Gatemouth Brown Quotes & Sayings

There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea. — Otto E. Neugebauer

Ever since I was in Amherst College I have remembered how Garman told his class in philosophy that if they would go along with events and have the courage and industry to hold to the main stream, without being washed ashore by the immaterial cross currents, they would someday be men of power. He meant that we should try to guide ourselves by general principles and not get lost in particulars. That may sound like mysticism, but it is only the mysticism that envelopes every great truth. One of the greatest mysteries in the world is the success that lies in conscientious work. — Calvin Coolidge

Get your ass back on the tree, Jayne, I just lost the mojo. — Elle Casey

It is easier to motivate people to do something difficult than something easy. — Sheri L. Dew

Ali, Son of the Father of the Seeker
Ali said: 'None may arrive at the Truth until he is able to think that the Path itself may be wrong. This is because those who can only believe that it must be right are not believers, but people who are incapable of thinking otherwise than they already think. Such people are not men at all. Like animals they must follow certain beliefs, and during this time they cannot learn. Because they cannot be called "humanity", they cannot arrive at the Truth. — Idries Shah

I play American and World music, Texas style. — Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mean with that?

(I think that... once upon a time.... .you had something in your head more than a candy!) — Deyth Banger

Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes are mostly the price we pay so that politicians can play Santa Claus and get reelected. — Thomas Sowell

Congress, the legislative stone in America's urethra. — Jon Stewart

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06. — Judy Woodruff

Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness. — Victor Nell

I play blues, sure, but don't call me a bluesman — Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

A better politics is one where we appeal to each other's basic decency instead of our basest fears. — Barack Obama