Quotes About Doo Wop

#1. I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.

Bruno Mars

#2. You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.

Henry Rollins

#3. The doo-wop stalker love song on a Cincinnati oldies station
you broke up with me because I was an obnoxious jerk and now you're dating him, so I drive by your house and stare in your window every night, thereby proving that I'm an even bigger creep than you thought

Sarah Vowell

#4. 'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

Bruno Mars

#5. I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.

Richie Havens

#6. My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.

Bruno Mars

#7. In my vocal, I think you can hear something of my earlier times when I'd sing in subway halls for the echo and perform doo-wop on street corners. But I had a lot of influences, too - singers like Sam Cooke, Brook Benton and Roy Hamilton.

Ben E. King

#8. My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.

Bruno Mars

#9. I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.

B.o.B

#10. I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.'

Garrett Hedlund

#11. When I first got into the music scene, I was inspired by different songwriters. I like to dress from the '50s and '60s. I like to paint a picture of that era through my music and clothes. I am inspired by a whole a lot of things, from doo-wop to gospel and soul music.

Leon Bridges

#12. Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

Bruno Mars

#13. When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.

Kat Edmonson

#14. I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Nathaniel Rateliff

#15. 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

#16. I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It's a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer.

Al Jarreau

#17. Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Henry Rollins

#18. Teaching someone that doesn't know something forces you to think about almost every single aspect of it, including parts of it that you could sort of take for granted.

Joe Rogan

#19. Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#20. You are far too smart to be the only thing standing in your way.

Jennifer Freeman

#21. Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea.

Thomas Manss

#22. I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

Ron Reagan

#23. I've always wanted to play more comic parts.

Dominic West

#24. Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

Saint John Chrysostom

#25. What does this research tell us? It tells us that fiscally concerned strippers should eschew contraception and double up their shifts just before ovulation.

David Eagleman

#26. Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.

Ellen DeGeneres

#27. I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.

Melissa McCarthy

#28. That which I named 'innate' is a segment of that intelligence which fills the universe.

Daniel D. Palmer