Chris Blackwell quotes

“Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.”
-- Chris Blackwell

#Coffee Quotes #Jamaica Quotes #World Quotes

“I want people to enjoy the simplicity in the natural.”
-- Chris Blackwell

#People Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Want Quotes

“Running a farm is about solving a problem, and that's always interesting to me. But it's a constant process.”
-- Chris Blackwell

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“Nobody was interested in playing Bob Marley on the radio. We had to tour him - that was the only way it could work.”
-- Chris Blackwell

Source : Interview With Hooman Majd, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 17, 2009.

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“I never liked the whole thing about pictures with the artists. You look back at an Elvis Presley record, and you don't see any producer credits, because the audience is not supposed to know about the producer credit.”
-- Chris Blackwell

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

#Artist Quotes #Looks Quotes #Credit Quotes

“I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.”
-- Chris Blackwell

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

#Touring Quotes #Feels Quotes #Audience Quotes

“I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.”

Source : Abigail Reynolds (2010). “Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice: A modern love story with a Jane Austen twist”, p.27, Sourcebooks, Inc.

“I don't like soccer. I think it makes you soft. And by the way, you telling me it's the biggest whatever in the World, look, they drink tea everywhere too; they're pussies, you understand? I want some coffee.”

“You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.”

“Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.”

“Without coffee something’s missing”

“Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.”

“I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!”

“Come back, come back, back to Jamaica Don't you know we made a big mistaika We would be so sad if you told us goodbye And we promise not to shoot you out of the sky!”

“God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.”

“Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.”

Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press