Stax Quotes

#1. The only biography I read was about Al Bell, of Stax Records. I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Al Bell.

Juicy J

#2. I love Motown, but I've obviously always been more of a Memphis soul fan. If it's Stax or Motown, I go Stax.

Justin Townes Earle

#3. I'd heard a lot of Motown and Stax when I was a kid, but the more well-known end of it. On Jam tours, we had a DJ called Ady Croasdell who ran a '60s club. He turned me on to underground stuff and what people call northern soul. It just blew my mind.

Paul Weller

#4. Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.

Darius Rucker

#5. I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.

Benmont Tench

#6. Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.

Donald Dunn

#7. pair of STAX headphones slung around his

Priscilla West

#8. It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points ... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business.

William Bell

#9. My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened to must be square. So I had to find my own rock n' roll, as it were, and I found it in black soul music.

Robert Palmer

#10. For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped put rock n' roll on the map all over the world, the legendary Stax Studio also called Memphis home.

Henry Rollins

#11. Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.

Ted Lange

#12. I'm singing the way that I love to sing, which is like old soul, like old Al Green. I grew up about an hour from Memphis. So all that music that I grew up with - the Stax music and early rhythm 'n' blues - I'm doing that. I'm actually getting out from behind my guitar and I'm singing.

Sheryl Crow

#13. The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

I. F. Stone

#14. The Holy Ghost brings back memories of what God has taught us. And one of the ways God teaches us is with his blessings; and so, if we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance.

Henry B. Eyring

#15. Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call.

Saul Perlmutter

#16. The greenhouse scene! It was just so fun to have the romance and the action.

Lily Collins

#17. Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.

Brian Selznick

#18. Shawn Kemp was the player that I grew up watching, when he was with the SuperSonics.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#19. You're a Daniels and a Walker. That means you're 99% fine stubbornness, tenacity and resilience combined", Tara said.
"And the other 1%?" Mia asked as they sat at the tiny galley table.
Ford wrapped an arm around her neck and pulled her in close. "Perfection.

Jill Shalvis

#20. Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.

George C. Lorimer

#21. Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

Theodor Adorno

#22. Well, it is not a good world
nobody can say that it is, save those who wilfully blind themselves to facts. How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star? The wonder is not that it is so bad, but that there should be any good left in it.

H. Rider Haggard