Top 38 Wop May Quotes

#1. 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

Wop May Quotes #63737
#2. I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Al Jarreau

Wop May Quotes #81211
#3. But I'd take a slashed throat over a broken neck any day. At least that way I'd get to bleed all over his shoes. One final fuck-you before I died.

Rachel Vincent

Wop May Quotes #106228
#4. The best Morning Prayer for endless peace would be, "Today I will forgive everyone for their mistakes. Today I will love everyone without judging them. Today I will be kind to everyone even if they do not deserve it. Today I will be a fountain of peace to create waves of joy around me.

Debasish Mridha

Wop May Quotes #123671
#5. 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

Wop May Quotes #185822
#6. I didn't worry about the future. Because nothing could matter as much as him loving me. . .

Kiera Cass

Wop May Quotes #199781
#7. Oops," I whispered as I met Ryan's worried gaze. "Sorry about that."
"Are you kidding? That was great!"
"Great? I knocked out the electricity."
"But you didn't blow up my room.

Kelly Oram

Wop May Quotes #296567
#8. Zip zop wop boopity bop.

Bill Cosby

Wop May Quotes #303297
#9. [Chief White Halfoat:] Racial prejudice is a terrible thing, Yossarian. It really is. It's a terrible thing to treat a decent, loyal Indian like a nigger, kike, wop, or spic.

Joseph Heller

Wop May Quotes #347113
#10. A perfect day for me would just be a day that goes the way I plan.

Mikaela Shiffrin

Wop May Quotes #393262
#11. 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

Wop May Quotes #410855
#12. I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

Sinead O'Connor

Wop May Quotes #469184
#13. I know these dirty cops that'll get us in if we murder some Wop.

Big Pun

Wop May Quotes #524990
#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

Wop May Quotes #525493
#15. When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.

Kat Edmonson

Wop May Quotes #526503
#16. At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

Igor Sikorsky

Wop May Quotes #732190
#17. She had something she needed to talk about, but if she actually put it into words, the facts contained in the "something" might irretrievably become more definite *as* facts, so she wanted to postpone that moment, if only briefly.

Haruki Murakami

Wop May Quotes #782772
#18. You know what, I'm going to say this and I mean it, if all else fails and I've got to shake, rattle 'n' roll and get on the woo-wop, this is going to be my heeyah zone.

Snoop Dogg

Wop May Quotes #835978
#19. If Satan can't make you bad, he'll make you busy.

Adrian Rogers

Wop May Quotes #895493
#20. I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!'

Little Richard

Wop May Quotes #919334
#21. Well into the 1980s, New Orleans restaurants continued to list "wop salad" on their menus and a glass of Chianti could be had by calling for a "dago red.

James Gill

Wop May Quotes #950764
#22. Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

Bruno Mars

Wop May Quotes #995970
#23. 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

Wop May Quotes #1081456
#24. 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

Wop May Quotes #1165705
#25. 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

Wop May Quotes #1230047
#26. 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

Wop May Quotes #1244708
#27. The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

Rudyard Kipling

Wop May Quotes #1338999
#28. Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

John Pomfret

Wop May Quotes #1436965
#29. Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one.

Sting

Wop May Quotes #1443926
#30. He studied with the guru of rock n' roll, Baba Oom Mow Mow, who taught his own version of the Golden Rule: Do wop unto others as you would have them do wop unto you.

Swami Beyondananda

Wop May Quotes #1471750
#31. 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

Wop May Quotes #1481507
#32. 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

Wop May Quotes #1494293
#33. 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

Wop May Quotes #1511092
#34. 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

Wop May Quotes #1595533
#35. And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he hadn't wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it.

Paulo Coelho

Wop May Quotes #1638625
#36. '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

Wop May Quotes #1735649
#37. 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

Wop May Quotes #1803325
#38. 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

Wop May Quotes #1858759

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