Ronnie James Dio quote: "Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life."

Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brut...
RONNIE JAMES DIO

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.
RONNIE JAMES DIO

I always wanted to be a basketball player.
RONNIE JAMES DIO

Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their...
RONNIE JAMES DIO

I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has...
RONNIE JAMES DIO

You can't tell young people what to do. You can't tell 'em because they'll look at y...
RONNIE JAMES DIO

My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving fami...
RONNIE JAMES DIO

The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem a...
DIO LEWIS

It's mental, getting used to the tempo. It keeps getting faster. I just try to keep up.
DIO DANTE

We're not overlooking anyone. If you underestimate teams, that's when they come back and bite you in...
DIO DANTE

At least (the fracture) is farther out on the extremity. I can still make contact with the ball. It'...
DIO DANTE

Dragon is doing a great job.
DIO DANTE

It's sore, and it's always in the back of my mind, but it's no big deal. It's a little obstacle I ha...
DIO DANTE

He's a good guy. He's everybody's friend, for sure. We're going to miss him. It was a pretty bad bre...
DIO DANTE

I'm pretty (ticked) off about it right now. I don't need it.
DIO DANTE

It's very temperamental. I still missed a couple, but it was much better than (Friday) night. I'm pr...
DIO DANTE

Our block today really carried over from our experience last night. I felt like we didn't leave the ...
DIO DANTE

I had so much fun in that match. We were all pretty pumped up. We were all pretty motivated to win.
DIO DANTE

He hits so hard, it's scary. I'm glad he's on our team.
DIO DANTE

He works miracles. He did a great job.
DIO DANTE

We wanted to serve to the blue shirts. You would never suspect that floater would work. Who needs a ...
DIO DANTE

As for my state of Mississippi, our governor, Phil Bryant, said the state could not afford the match...
RONNIE MUSGROVE

All those I admired as a young performer had a calmness to their comedy.
RONNIE CORBETT

I feel like I am campaigning door to door. You just can't step out of a band like Brooks & D...
RONNIE DUNN

I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan...
RONNIE WOOD

Golf is the most fascinating game, but other people's game is the most boring thing.
RONNIE CORBETT

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.
RONNIE MILSAP

I was freaking out when Brooks & Dunn were breaking up. I thought 'We play a ton of rodeos, ...
RONNIE DUNN

The probability of meeting someone you know increases a hundredfold when you're with someone you're ...
RONNIE SHAKES

I don't need a psychiatrist to prod into my personal life and make me tell them all my secrets, I ha...
RONNIE SHAKES

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.
RONNIE SHAKES

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
RONNIE LOTT

I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say.
RONNIE SHAKES

To be honest, we donate to projects that we think are meaningful. How society views it or how we are...
RONNIE CHAN

It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define ...
RONNIE CHAN

I just keep jogging along, and people seem to like me. And for that I am very grateful.
RONNIE CORBETT

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.
RONNIE BARKER

When companies are trying to find a state to locate a new business or factory, they look at a number...
RONNIE MUSGROVE

We do things on an exchange basis in the music business - it keeps the wheels turning. That's ho...
RONNIE WOOD

Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.
RONNIE O'SULLIVAN

But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunati...
RONNIE BARKER

My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground...
RONNIE DUNN

We had hoped to have been bringing you Arthur the Human Chameleon, but this afternoon, he crawled ac...
RONNIE BARKER

I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bi...
RONNIE WOOD

The issue of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals has vexed politicia...
RONNIE MUSGROVE

I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez...
RONNIE WOOD

Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the ...
RONNIE MUSGROVE

Next week we'll be investigating rumours that the president of the dairy council has become a Ma...
RONNIE BARKER

I had prostate cancer that, for me, was debilitating. I didn't touch a guitar for two years, but...
RONNIE MONTROSE

I suppose to the outside world I do seem slightly obsessed. But I once had a balance problem with my...
RONNIE CORBETT

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.
RONNIE COLEMAN

If you donate to the mainland, it's not as simple as giving money. You need a lot of psychologic...
RONNIE CHAN

We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually chall...
RONNIE HAWKINS

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.
RONNIE BARKER

I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help r...
RONNIE WOOD

Comedy taste changes. It only changes slightly, but there's always a different angle, a differen...
RONNIE CORBETT

