Dr. John famous quotes

04-25-2025

The events which transpired five thousand years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years From now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event.
-- Dr. John

#Years #Events #Determined
If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that.
-- Dr. John

#Strong #Problem #Weak
When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.
-- Dr. John

#Voice #Profound #Vision
We all, if we go with ego I go or you go ego thing, it's got to be free from all of that and just roll, because music is a spiritual thing. It's got to come through us and can't just hit us. It's got to be part of us that comes through us and goes to the people, and then they come back to us and give us more spirit.
-- Dr. John

#Spiritual #People #Giving
I'd rather have the whole world against me than my own soul.
-- Dr. John

#Soul #World
Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass on the planet Earth.
-- Dr. John

#New Orleans #Land #Cities
Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.
-- Dr. John

#Stress #Inability #Environment
I think that any of the places that's cut off from money, things come up, what the people have to rely on.
-- Dr. John

#Cutting #Thinking #People
Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm John Michael Creaux Rebennack. I'm proud of them names.
-- Dr. John

#Names #Proud #Middle
The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences public policy as well as private relationships. There is nothing more remarkable than the ingenuity that the various demarcations of the color line reflect. If only the same creative energy could be used to eradicate the color line; then its days would indeed be numbered.
-- Dr. John

#Color #Creative #Lines
The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.
-- Dr. John

#War #Humanity #Nuclear
You wanna do some livin' before you die. Do it down in New Orleans...
-- Dr. John

#New Orleans
I've been thinking a lot lately about taking chances, and how it's really just about overcoming your fears. Because the truth is, everytime you take a big risk in your life, no matter how it ends up, you're always glad you took it.
-- Dr. John

#Thinking #Risk #Matter
Powerful people never educate powerless people in what they need that they can use to take the power away from powerful people; it's too much to expect. If I was in power, I would not educate people in how to take my powers away.
-- Dr. John

#Powerful #People #Needs
In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.
-- Dr. John

#New Orleans #Guitar #Piano
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell there political and cultural time of day. It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. History tells a people where they have been and what they have been, where they are and what they are. Most important, history tells a people where they still must go, what they still must be. The relationship of history to the people is the same as the relationship of a mother to her child.
-- Dr. John

#Mother #Children #People
See, I dont know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea.
-- Dr. John

#Crazy #Ideas #Ego
In the network's mind there are no limits.
-- Dr. John

#Mind #Limits
I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all talking to me now. And they accept me as a humanoid again.
-- Dr. John

#Children #Talking #Long

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