Clyde Mcphatter Quotes & Sayings

Most libraries were small hotbeds of gossip and personal intrigue. — Elizabeth Hunter

Music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence. — A.P.

Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin. — Jon Landau

Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been. — Jim Butcher

Don't you see, angel?"
His arms tightened around me. "You're still on your feet.
You may hate yourself for every little mistake you make, but
the fact that you've survived means you've come out on top. It
might not be a perfect victory, but those are really, really rare.
Every day you stand up and face life again is a win. — Amelia C. Gormley

Long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one. To be all one meant to be wholly one, to be in oneness, either essentially or temporarily. That is precisely the goal of solitude, to be all one. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

You must not fall. / When you lose your balance, resist for a long time before turning yourself toward the earth. Then jump. / You must not force yourself to stay steady. You must move forward. — Philippe Petit

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down." — Diogenes

In all those types of films I wore a tan suit, a grey suit, a beige suit and then a negligee for the seventh reel near the end when I would admit to my best friend on the telephone that what I really wanted was to become a little housewife. — Rosalind Russell

O happy, golden age!
Not for that rivers ran
With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees — Torquato Tasso

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair — Ahmet Ertegun

People care much more for how things look than how things are. — Donna Lynn Hope

People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues. — Ahmet Ertegun

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. — William E. Gladstone

That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on. — Leila Sales