Womack Quotes & Sayings

I'm the most low-maintenance person on the road. — Lee Ann Womack

There was passion, there was laughter
The first morning after
I just couldn't get my feet to touch the ground
Everytime we were together
We talked about forever
I was certain it was Heaven
We had found. — Lee Ann Womack

I like to swim, I like to play with my dogs and I love to eat - but I have to start watching that because my suits are getting too small. — Bobby Womack

We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well. — Lee Ann Womack

Not long after we started working for him I asked Bernard if he thought Thatcher was evil,'I said. 'He said it was like asking what jazz is. — Jack Womack

When I first played New York, it was with James Brown at the Apollo, and I was playing in a band under the name The Valentinos. I remember Sam Cooke saying, 'I want you to go in there with James Brown. I couldn't be as hard on you as James Brown would be.' But we came out marching like soldiers. — Bobby Womack

I think people like it when I tell them, 'I'm lucky to be here, because they are, too. Ain't nothing to do with age. There ain't nothing promised to you. Everybody's going to die. — Bobby Womack

I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here ... Not a day goes by that I don't think about Sam Cooke. His presence is so strong and so convincing to me, a true artist, a true talent, who never talked down to people. — Bobby Womack

The one who actually decided that I should keep my name was my manager, Erv Woolsey. — Lee Ann Womack

I'm amazed by the ground that I covered. The music's the number-one thing. And if it isn't, you better quit now. — Bobby Womack

Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different. — Bobby Womack

You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know? — Bobby Womack

I think it is very important in this business to be an individual. — Lee Ann Womack

I want to reach as many people as I can. — Lee Ann Womack

Somebody's got to be last. Somebody's going to be first. — Steve Womack

You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, straight away. Now everyone sounds like each other, and I don't think that's right. — Bobby Womack

But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things. — Lee Ann Womack

Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable. — Steve Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old. — Bobby Womack

Never settle for the path of least resistance — Lee Ann Womack

I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it. — Maya Angelou

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them. — Bobby Womack

Books are gems. Books which leaves your spine aching from sitting up all night reading them;
Books whose characters live in the bright corners of your mind.
Books which hold the limits of space and time within them;
Books which teach you all that man knows and all that man wants.
Books are power — Philip Womack

In my office, I have framed album covers by Dottie West, Connie Smith, Tammy, Dolly, Loretta and Jessi Colter. — Lee Ann Womack

But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music. — Lee Ann Womack

Across th street is a hell of a tester. — Bobby Womack

When you come close to selling out, reconsider. — Lee Ann Womack

You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion. — Bobby Womack

Leave them wanting more and you know they'll call you back. — Bobby Womack

It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears. — Lee Ann Womack

Being on United Artists was almost as bad as not being on any label at all. They were the crappiest in the business. All they did was movie soundtracks. Now, they were making an effort to become much hipper - signing people like Bobby Womack and what have you. — Don McLean

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath for granted. God forbid love ever leave you empty handed. — Lee Ann Womack

I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy's girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he'd walk past my room and I was listening to those records. — Lee Ann Womack

When I want to check out how my life's been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life. — Bobby Womack

Demand candor from commanding officers, and weigh heavily their recommendations. — Steve Womack

It takes so many people to make a success story like that. It starts with the song and the songwriters, then Mark Wright's producing, all of the players that played on it, me singing, the marketing department, the promotion department at the label ... It takes a lot of people to make a hit like that. — Lee Ann Womack

As is often the case, the sole person not left speechless in awe by my brilliance is my own beloved wife. — Jack Womack

We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?' — Bobby Womack

Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great. — Lee Ann Womack

In recent years a fashionable alternative to "make money and grow sales" was that organizational purpose was to steadily grow shareholder value. But now the king of shareholder value, General Electric's retired chairman Jack Welch, has acknowledged - thank goodness - that this is a result, not a strategy for achieving this result.2 Now — Jim Womack

Divination is a mirror, reflecting what is here and here," Kezia would tell her, pointing to Nettie's heart and head. Nettie nodded like a solemn student.

"Whatever the cards show you, always trust the words that well inside you. The truth is waiting to be heard. Never doubt it. — Gwendolyn Womack

Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories. — Bobby Womack

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are. — Lee Ann Womack

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't. — Lee Ann Womack

And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere. — Lee Ann Womack

Notice some of the beauty around you.Partake in joy. And when you get the choice to watch on the sidelines or to dance, get out there and dance- Lee Ann Womack — Ellyn Spragins

People think you have to go through a lot of changes to become a soul singer, You just have to go through life. — Bobby Womack

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that. — Lee Ann Womack

Converting a classic batch-and-queue production system to continuous flow with effective pull by the customer will double labor productivity all the way through the system (for direct, managerial, and technical workers, from raw materials to delivered product) while cutting production throughput times by 90 percent and reducing inventories in the system by 90 percent as well. — James P. Womack

I never gave up on music, and I feel like music never gave up on me. — Bobby Womack

Chicago is old stomping grounds for me. — Bobby Womack

He painted until the hours towered above him, pressing down upon his body and begging him to stop. — Gwendolyn Womack

I love Lee Ann Womack and John Prine. That's kind of my ideal cross point. If I can sing it like Lee Ann would and say it like John would, then I feel like I've gotten somewhere. — Kacey Musgraves

You don't know who your friends are ... until you're not like them anymore. — Jack Womack

