Donald Dunn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me Duck.
-- Donald Dunn

#Teacher #School #Ducks
When I heard BB Kings Sweet Sixteen, I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.
-- Donald Dunn

#Sweet #Kings #Player
Im the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. Thats the way my mother raised me.
-- Donald Dunn

#Mother #Men #People
I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasnt.
-- Donald Dunn

#Looks #Made #Should
I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.
-- Donald Dunn

#Player #Would Be #World
Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.
-- Donald Dunn

#Stars #Halos
When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.
-- Donald Dunn

#Kids #Mirrors #Looks
Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.
-- Donald Dunn

#Brother #Kings #Jobs
Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.
-- Donald Dunn

#Player #Guitar #Bass

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late â€™90s!
The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
Talk. We are going to talk first. I want to see you smile and laugh. I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed again.
My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.
I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.
Thatâ€™s the tricky thing about love. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and smells like a duck. But after you sleep with it a month or so, or get dumped at the altar by it, it starts smelling more like a skunk.

Donald Dunn famous quotes

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