- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and I couldn't understand what I was hearing. All afternoon, I just sat against the amp and let it reverberate through me. Something must have stuck.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing all the way through the show to me is boring. I don't care how great the artist is. I find that if my audience is very young, and they want to hear very young songs, my show will be dominated by that. But there'll be some ballads here and there and some swing tunes.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life isn't all me. I have a family to support. I can't rob them of a good life simply because I want to play something.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would have done OK. I'm not sure I would have done great. I'm a lover of jazz music, so I would have been happy, don't get me wrong. I go to jazz concerts like the biggest jazz fan in world. The drag is that I don't play jazz for a living.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 15 years old, my cousin and I formed a singing group called The Altaires. And, because we became the most popular singing group in the Tri-State area, the rest of the group convinced me I should play the guitar - even though I didn't own one! So what happened was, my stepfather actually made my first electric guitar for me for $23!
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I sure love that song. I did like the classic version, a rock-oriented song, then someone heard me do it with the Grant Green approach - Grant Green and Larry Young did it, with a bossa nova beat on the funky side.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I've been playing guitar since I was 9.
- Devote
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn't very entertaining for me.
- Impressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Beckham has never impressed me.
- Bad Press
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lucky that, despite all the bad press I've had over the years, the public still seems to like me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it's the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody knows me.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020