Johnny Otis Quotes

#1. The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph.

Italo Calvino

#2. I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.

Charles Stross

#3. I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.

Seamus Dever

#4. The world did not end with a bang, nor did it end with a whimper. It was more of a chomp. And a slurp.

J. Rudolph

#5. A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life.

Anthony Marra

#6. Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

William Wordsworth

#7. I have always made impresarios a lot of money across my career and have never, so far as I am aware, given any of them heart attacks.

Montserrat Caballe

#8. We must substitute courage for caution.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

Johnny Otis

#10. I think you've got to worry when you start flying flags. There's a lot of political connotations that come with waving flags around the stage. But the flag will make an appearance. I think it's more likely to be draped around an instrument than waved around.

Simon Taylor-Davis

#11. Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.

Johnny Otis

#12. I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

Franz Kafka

#13. I'm an entrepreneur. I'm not a politician.

Robin Li

#14. Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

Johnny Rivers

#15. The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

Tyler Perry

#16. When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

Johnny Otis

#17. Johnny Guitar ... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together. I would hear him sing every night.

Etta James

#18. If you have laser-like brain it's not always focused on the most productive things. If you want to play Halo: Reach all day, that's fine, but if you want to accomplish some other things, here are some ways to do that using your innate nerd gifts.

Chris Hardwick

#19. Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

Johnny Otis

#20. People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I had a bit to do with one of those traditions.

Johnny Otis

#21. I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.

Johnny Otis