Ernie Isley famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Don't believe everything you hear on the street.
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I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.
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The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.
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There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.
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It's no surprise to me or the other Isley brothers that I can sing, because I used to sing all the time in practice. The surprise is that somebody else likes it.
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My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums for Martha and the Vandellas. Ah, the fond memories of being 14.
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You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.
-- Ernie Isley
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I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
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I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.
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I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.
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I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.
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I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
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I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.
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The presidency is more than a popularity contest.
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It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.
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