Top 39 Mayfield Quotes
#1. I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.
Jonny Lang
#2. All heat drained from my face. Holy shit. I hadn't even started my new job and already I was insulting my new boss ... right after sleeping with him. I was worse than Sylvie. "So you're - "
My speech eluded me.
"Jett Mayfield, the stingy SOB who just hired you." He held out his palm.
J.C. Reed
#3. I wanted to develop a guitar style where phrases and lines get there just in the nick of time, like with Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper. Subtleties mean so much, and there is a stunning beauty in them.
Robbie Robertson
#4. I, Finella Mayfield, promise to look for and collect God's fingerprint in a strange land chosen for me by my father.
Dorothy Adamek
#5. Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#6. I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.
Burning Spear
#7. The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.
Steven Van Zandt
#8. I think a woman smothered in cheap scent is one of the greatest abominations known to mankind - Lord Mayfield
Agatha Christie
#9. 'I Just Might Pray' by The David Mayfield Parade has an upbeat tempo without being sugary sweet. 'I Just Might Pray' is an enjoyable track and is easily listened to. As a side note, the video for 'I Just Might Pray' is absolutely adorable.
Ben Lovett
#10. You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
Carlos Santana
#11. Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.
Colin Greenwood
#12. Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey.
Mayer Hawthorne
#13. I inspect the notebook of CDs laying on the floor. There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian,
Rachel Cohn
#15. His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly.
Curtis Mayfield
#17. Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do.
Curtis Mayfield
#18. Don't worry, if there is a hell below, we're all going to go.
Curtis Mayfield
#19. My teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener.
Curtis Mayfield
#20. How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do.
Curtis Mayfield
#21. With all respect, I'm sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able to say these things and yet not make a person feel as though they're being preached at.
Curtis Mayfield
#22. Although people would like to back up their entire suburban home, that's a very difficult task. Bring them back to reality with this list of loads that can be backed up with success: refrigeration, well pumps, lighting, and computer equipment. Load
Ryan Mayfield
#23. I used to love to sit and listen to the old people talk about yesterday. There's a lot of good information there.
Curtis Mayfield
#24. Instructions do not just happen; they require explanation. In scientific study, to state that a person (or God) thought them up is not acceptable.
John E. Mayfield
#25. What is most important to understand about dysfunctional families is that in keeping the family "secrets," we are harming ourselves and diminishing our ability to be honest and open-hearted with ourselves and others we care about
Katherine Mayfield
#26. Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.
Curtis Mayfield
#27. Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.
Max Mayfield
#30. I think that video content is really important for artists these days. Not necessarily for MTV, but to really just get your name out there as a business card. Nowadays, when people want to hear a new song by an artist they immediately go to YouTube. Stream it.
Matthew Mayfield
#31. To be struck twice by two different cyclones is unusual, to say the least,
Max Mayfield
#32. Remember your dream is your only scheme, so keep on pushing.
Curtis Mayfield
#33. I needed a song and I need a place to kind of get it out. John Paul [White] was there for me as a friend, and I really appreciated that because I just needed a place to go.
Matthew Mayfield
#34. Preparation through education is less costly than learning through tragedy.
Max Mayfield
#36. Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors
Curtis Mayfield
#37. Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love ... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.
Curtis Mayfield
#38. Sometimes people who had less, who sacrificed everything to have what many of us took for granted, were the strongest among us, even though they might be in tattered clothes and smell unpleasant. I
Kate Mayfield
#39. As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.
Curtis Mayfield
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