"I was in Hollis' band for eight years, playing drums. At one time we had Barry Beckett, Jimmy Johnson, David Hood - everybody but Roger Hawkins. We had a hell of a band."

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Source : "The Soulful DNA of Country Songwriter Donnie Fritts". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. October 8, 2015.

Donnie Fritts

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“Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.”
“She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2013). “A Spear of Summer Grass”, p.48, MIRA
“The gym is always open, except when it's closed.”
“As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.”
“Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.”
“It's not normal for me to feel jealous. I'm competitive with myself more than anything. And anyway, all of my friends in the business are bigger than me! Most of them are musicians, and I think music takes them to a whole new level. For me, I'm going to try out music, but it will be more fun than anything else. I'm really trying my hardest to become a well-respected actress. All I really want to do is movie after movie after movie. I love acting, and I want to create that so I can be around for a long time.”
“Maybe we didn't even have a chance. The message of American Pop Art was so powerful and so optimistic. But it was also very limited, and that led us to believe that we could somehow distance ourselves from it and communicate a different intention.”
“I want to keep working really hard at getting better at stand-up and touring, and I can't imagine a time when I won't want to do that. But, who knows?”

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