Big Bill Broonzy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.
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Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me!
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I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.
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When you got your hand in the lion's mouth, don't do nothin' til you get it out.
-- Big Bill Broonzy
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Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.
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I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.
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One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.
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I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.
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