1980s Quote by Rory Gallagher Download Open image “I kept playing blues-based music all during the 1980s, and it was tough.” — Rory Gallagher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1980s Kept Music Playing Tough
I was living and working with adult men who were playing a real art form. And I had been playing blues all my life.… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going. — B. B. King Copy Share Image
One thing I really hate about people who play both acoustic and electric is if they try to play electric style on an acoustic… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
There was nobody in the city I came from - Cork, Ireland - that I could link up with to teach me the guitar. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
Basically, I like anything with guts - Lead Belly, Bill Big Broonzy, Johnny Winter, the Stones. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
It's dangerous not to tour, because people assume you've faded away, or have no interest. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
I started on acoustic guitar after I heard Leadbelly and Big Bill Broonzy. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
I could bear being in the charts and being on everyone's car radio 10 times a day. I'm just terrified of... a lot of… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
I'm a great listener - I play records all the time at home. And I play guitar as a hobby. So inspiration has never… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
I think that I set such high standards for myself that sometimes I expect other people to live up to these standards, and it's… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
Playing live is my natural element. It's too hard to relax in the studio because there are too many options. It's just not as… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
Obviously, I would like to play to bigger audiences and have a bit more success, but not if I have to commercialize. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I… — Ruadhán J. McElroy Copy Share Image
“Dilettantes,’ Art3mis said. ‘It’s their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart.” — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The 1980s were all about synths for me, and it never went away after that. — John Grant Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s, state-of-the-nation fictions were all set in Manhattan. Now, they're all in Trump country. Early in 'S-Town,' we're introduced to an… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
“Reading about Bordertown was the first time I saw people like me in speculative fiction. Messed-up kids, making messsed-up choices. I couldn't be a… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I remain extraordinarily proud of the Vaughan Williams symphonies I recorded with the LSO, and in the 1980s and '90s, I made an almost… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the mid 1980s, video games as an industry had lost its way a bit. Atari had collapsed. There was this widespread collective belief… — Bobby Kotick Copy Share Image
The movie 'Prema Geethangal' brought out the campus life in the 1980s whereas 'Ennalum Sharat' speaks from the 2017 perspective. — Balachandra Menon Copy Share Image
