Quotes About The Apollo Theater

#1. 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

#2. If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent, they would let you know about it
and not kindly. There'd be things like "Get off the stage!" and certain expletives we won't say here. It was a rough audience.

Don Alias

#3. When the music is birthed
from a place of worship it carries a spirit of worship.

Temi Peters

#4. If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

Billy Wilder

#5. Be thankful for the efforts of people who worked hard to get you where you are; you should not take it for granted and treat them with indifference.

Roy T. Bennett

#6. I suppose love falls where it falls.'
'Generally, one can see it toppling from afar, and make an effort to get out of the way.

Joe Abercrombie

#7. In both places [Paraguay and Newfoundland] people rise despite everything - both are pretty tough environments.

John Gimlette

#8. There ought to be more than just that metallic end, and then silence, then the worms, and sometimes he believed, but just this moment he did not believe at all ... there was nothing beyond the sound of the guns ... not even silence, just an end.

Michael Shaara

#9. Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. What is the pope doing inserting himself - he's the Vicar of Christ. He is the worldwide leader of the Catholic faith. What is he doing inserting himself into the American political system this way? That to me is the larger question.

Rush Limbaugh

#11. If you stop evolving as a person, you're done." Sylvia Hasenkopf-

Linda Maran

#12. When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new industries and that becomes part of your culture, your jobs can't go overseas because no one else has figured out how to do it yet.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson