Boozoo Chavis famous quotes

I'm not trying to be something I ain't. That's right. I'm me.
-- Boozoo Chavis

#Trying

I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.
-- Boozoo Chavis

#Earth #Down To Earth #Creole

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.
-- Boozoo Chavis

#Tradition

Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.

Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.

If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.

Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.

I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.