American Quotes

I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.

I got tired of playing other people's songs.

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer.

Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.

At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.

This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.

It's one thing to reject the idea that it's a man's job to bring home all the bacon; it's another the 500th time your wife reaches for the check at dinner.

I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters.

For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise.

Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder.

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.

I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.

I'm playin' the music I like.

I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.

I just have a lot off different influences.

I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.