Top 36 Lonnie Quotes
#1. My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery.
Alvin Lee
#2. Lonnie's monotonous speech gives him an advantage, the same advantage foreigners have: his words are not worn out. It is like a code tapped through a wall. Sometimes he asks me straight out: do you love me? and it is possible to tap back: yes, I love you.
Walker Percy
#3. The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.
Bill Kurtis
#4. Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
#5. Lonnie says it doesn't take long to write a song if you're stricken with a severe case of the Tennysons. He wasn't necessarily talking about a chart-climber.
Dan Jenkins
#6. But, kid, you can't color your world with Lonnie's crayons, if you know what I mean. Especially when he's only using one color.
Day Leclaire
#7. The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred dollars. But Lonnie Slocum assured her the Martin was a good investment, even if she never learned to play it better than an acid head who was into heavy metal.
Dan Jenkins
#8. I was thinking in a Scottish brogue, because I'd just heard this guy interviewed on NPR, Lonnie McSomething.
Patricia Gaffney
#9. Lonnie smiled and nodded as Herbert repocketed the cutter and produced a chopped-down, brass Zippo lighter, the one that he had carried in the seventies in Vietnam. St. Peter leaned down to the Crow woman and asked her if she had anything she wanted to say, and she told him that to her, there
Craig Johnson
#10. When Lonnie Mack came out with the guitar instrumental "Memphis" I thought, Oh God, finally somebody we guitar players can relate to !
Richard Betts
#11. Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though ...
B.B. King
#12. I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.
B.B. King
#13. My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.
Lonnie Donegan
#14. I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.
Lonnie Donegan
#15. I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.
James M. Cain
#16. There are good and bad in every walk of life, that's true." My father's shoulders sagged as if under a great weight. "And some who seem good might not be," he whispered.
Lonnie Bricker
#17. We want to remember that America is at its best when it's struggling to live up to its stated ideals.
Lonnie Bunch
#18. Many are convinced, who are not truly enlightened; are afraid of the consequences of sin, though they never saw its evil; have a seeming desire of salvation, which is not founded upon a truly spiritual discovery of their own wretchedness, and the excellency of Jesus.
John Newton
#19. There was something in the shape of his fingers that I hated.
Oscar Wilde
#20. It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one,
to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous,
to divide our army into two.
Sun Tzu
#22. Sisters are the true friends who ask how you are, and then wait to hear the answer.
Jill Shalvis
#23. Characters run and take you to new places. You just keep hold of their leash.
P.A. Fielding
#24. The shows weren't organized at all. They just happened.
Lonnie Donegan
#25. Oh, my other goal was that I wanted to talk about this area and this time in history. I wanted to talk about growing up in Oakland, a white kid, from this kind of generation of broken homes and listening to hip-hop.
Moshe Kasher
#26. I always thought I was singing American folk music.
Lonnie Donegan
#27. She was the clock, a clock that had lost its key, unwinding in the dark.
Sharon Cameron
#28. I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.
Wayne Rogers
#29. All the little risks I took were sort of like all the apartments I had moved into: I was finding the right spot.
Paula Scher
#30. Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedposts overnight. If your mother said don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite?
Lonnie Donegan
#31. Jeter's work ethic, kneaded into the dough and manifesting itself in the leavening of his metric loaf, has already nourished the dossier with which his contracts are negotiated.
Lonnie Wheeler
#32. I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own songs anymore. It's like producers these days have ghost producers; 'I don't produce, but I am a producer.'
Afrojack
#33. Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Iris Murdoch
#35. If you sit around and wait for it to happen, its going to happen.. its just going to happen for somebody else
Lonnie Scruggs
#36. Due to poor weather, low visibility and extreme winds, I was forced to make the decision to descend after receiving word that there was another week of the daunting weather around the corner. You just can't climb being blown off your feet!
Lonnie Dupre
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