Derringer Quotes & Sayings

My name is Kaida, and I am Nyiathan. — Laura E. Taylor

Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole! And that, too, when all things are so distinguished and yet intermingled and sympathetic. — Marcus Aurelius

I'm just waiting for the one that makes me feel like forever wouldn't be long enough. — Carian Cole

Almighty Lord deliver us from every hidden trap. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work. — Rick Derringer

There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer. — Rick Derringer

Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted. — Rick Derringer

In Texas, rocks are considered an adequate weaponry during schoolyard scuffles. Dallas children carry a brace of loaded pistols, a concealed Derringer, and a 6 inch Toadsticker in one boot. That's the girls of course. Boys bring howitzers to class. — Mary Doria Russell

I had the shotgun. I was also carrying my two pistols, two knives, and a derringer stuffed in the pocket of my jacket. It was a present from Edward. He had handed it to me with this advice: "It kicks like a sonofabitch, but press it under someone's chin, and it will blow their fucking head off." Nice to know. It — Laurell K. Hamilton

Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place — Joanne Harris

All my life I've been fascinated by the precipice in all of us. When you come to it, you either choose to fall or you don't
Alvin Ailey — Kathy Petrakis

And what makes me happy now has changed as well ... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy. — Rick Derringer

Rock and roll hoochie koo, lawdy mama, light my fuse. — Rick Derringer

For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices. — Rick Derringer

This Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour / Hippiefest roster promises a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the best, legendary artists of our lifetime. I can't wait to be a part of it. — Rick Derringer

We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the studio, it was totally easy, as we knew exactly what we wanted to do. — Rick Derringer

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player. — Rick Derringer

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults. — Rick Derringer

Brenda did some little vocal arrangements for us and she got to sing as well. So, we're happy to be able to work together and that's another reason why we look forward to doing more of these. — Rick Derringer

Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness. — E.B. White

I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or whatever you want to call it, can be channeled into a positive direction that actually helps people. — Rick Derringer

Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny's house, so we could rehearse every day. — Rick Derringer

If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same. — Rick Derringer

It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate. — Rick Derringer

If everything else were still the same, he'd have felt Zee's absence like a gaping hole. But if he could continue to reconfigure his entire life, there would be no missing place where Zee had been. — Rebecca Makkai

My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. — Rick Derringer

The first time I heard Johnny play at the Fillmore East, I wasn't really impressed. He had come on the scene with everybody telling me how great he was, and I didn't hear it. — Rick Derringer

Love is a circle that doth restless move
In the same sweet eternity of love. — Robert Herrick

In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again. — Rick Derringer

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz. — Rick Derringer

I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business. — Rick Derringer

When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down, Creep home and take your place there, The spent and maimed among: God grant you find one face there You loved when all was young. — Susanna Kearsley

Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long. — Michael Gungor

So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great. — Rick Derringer

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock. — Rick Derringer