T-Bone Walker quotes

T-Bone Walker quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz.”
-- T-Bone Walker

#Thinking Quotes #Jazz Quotes
“I just naturally started to play music. My whole family played-my daddy played, my mother played. My daddy played bass, my cousin played banjo, guitar and mandolin. We played at root beer stands, like the .Drive-ins they have now, making $2.50 a night, and we had a cigar box for the kitty that we passed around, sometimes making fifty or sixty dollars a night. Of course we didn't get none of it, we kids.”
-- T-Bone Walker

#Mother Quotes #Cousin Quotes #Kids Quotes
“I was called "T-Bow" but the people got it mixed up with "T-Bone." My name is Aaron Walker but "T-Bone" is catchy, people remember it. My auntie gave it to me when I was a kid. Mother's mother was a Cherokee Indian full blooded. There were sixteen girls and two boys in my mother's family, all dead but two.”
-- T-Bone Walker

#Girl Quotes #Mother Quotes #Kids Quotes

“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.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
“Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.”
“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
“Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.”
“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”
“I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.”
“Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.”
“I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.”

Source : "Cuba, Cognac, and Cachao with Andy Garcia". Interview with Allyson Shiffman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2013.
“Player for player, thereâ€™s â€¨no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.”
“Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?”

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