Top 1200 Hill Street Blues Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

So, I'm on Sesame Street, walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. Sesame Street is just a crazy great place to be.

I believe I'll take off my colors for awhile / And just kick back and sing some blues.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is a frequent experience in a younger writer.

He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.

If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.

Humor is most powerful thing that uses laughter as it base to chase your blues away.

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.

Men who are offenders of street harassment and women who experience street harassment can walk by and feel something about it, because it's out there in the environment where the harassment actually happens. So it's a lot more powerful than an oil painting that's stuck in a gallery or under my bed or in my studio where only a couple of eyes are going to see it, as opposed to it being in an environment where it could possibly effect a change.

We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.

A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's shoulder.

I love jazz and blues, where there's a structure, but a lot of the cool stuff is veering off the page and playing.

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

Steven Segal's a cool dude. He's basically a blues man. He loves playing his guitar.

He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

I remember trying to stay up late and catch as much 'Beavis and Butt-Head' as I could, and then 'King of the Hill.'

When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.

I was a big Pretty Purdie fan. I have heavy rhythm and blues influences, and that is what I bring to the table with Aerosmith.

I listen to everything - from Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette all the way down to rap like Scarface, UGK and Lauryn Hill.

I think a lot of hedge funds get their trades from Wall Street and get their ideas from Wall Street. And I just like to find my own ideas. I'm reading a lot; I read a lot of news. I'm addicted to it. I basically - I follow my nose on news stories.

I'm a huge Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu fan, so working with those two in any capacity would be a dream.

There are people who I still knock around with from the Primrose Hill set, but they have found sobriety, too, and are doing their own things.

The hill pines were sighing, O'ercast and chill was the day; A mist in the valley lying Blotted the pleasant May.

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

I was doing something of my own after I left The Moody Blues, I went away, lived in Spain for a while.

In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues.

Why complain to the NBA and to the officials all the time, just like Tyrone Hill, always complaining about me on the court?

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record

Actually, I didn't listen to country music very much in Oklahoma. I listened to blues and rock n' roll.

As much as I liked the build-up to Christmas, the week after always socked me with the blues.

I want to pursue farming, and what better place to do it than at a hill station, which has a cool climate almost through the year.

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.

"Sesame Street" was really the first kid's show that my dad did. He did a couple of TV specials that were targeted for kids before "Sesame Street," but really, it was, it's kind of going back to our roots, when we start to get adult. This show gets very adult sometimes, and that's because of the audience.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

My dream collaboration is with Lauryn Hill. Is that ever gonna' happen? Who knows! But there's still a lot I feel like musically I could do.

One Tree Hill was a great learning opportunity for me, and Im excited to go and apply that elsewhere and see where I end up.

I never knew listening to a song could give you goose bumps and make you cry until I listened to Lauryn Hill.

There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all.

They were worried we wouldn't get any radio play at all[ for "A Deal with God" ]. That's why it was changed [to "Running Up That Hill"].

I'm known on the Hill for having respect, I think, on all sides of the House of Commons because I don't buy into treating people poorly.

The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it.

Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.

Every successful high street needs a catalyst that starts making people want to come there, and independent shops can be that catalyst. If you want a new idea on the high street, you'll probably find it in an independent. I know I shouldn't say this, but new ideas rarely happen in chains. What we do is adopt it once we spot it in an independent.

When Clemson players rub that rock and run down the hill, it's the most exciting 25 seconds in college football.

On Wall Street, there is no "Wall Street"; there are individuals.

Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.

You ask any Olympian what the year after the Olympics is like - you always get the Olympic blues.

We must infuse our lives with art. Our national leaders must be informed that we want them to use our taxes to support street theatre in order to oppose street gangs. We should have a well-supported regional theatre in order to oppose regionalism and.