A Quote by John Waite

Marty Robbins was one of the first singers that really hit me hard. — © John Waite
Marty Robbins was one of the first singers that really hit me hard.
I'm a big Marty Robbins fan. I love Marty Robbins. Of course, everybody does. That's not such a big shock.
My mother named me for Marty Robbins.
Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life
Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.
My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.
I grew up listening to my mother's collection of Hank Williams, George Jones and Marty Robbins records.
Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences.
I love Marty Robbins, I love Glen Campbell, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline.
As a dancer I had worked with really hard choreographers, Jerome Robbins being the toughest. And you learned what it is to hit against a brick wall. And you learned pretty quickly to go around the wall or say, "I can't take this job."
Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat.
Most people that do play nowadays hit really hard. It was good to get someone that hit really hard early on.
Balanchine is the number one influence for me. His work was really musically driven. He and Jerome Robbins were the ones who really showed me that dance could be about the inner relation between movement and music. When I was a student first seeing their work, I was like, 'Oh, this is a thing?'
I don't see this as Marty [St. Louis] replacing me. I see this as Marty getting the opportunity he deserves.
I hate categories. Hank Williams is a great artist, period. Bob Dylan is a great artist, so is Marty Robbins. They just classify these people and put them in categories so they can sell the thing easier.
I think we did our first session in 1958. There were no black background singers - there were only white singers. They weren't even called background singers; they were just called singers. I don't know who gave us the name 'background singers,' but I think that came about when The Blossoms started doing background.
Our professor was Marty Scorsese. Marty was a graduate student, or Mr. Scorsese, which is what I had to call him, and still do when I see him 'cause he gave me a C.
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