Tommy James famous quotes

Songs Like Mony Mony aren't really written, they're sort of hanging in space - waiting to be found - I'm just thankful we found this one.
-- Tommy James

#Song #Space #Waiting

Sweet cherry wine, so very fine, take it on down, pass it all around.
-- Tommy James

#Sweet #Wine #Alcohol

Here she comes now, say, Mony, Mony. Shoot 'em down, turn around, come on, Mony.
-- Tommy James

#Ems #Turns

My baby does the hanky panky.
-- Tommy James

#Baby #Sex #Doe

Maybe tomorrow when He looks down Every green field and every town All of his children every nation There'll be peace and good, brotherhood... Crystal blue persuasion.
-- Tommy James

#Peace #Children #Blue

I'm not quite sure. Probably because "Hanky Panky" and "I Think We're Alone Now" had more to do with it than anything else. For some reason, staccato eighth notes on a bass sounded like bubblegum. Basically, groups like the 1910 Fruitgum Co. took my early format and kind of perverted it, and made these mindless pre-fab hits over and over. In the 60s, anybody who was making commercial music, that is music that didn't have a political slant to it, or wasn't taking drugs, was bubblegum. And that term kind of hung on a lot of people back then, and it's unfortunate.
-- Tommy James

#Thinking #Commercial Music #People

I think everybody did their share of experimenting in the 1960s with drugs. My story is real simple. I was taking amphetamines in the late 60s and I was addicted to them. I don't necessarily know the why. I'm sure at the time I could've told you six different reasons why I was doing it. But, in the end, all of that stuff, all chemicals will hurt you.
-- Tommy James

#Hurt #Real #Simple

If I don't get at least 1 email in any given hour, I begin to think my friends are conspiring against me.
-- Tommy James

#Funny #Thinking #Email

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.

I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.

Tomer: “What's this?” Cabinet: “Wt's ths?” Wedge: “Cabinet.” Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.” Cabinet: “...ts tlkng” Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.” Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.” Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.

One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.

In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.