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  • I think it is good for people who are incarcerated or who are bound up one way or the other-people like Lily Kimball and all the prostitues of Memphis. This gal, she needs some wings, and a good song can make that happen.

    Song   Writing   Thinking  
  • Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.

    Art   Memphis   Enough  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

    Real   Men   Records  
  • Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.

  • If someone had said to me ten years ago "Yo, we have this role of this pimp who wants to be a rapper, he lives in Memphis", I'd be like, "Really?" But then when you read it and you see it, you say "That's a great role."

    Rapper   Years   Pimp  
    "Morris Chestnut On When the Bough Breaks & Executive Producing". Interview with Screen Rant, screenrant.com. August 12, 2016.
  • I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

    Justin Timberlake, Susan Black (2003). “Justin Timberlake”, Omnibus Press& Schirmer Trade Books
  • That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

    Dream   Growing Up   Air  
    "Music's Man in Black". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.
  • I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.

    Names   Memphis   Firsts  
  • ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls.

  • When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes.

  • When Lonnie Mack came out with the guitar instrumental "Memphis" I thought, Oh God, finally somebody we guitar players can relate to !

    Music   Player   Guitar  
  • Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.

    House   Memphis   Sticks  
  • All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.

    Ohio   Cities   Circles  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.133, Bantam Classics
  • Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis

  • Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth.

    Dad   House   Memphis  
    "A New Life, Album for Lisa Marie Presley". www.elle.com. April 25, 2012.
  • I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.

  • After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got turned on to the blues. I realized how important it was to our music in England at the time. Everyone was into the blues. Then you start looking at the different kinds of blues, and you follow the journey backwards from Chicago to earlier times back down to the Delta to the Memphis Blues.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No.

    Museums   Memphis   Stuff  
  • I'll stay in Memphis.

    Memphis  
  • The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, "Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day". And 15 years later, I did.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas and he would play the blues.

    Kings   Years   Play  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • I have opinions about the differences between Memphis barbecue and Texas barbecue. Put me in the kitchen and you'll see how Southern I can be.

    Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
  • Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County.

    John Grisham (2004). “The Last Juror”, Doubleday Books
  • I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.

    "Sex, Drugs, and Drag". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. March 3, 2011.
  • I try to think about Elvis, Memphis, Oprah in the afternoon.

    Song: I Try To Think About Elvis, Album: When Fallen Angels Fly
  • Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started writing my own stuff.

    Writing   Long   Bars  
    "Bryan Hayes To Play At Sweet T Market". Interview With Linley Stringer, maroonweekly.com. December 2, 2015.
  • Memphis are a big part of who I am, but it's still just a part

    Who I Am   Memphis   Bigs  
  • [William] Eggleston's photographs look like they were taken by a Martian who lost the ticket for his flight home and ended up working at a gun shop in a small town near Memphis. On the weekend he searches for the ticket - it must be somewhere - with a haphazard thoroughness that confounds established methods of investigation.

    Taken   Home   Weekend  
  • It's been a pleasure to bring my talents to south beach now on to Memphis.

    Beach   Memphis   Talent  
    Twitter post from Nov 12, 2010
  • Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants gather around them in rituals. In the Land of the Dead there was a sycamore in whose branches the goddess Hathor lived; she leaned out of it giving sustenance and water to deceased souls. In Memphis, Hathor's epithet was Lady of the Sycamore.

    Life   Art   Egypt  
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