On the news tonight the new President said there's no reason for anyone to worry about the situation. He didn't say which situation. — Jack Womack

My first big show was with Tim McGraw and Mark Chesnutt, and that was overwhelming. There was probably 25,000 people there. I was nervous, (but it) was exhilarating. — Lee Ann Womack

A baby almost killed me as I walked to work one morning. By passing beneath a bus shelter's roof at the ordained moment I lived to tell my tale. With strangers surrounding me I looked at what remained. Laoughter from heaven made us lift our eyes skyward. The baby's mother lowered her arms and leaned out her window. Without applause her audience drifted off, seeking crumbs in the gutters of this city of God. Xerox shingles covered the shelter's remaining glass pane, and the largest read:
Want to be crucified. Have own nails.
Leave message on machine.
The fringe of numbers along the ad's hem had been stripped away. My shoes crunched glass underfoot; my skirt clung to my legs as I continued down the street. November dawn's seventy-degree bath made my hair lose its set. Mother above appeared ready to take her own bow; I too, as ever, flew on alone. — Jack Womack

The satisfaction that I get from doing what I do is not what I thought. I thought it would be that I'd feel like a star, I'd feel important. But I don't. — Lee Ann Womack

A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things. — Lee Ann Womack

I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may. — Lee Ann Womack

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences. — Lee Ann Womack

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean. — Lee Ann Womack

Estee Lauder cologne. Sam Cooke always wore it, and I started wearing it because he wore it. — Bobby Womack

Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person. — Etta James

I was on stage with Cyndi Lauper, and my trousers split. It seemed like she was going to sing for ever. — Bobby Womack

Once upon a time, I could sing three hours. Now, when you see me say 'I'm done,' I'm done; ain't nothing left till the next night. — Bobby Womack

did a soul's path adhere to a pattern, like the connecting lines on a mandala? — Gwendolyn Womack

The brain is its own galaxy, with more cells than stars in the Milky Way. The most powerful organ in the body, it rivals any supercomputer, processing 90,000 to 150,000 thoughts a day through billions of neurons and trillions of synaptic connections. Now that we have found a pathway to retrieving memories that before were inaccessible, we are perfecting its function too quickly. — Gwendolyn Womack

I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living. — Bobby Womack

And for the past 10 years I've been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, they're all about that bottom line. So it's nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine. — Lee Ann Womack

When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers would make these instruments with their voices. It was just unbelievable. I couldn't explain it. — Bobby Womack

According to Plato, Socrates believed all knowledge came from a divine state, but humans had forgotten it. Most lived in a cave of ignorance, but one could become enlightened by climbing out of the darkness and understanding the divide between the spiritual and material planes. — Gwendolyn Womack

His smile brought back the best times, sweet memories of nights together ... stirring up those old feelings that got me thinkin' bout forever.. — Lee Ann Womack

Background vocals during her song "I Hope You Dance" ... 'Time is a wheel in constant motion always, rolling us along. Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder, where those years have gone.' — Lee Ann Womack

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes. — Lee Ann Womack

And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett. — Lee Ann Womack

I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart. — Bobby Womack

I'm not afraid to go out on a limb, style-wise or with lyrics. I don't ever want to be afraid to cut those types of songs because radio might not play it. — Lee Ann Womack

Today, as never before - the information media having become to enlightenment as the cereal aisle is to the supermarket - if you choose not to access the past, you are de facto free to rule it out of existence, at least so far as you might be concerned. — Jack Womack

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least resistance. Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin'. Lovin might be a mistake but it's worth makin'. — Lee Ann Womack

It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you. — Bobby Womack

At the end of the day, there's not an office complex anywhere on these grounds that I wouldn't be honored to have as a sitting member of Congress. — Steve Womack

I don't go out that much anymore, unfortunately. I used to enjoy it, but I'm just so busy. Like last night, everybody else went out, and I just went straight home and went to bed. — Lee Ann Womack

I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like it's the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it's not. — Lee Ann Womack

So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others. — Lee Ann Womack

Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers. — Kacey Musgraves

I met a zillion people through Ronnie Wood. He's been my friend since he was in The Faces, and he's still my best friend. A real person, earthy, working 24 hours a day, uplifting to be around, and he's still got that fire about music. — Bobby Womack

Well, probably having to be away from home. When I come back I kind of feel like there's a routine going on that I'm not a part of, so that can be difficult. — Lee Ann Womack

And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon. — Lee Ann Womack

I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is. — Lee Ann Womack

Her pants were so tight that if you cut her she wouldn't bleed — Jack Womack

The most important consideration I have is I want my legislative shop to have a functional office suite that is conducive to getting their work accomplished. — Steve Womack

Always remember the answers come not from the rock, the teacup, the shell, or the cards. The answers come from you. — Gwendolyn Womack

To divine is to imagine the world rightly, to see past the illusion that we are separate from the entire fabric of reality. — Gwendolyn Womack

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. — Lee Ann Womack

When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well. — Jack Womack

The satisfaction comes because you work hard and it pays off. It is not as glamorous as I thought it would be, but, you know, I appreciate it more than I ever knew I would, and I love it more than I ever knew I would. — Lee Ann Womack

Mama says mine is a night mind. — Jack Womack

I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s. — Bobby Womack

With this album, I tried not to think too much. If I heard a song that I loved, I promised myself I wouldn't over-think it. If I loved it and if I wanted to cut it, I would. — Lee Ann Womack