sobriety - when He turns our water into wine.
John Crowder
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