Ronnie Hawkins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you think all men are created equal, you haven't seen Bo Diddley in the shower.
-- Ronnie Hawkins

#Men #Thinking #Showers
The bigtime for you is just around the corner. They told me that first in 1952 - boy, its been a long corner. If I dont hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, Im gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.
-- Ronnie Hawkins

#Boys #Years #Long
Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.
-- Ronnie Hawkins

#War #Rocks #Two
I dont know whos left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, weve got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it till nobody shows up to see it anymore.
-- Ronnie Hawkins

#Real #Rocks #People
I was a Gordon Lightfoot fan before he ever had a song out. You just knew he was pure talent and he was going to be successful. Gordon has written and recorded some of the greatest music ever.
-- Ronnie Hawkins

#Song #Successful #Fans
A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.
-- Ronnie Hawkins

#Jobs #Team #People
I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs, just bands.
-- Ronnie Hawkins

#Change #Song #Play
Wherever there are rock n rollers, well play. Thats what weve been doing for more than 30 years - rock n roll. Its made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.
-- Ronnie Hawkins

#Rocks #Motorcycle Gangs #Years
I am a cross between Carl Perkins and Led Zeppelin.
-- Ronnie Hawkins

#Zeppelins #Crosses

This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
No one man is superior to the game.
A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
Some people get up in the morning, don't go to the gym, they go take a shower. Well, I go to the gym, and I get a shower too.
If you do good in secret, Allah will shower His good on you in public.

Ronnie Hawkins famous quotes

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