Booker T. Jones famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Once you strike a note on the organ, it's going to stay with you until you either make it louder or softer or let it go. So it's a little bit like the human voice, so you can put a human characteristic in it.
-- Booker T. Jones

#Voice #Let It Go #Littles
I was extremely fortunate to live around the corner from a recording studio and to be chosen to have a paper route to make enough money to pay for the music lessons. I was one of the chosen few to have a job and to walk through the curtain at Stax Records was just an amazing thing for me to do at age 14.
-- Booker T. Jones

#Jobs #Age #Records
The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones' arrangement of "One Mint Julep." I heard that sound, and it just struck me. I thought that's what I want to do with my life. That's the sound I want to try to make.
-- Booker T. Jones

#Player #Trying #Rays

How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?
I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.
When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
I have little shame, no dignity â€“ all in the name of a better cause.
I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

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