Jimmy Rushing Quotes

#1. Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.

Jimmy Rushing

#2. The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

Jimmy Rushing

#3. I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.

Jimmy Rushing

#4. Consider that all accomplishment is constituted by a series of resolved breakdowns.

Werner Erhard

#5. They know how to eat, shit, drive their cars, do menial work, watch television and produce equally stupid spawns of themselves; what the hell are they doing to help mankind?

Brad McKinniss

#6. Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

Michelle Shocked

#7. I liked roaming around by myself.

Jimmy Rushing

#8. I think that ... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.

Joe Perry

#9. Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#10. This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.

Jimmy Rushing

#11. When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are not going to accept what I'm doing today. That's bad for any artist, especially if what you're doing is not in line with what's happening today.

Jimmy Rushing

#12. I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!

Douglas MacArthur

#13. The kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive ...

Marcel Proust

#14. There are many different aspects to a formal meditation practice. But the real meditation practice is how you interface with life from moment-to-moment, no matter what's happening. Especially when you are awake, which is pretty much most of the time except for deep sleep.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#15. What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

Diane Duane

#16. It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

Jimmy Rushing

#17. There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.

Jimmy Rushing

#18. The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.

Jimmy Rushing

#19. Infinite riches in a little room.

Anonymous

#20. If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.

Jimmy Rushing

#21. The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

Jimmy Rushing