Haywood Quotes & Sayings

Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others ... — Eliza Haywood

Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are? — Bill Walton

The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them! — Bill Haywood

The mine owners do not find the gold ... — Bill Haywood

My family was my guide to my reality. — Haywood Nelson

The very first day that Hillary came over, we were working on a song called 'All We'd Ever Need.' But we never even thought about it until we had written 5, 6, 7 songs. Then we played our first show, and we all enjoyed it so much. We felt like it was something a special and different. So from there we decided to do Lady Antebellum. — Dave Haywood

If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get. — Bill Haywood

What is God trying to tell me? ... I'm just so tired. Why are people sabotaging me? Why, when I try to do something right, do people get angry? — Spencer Haywood

A favorite song or tune may stay on your mind for hours. A good book will stay on your mind until you find another. — F. Haywood Glenn

In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so. — Eliza Haywood

That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible. — Dave Haywood

Rita Haywood gave good face. — Madonna Ciccone

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us. — Dave Haywood

I love people who are fearless, and I'm a spiritual guy, so I connect with people spiritually. — Haywood Nelson

more precious than ever. And Mama and Claude acted like randy — Haywood Smith

Most People are wretched more by the Fears of what may come, than what they endure at present ... a manifest Contradiction to good Sense; for who, with the right use of that, wou'd lose the Enjoyment of a present Comfort, to lament a Misfortune only in Supposition; which ten to one never comes to pass ... — Eliza Haywood

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music. — Dave Haywood

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire ... — Eliza Haywood

You must never lose that touch of childishness. You need it if you wish to write for children, if you wish to understand the heart of a child. Children are good, you see. And they expect good. — Carolyn Haywood

Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has always had a lot of Southern rock in there as well. — Dave Haywood

I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will kill me for saying this, but my first beer, I was 15 and I didn't know what to do with it. I thought you were supposed to chug it. So I just downed the whole thing in one gulp. All my friends were like, 'Duuuuuuude!' — Dave Haywood

My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off. — David Bowie

The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain. — Eliza Haywood

We were taking some photos one day in front of one of these old antebellum homes, and one of us said the word. And we all kind of stopped and said, 'That could be a name!' ... It just feels kind of country and nostalgic. — Dave Haywood

You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end. — Dave Haywood

You are the beginning of Eternity now, she said silently to Master Haywood. You have arrived at the end of Fear. And I will love you always, for as long as the world endures. — Sherry Thomas

We have our roots in country, and that's our foundation, but we pull from a lot. — Dave Haywood

Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life. — Eliza Haywood

When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of think, 'Man, maybe that could be our band name.' — Dave Haywood

To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible. — Bill Haywood

Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love ... — Eliza Haywood

I've always been drawn to city skylines. — Dave Haywood

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ... — Eliza Haywood

If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped. — Bill Haywood

There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature. — Eliza Haywood

However, our kind Nigerian friend failed to mention that not only is stripping in Japan a full-contact sport above the waist, but also apparently having shots poured over your breasts and sucked off your nipples by strange Japanese men is as commonplace as the gyrations to be overheard in the dark quarters where much more than private dances went on. — Chelsea Haywood

I hope that when people see my body of work, they will say, 'That brother dropped it for real on us, even at the expense of his own image.' — Haywood Nelson

I wish to be forgotten in silence and solitude. — Jon Carroll Haywood

Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with heavy beats, so to have that Mumford record and hear banjos being used is so cool. — Dave Haywood

Ten thousand people wrote letters to the governor of Utah, protesting the verdict, but Joe Hill was executed by a firing squad. Before he died he wrote to Bill Haywood, another IWW leader, "Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize." Socialism, — Howard Zinn

The bandage will remain on the eyes of Justice as long as the Capitalist has the cut, shuffle, and deal. — Bill Haywood

At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone's got five security guards. You can't talk to anybody. You always feel out of place, like, 'Hey, the rednecks are in town!' — Dave Haywood

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves. — Dave Haywood

That humans have conscious thought is the one thing that separates them from everything else, but that conscious thought has wrought more damage than all of the combined life that went before them. — R.R. Haywood

Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to. — Eliza Haywood

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way. — Dave Haywood

These are the lords
That have bought titles: men may merchandise
Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities
From sea to sea, and from shore to shore:
But in my thought, of all things that are sold,
'Tis pity honor should be bought for gold:
It cuts off all desert. — Eliza Haywood

The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week. — Spencer Haywood

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition. — Eliza Haywood

A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike. — Bill Haywood

I'm blessed, and people's responses to me have never been negative. — Haywood Nelson

I stayed close to my family. My family never changed. — Haywood Nelson

Some might not know that 'What's Happening' was the television version of 'Cooly High.' When I went on the audition, it was an audition for exactly that: the TV version of the movie. — Haywood Nelson

Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day! — Bill Haywood

We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there. — Dave Haywood

We actually added an extra electric guitar to beef up 'Need You Now', but we haven't changed any of this 'Own The Night' record at all for the international releases. — Dave Haywood

I had the opportunity to do what I enjoy. — Haywood Nelson

I was starting out in the business, there was only one path to playing professionally - graduate, or go four years. With the creation of the ABA [American Basketball Association] in the early 1970s, the sanctity of having to go to college was broken. The ABA took anyone, starting with Spencer Haywood. — Sonny Vaccaro

It is always weird to be in the studio working on Christmas music in June and July, so we decorated the entire studio, we really did. We brought out lights, fake trees and decorated the place to get in the Christmas spirit. You'd leave the studio, and it'd be 100 degrees out in Nashville, but nonetheless, a great experience. — Dave Haywood

If folks don't like the way you look, they almost never take the time to find anything out about you. They just make up their own stories — Ann Haywood Leal

Hold on to that. You have an autograph. I'm going to be famous some day. — Haywood Nelson

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject. — Eliza Haywood

Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be. — Carolyn Haywood