"I mean, look how many musicians have come……" — Luther Allison
"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."
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30 Quotes by Luther Allison
Luther Allison has 30 quotes on this site.
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I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.
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The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock…
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Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.
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I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.
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But my big thing was always the blues.
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Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would…
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I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.
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I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks…
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I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.
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In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.
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In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.
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Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of…
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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while…
— Honore de Balzac
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Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
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But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.
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Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that…
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I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
— Michael Caine
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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk…
— Albert Camus
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the…
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