Eddie Floyd famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.
-- Eddie Floyd

#Teenager #Inspiration #Way
I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
-- Eddie Floyd

#Detroit #Week #Moved
I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
-- Eddie Floyd

#Chance #Wilson
People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits.
-- Eddie Floyd

#Song #People #Tempo

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.
I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show.
although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil's workshop.
I know what it's like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again. I know what it's like to pull all the groceries in, and see the teenagers run through, and all of a sudden, all of the groceries you just bought a few hours ago are gone.
There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.
Things worth having don't come easy," Woods said. "You have to fight for it until you're tired of fighting, and then you take a breather and fight some more." He squeezed my shoulder. "Don't give up. You'll regret it.
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.

Eddie Floyd famous quotes

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