Broonzy Blues Quotes & Sayings

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all. — Amelia Barr

Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things. — Big Bill Broonzy

I'd rather love you at the bottom than despise you at the top. — Colleen Hoover

A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good. — John Of Kronstadt

You're unbelievable."
"Thank you."
"That wasn't a compliment!"
"I know you didn't mean it as one, Juliet, but when you think about it, what could be more glorious than to be too much, too out of the ordinary, to be believed? — Louisa Edwards

Fashion never stops. There is always the new project, the new opportunity. — Carolina Herrera

The Giver's Fact: No matter what it appears to be, feedback information is almost totally about the giver, not the receiver. — Anonymous

My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery. — Alvin Lee

My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old. — Alvin Lee