Quotes About Bo Diddley

#1. Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

Warren Zevon

#2. The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black, soulful, authoritative, ultra-tight, ferocious, uppity, defiant music that from the Howlin' Wolf, the Muddy Waters, the Lightnin' Hopkins, the Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard.

Ted Nugent

#3. You could put Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on one side of the stage, and James Brown on the other, and you wouldn't even notice the others were there!

Bill Wyman

#4. There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records.

Syd Barrett

#5. There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.

Randy Bachman

#6. How can you rank BYU No. 1? Who'd they play - Bo Diddley Tech?

Bryant Gumbel

#7. If you think all men are created equal, you haven't seen Bo Diddley in the shower.

Ronnie Hawkins

#8. When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.

D. A. Pennebaker

#9. I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs, just bands.

Ronnie Hawkins

#10. I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated.

Eric Clapton

#11. Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.

Ian Anderson

#12. I generally prefer to come in to the studio with a fully written song and then work on the arrangement with the band. Sometimes even the arrangements are pretty much already worked out in my head, but other times we experiment.

Adam Schlesinger

#13. You look like you bin whupped with a ugly stick.

Bo Diddley

#14. She wanted to melt into the ground at that moment, just hot wax into a puddle and disappear through a sewer grate. His eyes. That look. No interest. Total humiliation

Mitch Albom

#15. Opportunity is sometimes hard to recognize if you're only looking for a lucky break.

Oliver Cromwell

#16. Scott Blais, and a dozen current caregivers.

Jodi Picoult

#17. I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.

Bo Diddley

#18. As I always used to tell Thomas Wolfe, there are three things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

Bill Bryson

#19. I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get.

Bo Diddley

#20. Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.

Bo Diddley

#21. The art schools seem to be trying to turn people out as "professional." But I don't know what the word "professional" means any longer. "Professional" would be somebody who was trying to push painting to a point that nobody else could do as well as he could. That would be my ideal professional.

Lawrence Weiner

#22. I'm an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect.

Ron Paul