Ronnie Hawkins Quotes

#1. I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.

Rick Danko

#2. Love is a flame of fire.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

Leroy Hood

#4. This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.

Pauline Hanson

#5. I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

Ronnie Hawkins

#6. 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

#7. We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically.

Ronnie Hawkins

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

Ronnie Hawkins

#9. Aye, so: there is love, and there is indulgence, and they may touch sometimes but they're not the same.

Jude Morgan

#10. A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.

Ronnie Hawkins

#11. Mac had many admirable qualities, but not tact. He was the sort of man who would have tried to cheer Napoleon up by talking about the Winter Sports at Moscow.

P.G. Wodehouse

#12. The easier your hair is to manage the happier you'll be with it and the prettier you'll feel.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#13. Miles backs up a step and turns so that he can face Dillon and Corbin at the same time. His eyes remain locked hard with Dillon's. "He's trying to fuck your sister."
Jesus Christ, Miles. Ever hear of sugarcoating?

Colleen Hoover

#14. I was a Gordon Lightfoot fan before he ever had a song out. You just knew he was pure talent and he was going to be successful. Gordon has written and recorded some of the greatest music ever.

Ronnie Hawkins

#15. If you find that you are frequently doing battle with or feeling seduced by such people, look to see what old problems you are trying to resolve by allowing yourself to engage in what are, essentially, impossible relationships.

Sandy Hotchkiss

#16. I don't know who's left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, we've got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it 'till nobody shows up to see it anymore.

Ronnie Hawkins

#17. Two infinities: the one that stretches to the beginning but never touches-when you halve and halve and halve, infinitely-and then the one that spreads out into the endless, endless future, the endless, endless, distance.The set of infinities that is itself infinite.

David Levithan

#18. My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.

NeNe Leakes

#19. There is no escape for me now, I know. Everything is over. I had my run. I was a murderer, a beautiful one, but I lived in a house of cards all my life and now it's all coming back to punish me, and there is no escape.

Katherine Ewell

#20. Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger

Robert Greene

#21. I am a cross between Carl Perkins and Led Zeppelin.

Ronnie Hawkins

#22. Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

Ronnie Hawkins

#23. 'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

Ronnie Hawkins

#24. Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

Karl Marx

#25. I don't do alcohol. Or other people's boyfriends. And don't you forget it.

Meg Cabot

#26. Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing for more than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.

Ronnie Hawkins