Memphis Quotes

85 quotes by 77 authors

Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they… — Eli Broad
That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio… — Johnny Cash
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak… — Otis Blackwell
God chose Memphis as the place that I will continue my career. — Allen Iverson
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or… — Ida B. Wells
I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about… — Elvis Costello
I think it is good for people who are incarcerated or who are bound up one way or the other-people like Lily Kimball and all… — Ketch Secor
Wig Out At Jagbags is inspired by Cologne, Germany, Mark Von Schlegell, Rosemarie Trockel, Von Spar and Jan Lankisch, Can and Gas; Stephen-Malkmus-imagined Weezer/Chili Peppers,… — Stephen Malkmus
When Lonnie Mack came out with the guitar instrumental "Memphis" I thought, Oh God, finally somebody we guitar players can relate to ! — Richard Betts
... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock… — Brian Setzer
Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street. — Muddy Waters
I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces. — Pinetop Perkins
I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli. — David Johansen
She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him. — Priscilla Presley
Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants… — Larry Gates
Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love… — Jerry Lawler
ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis,… — Roy Orbison
The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day. — Justin Timberlake
Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete… — William Bell

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