Tony Joe White famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When you write songs, you gotta be like a receiving station: you gotta be aware of what's going on around you. I never know what a song is going to be about before I write it.
-- Tony Joe White

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Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame.
-- Tony Joe White

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I've been very lucky, man. Like you say, though, the writing is what kicked all that in and made it possible. It's something that I have always been very thankful of, that that kicked in, and that I could be free with the music.
-- Tony Joe White

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That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
Iâ€™m not a fan of â€˜write what you know.â€™ If you donâ€™t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing â€˜The Year of Living Biblically.â€™ That was kind of the point â€“ to learn.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
There is only one safeguard against error, and that is to be established in the faith; and for that, there has to be prayerful and diligent study, and a receiving with meekness the engrafted Word of God. Only then are we fortified against the attacks of those who assail us.
There is a 114% increase in happiness when receiving rewards via mobile marketing.
My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on "The Guiding Light".
I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

Tony Joe White famous quotes

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