Quotes About Bessie Smith

#1. Back Water Blues" by Bessie Smith. This is the one most closely associated with the 1927 flood,

Tom Franklin

#2. Down Hearted Blues, by Bessie Smith. This is the song Ingersoll is singing to the baby

Tom Franklin

#3. It would be great to have Bach in one corner, Bessie Smith in another, John Lennon in another. That's what I'd ideally like. A studio of the dead.

Jools Holland

#4. I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.

Madeleine Peyroux

#5. The first big stars, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, you know, these were gigantic stars. I even wonder sometimes whether all music actually comes from women, whether the first glimmering of music is a mother soothing a baby.

Hugh Laurie

#6. [Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'.

Ma Rainey

#7. I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.

Bessie Smith

#8. There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

Bessie Smith

#9. It's a long road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.

Bessie Smith

#10. I need a little sugar in my bowl and a little hot dog in my roll.

Bessie Smith

#11. They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.

John Mica

#12. The sight of so many agitated and serious people made Margaret smile, but she reflected that they were paid to be serious, and enjoyed being agitated.

E. M. Forster

#13. But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

Charles Darwin

#14. He'll go down as one of the guys who changed our sport in a lot of ways, not only the way he played the game, but also the way that he conducted himself on and off the court.

Lleyton Hewitt

#15. The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

Bessie Smith

#16. The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.

Saint Francis De Sales

#17. Two babbies shagging each other like they were the first two on earth to discover how 'twas done.

Stephen King

#18. In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.

Ahmed Zewail

#19. Listen to my story and everything will come out true

Bessie Smith

#20. I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

Bessie Smith

#21. The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

Edward Kennedy

#22. You're not gonna name it Dog, are you?

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#23. Android was intended to be very customizable. And we welcome innovations.

Sundar Pichai

#24. When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.

Helen Hunt Jackson

#25. Becoming more deeply connected with those you admire and love bolsters, in you, the traits you most admire in them. Recognize behaviors that most upset you so, like defensive driving, you see potential "crashes" sooner and avoid them.

Kare Anderson

#26. It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.

Bessie Smith

#27. When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.

Bessie Smith

#28. She alone filled the whole room

Veronica Roth

#29. When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.

Cary Grant

#30. I am fat and flabby and that Dr. J. I. Packer is right when he says, "Here then is the root cause of our moral flabbiness; we have neglected God's Law."3

Alistair Begg

#31. No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

Bessie Smith