Quotes About A Barbershop

#1. If people are sitting in the barbershop talking about my butt, it's conversational. That's what people are gonna do.

Nicki Minaj

#2. I think of fans like a barbershop. I want that debate.

Pitbull

#3. My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

Clare Bowen

#4. Bernie Sanders has done a great job of, social media black kids know about him. Young black people progressives know about him. Through barbershops and barbershop tour that we have been on, we hit three barbershops a day. People know about him.

Killer Mike

#5. To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.

Christian Louboutin

#6. My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical.

Skylar Grey

#7. Love corrupts and absolute love corrupts absolutely. The unreasonable systems of men, that is.

Silvia Hartmann

#8. I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.

George Clinton

#9. Life is too short to argue about time.

Jackie Kay

#10. There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.

Tina Weymouth

#11. No matter what barbershop you go to, there's always that guy who's just hanging around and doesn't do much, but knows everything that's going on in the community.

Deon Cole

#12. No one honest has an easy life, and its aching for one that causes the most pain.

James Kidd

#13. One wonders how much real conversation there is when one party does not, in many districts, have to contend for the votes of minorities, and the other can only elevate minorities into positions of power when the political wind is blowing in its direction.

Garrance Franke-Ruta

#14. I'm not saying you have to learn Barbershop to be a great a cappella singer... but I am promising you if you do sing Barbershop, you'll be better than if you don't.

Deke Sharon

#15. A little warning would've been nice. You couldn't have said, 'Hey, as part of your training today, I'm going to beat you senseless'?

Julie Kagawa

#16. My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters.

Kevin Richardson

#17. Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.

Rowan Atkinson

#18. I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.

Ned Beatty

#19. A Spaniard and a Pole worked in the barbershop where we got our hair cut. An Italian shined our shoes. A Croat washed our car. This was America.

Ilya Ilf

#20. In the barbershop, there's democracy. You're a professor; you're an engineer; you're a garbage man, have at it. You got something to say, get down with it.

Michael Eric Dyson

#21. I'd discovered that when the most precious thing in your life could slip through
your fingers, investments, money, those
things suddenly meant absolutely jack.
Spencer Blackwell

Fisher Amelie

#22. Before, my anxiety was singing solo. Now all this weird anticipation and jumbled excitement has added some strange harmonies into the mix. I'm a barbershop quartet basket case.

Jenn Bennett

#23. I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself.

Carrie Brownstein

#24. I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson.

George Clinton

#25. The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.

Harryette Mullen

#26. When I want to work on my material, I go to Benihana or the barbershop.

Tracy Morgan

#27. There's things people say in the barbershop they won't even say in their own living room, because it's just one of those zones where nobody's going to judge you too much about your dumb opinion.

Ice Cube

#28. I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

Charlotte Bronte

#29. He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he'd walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.

Hunter S. Thompson

#30. The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.

Alain De Botton

#31. Black movies don't have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That's not a name, that's just a location.

Chris Rock

#32. Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican.

Jeff Sharlet

#33. I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls.

J.K. Rowling

#34. There is no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

Aldous Huxley

#35. Gary snorted. When he did, little pink and purple sparkles shot out his nose. Being a unicorn is awesome like that.

T.J. Klune

#36. We employed a stocky Yorkshire woman to walk me home from school past the barbershop with the unhappy mynah bird. "Kill me!" it suggested as we passed by.

Elizabeth Mckenzie

#37. When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous.

R.L. Stine

#38. Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

Karl Kraus

#39. Dresden was destroyed on the night of February 13, 1945," Billy Pilgrim began. "We came out of our shelter the next day." He told Montana about the four guards who, in their astonishment and grief, resembled a barbershop quartet. He told her about the stockyards with all the fenceposts gone,

Kurt Vonnegut