You need strong leadership to effectuate change, and the easiest way is to keep everything status qu...
RONNIE CHAN

My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.
RONNIE SHAKES

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good ...
RONNIE SHAKES

I like life. It's something to do.
RONNIE SHAKES

After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said,...
RONNIE SHAKES

I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What the hell goo...
RONNIE SHAKES

We are committed to taking the culprits to task.
RONNIE MAMBA

I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.
RONNIE WOOD

It's good fun, making a solo album, because there's perhaps songs that wouldn't get used...
RONNIE WOOD

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion. And as I have gotten older, I came...
RONNIE MUSGROVE

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think ...
RONNIE DUNN

I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety a...
RONNIE CORBETT

You get fed up watching shows with not much care and love, reality programmes where they put people ...
RONNIE CORBETT

Gamma was a logical progression after doing the Open Fire record.
RONNIE MONTROSE

I have had the most spoiled golfing life.
RONNIE CORBETT

Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Brita...
RONNIE BARKER

We're at our best when Keith and Mick (are/aren't) getting along, ... As songwriters, they seem to b...
RONNIE WOOD

He's tighter than two coats of paint.
RONNIE WOOD

The only exercise Keith does is lifting the bottle to the mouth.
RONNIE WOOD

Mary was superb. But we missed a lot of shots that we've got to make. That's been a problem for us i...
RONNIE BOND

All my life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend.
RONNIE WOOD

I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of ...
RONNIE DUNN

The most important thing, the biggest love of my life, is my snooker. I've never been so emotion...
RONNIE O'SULLIVAN

Barker was a great writer, a great actor and a great loss to us all. I think God must have needed ch...
RONNIE BARKER

We have decided that this offence is too serious for a community sentence. You will be sent to a you...
RONNIE BARKER

The man who invented the zip fastener was today honoured with a lifetime peerage. He'll now be known...
RONNIE BARKER

... And it's goodnight from him.
RONNIE BARKER

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's t...
RONNIE BARKER

I mean, Janet Jackson? She's like Michael Jackson with hair.
RONNIE SPECTOR

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pr...
RONNIE MONTROSE

My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open...
RONNIE DUNN

They were flown from the Seychelles to London.
RONNIE MAMOEPA

No, it sounds familiar,
RONNIE BROWN

I missed two games, but from the standpoint of being behind, we have a new game plan for this week,
RONNIE BROWN

I think we've seen a few glimpses of that with Ricky and myself both being in the backfield at the s...
RONNIE BROWN

[While he gets his bearings, he's still living in a hotel, although he's found a place in the Fort L...
RONNIE BROWN

You see a lot of people going around trying to do as much possible, but I think at this point you re...
RONNIE BROWN

Especially against a defense like that, it feels great,
RONNIE BROWN

[Brown said he and Cadillac, the No. 5 pick by Tampa Bay, have kept in touch about their parallel ex...
RONNIE BROWN

I tried to loosen it up in the dugout. But I knew I blew it out.
RONNIE BELLIARD

When companies are trying to find a state to locate a new business or factory, they look at a number...
RONNIE MUSGROVE

We did Donald McGill, seaside-postcard stuff - middle of the road.
RONNIE CORBETT

Married life is absolutely brilliant.
RONNIE WOOD

Our comedy was light-hearted amusement that seemingly tripped naturally off the tongue. That's w...
RONNIE CORBETT

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of moder...
RONNIE WOOD

Granados was tough and strong but couldn't cope with Dixon's speed and movement. It was a cracking d...
RONNIE ROWE

I love the 'Delilah' show. I've been listening to it for years and years. It's incre...
RONNIE MILSAP

All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be...
RONNIE WOOD

Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying ...
RONNIE LOTT

If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?
RONNIE VANZANT

I am a cross between Carl Perkins and Led Zeppelin.
RONNIE HAWKINS

In the long-term, these people are going to be out of work like we've seen our people out of work,
RONNIE HAWKINS

They should never have to hire anybody from outside for big jobs in Canada. It's weird thinking, ......
RONNIE HAWKINS

I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs...
RONNIE HAWKINS

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
RONNIE HAWKINS

It's Saturday night. Let's get drunk.
RONNIE HAWKINS

Marriage is like a phonograph record. You get what you like on one side and take what you get on the...
RONNIE JOHNSON

Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing fo...
RONNIE HAWKINS

A great epiphany: I found out that I'm totally confused and I'm good with that. I'm cons...
RONNIE DUNN

Conservatives are telling elected leaders that expansion of Medicaid comes at a moral - or more over...
RONNIE MUSGROVE

A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the loo...
RONNIE CORBETT

We haven't seen the win column in a while. I was disappointed with our mental approach for this game...
RONNIE ELMORE

A true friend does not take over and a true friend never tells you to lead you do it together.
RONNIE HAIK

Love is a gift from god and you shall charish it your whole life time.
RONNIE HAIK

You Can't Spell 'Star' Without A&R.
RONNIE VANNUCCI

Normally, you see prices tend to go backwards in a drought with exceeding amounts of cattle hitting ...
RONNIE BECK

I wanted to live in Nashville. I wanted to sing country.
RONNIE MILSAP

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.
RONNIE O'SULLIVAN

I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.
RONNIE SPECTOR

I'm more lost when I'm not on tour. I'm in a bit of a muddle at nine o'clock - '...
RONNIE WOOD

Part of my style was getting into a muddle. Audiences think that's part of the act. Sometimes it...
RONNIE CORBETT

It keeps the camaraderie between the players.
RONNIE DAVIS

He made a mistake. It's been hard for me to get hits with two outs and guys on base. I'm excited we ...
RONNIE BELLIARD

They swung the bats pretty good, they scored a lot of run. We've got to come back tomorrow and do th...
RONNIE BELLIARD

Before the game, ... I told C.C., 'You're the guy and we're going to score runs for you.' We just ha...
RONNIE BELLIARD

I can't exactly remember when I might have done it ? maybe on that play against Minnesota.
RONNIE BELLIARD

I turned around the bases slow. I thought I was going to come out of the game, [but] I figured, if I...
RONNIE BELLIARD

He was dealing. He was getting ahead, then he was able to throw his split. He hit his spots. Sometim...
RONNIE BELLIARD

I noticed more and more people gathering around me. I had absolutely no idea I had converted to Isla...
RONNIE O'SULLIVAN

That was fantastic snooker. It really was unbelievable. I've never seen anything like that before, ....
RONNIE O'SULLIVAN

If I lost, so what. If I won, so what. My heart's not in it, but what else would I be doing?
RONNIE O'SULLIVAN

I want to put my cue in the boot and get out the back door.
RONNIE O'SULLIVAN

I can't wait to get playing again. I want to carry on for another 15 years and I am as motivated now...
RONNIE O'SULLIVAN

He went up for a ball and came down awkwardly on his ankle, badly straining ligaments,
RONNIE MCFALL

After one week, it sold a million records. Then it went on to sell five million. I was 26 years old ...
RONNIE MCDOWELL

Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is...
RONNIE OLDHAM

They're a very good, disciplined team. We scratched to tie it and found a way to push one across in ...
RONNIE DAVIS

It is difficult to say, but Wesley could be out for six to eight weeks.
RONNIE MCFALL

President Thabo Mbeki will meet with the UN secretary-general within the context of South Africa's c...
RONNIE MAMOEPA

As the night progressed, ... I noticed that every 50-something guest felt obligated to pull Leslie a...
RONNIE SELLERS

Physical pain is temporary but words can never be taken back and have pain on a person forever.
RONNIE HAIK

Sometimes you feel sad and a friend can help a friend is not the Sheppard and he is not the lamb or ...
RONNIE HAIK

Life is a maze sometimes you take the wrong way then mess up completely and maybe you will get back ...
RONNIE HAIK

Fights are danger sometimes they go away and sometimes they never do losing a friend is painful stay...
RONNIE HAIK

It gives a work/life balance. It allows the employees to use the high-speed connection at work, but ...
RONNIE MANNING

Life is a gift from god so when you complain think off the things you have and the food and water yo...
RONNIE HAIK

It's nice to get awards but the only awards I want are titles. They probably voted for me because I ...
RONNIE O'SULLIVAN

Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you i...
RONNIE CORBETT

We like to push the ball and press as much as we can. It's a style that the players like to play, co...
RONNIE ARROW

Not being in conference hurt our program. When we started beating people we have gotten more respect...
RONNIE ARROW

We want to be a new Gonzaga. We want to be a mid-major that is thought of as a major. We have to con...
RONNIE ARROW

We really got after it defensively, and I thought that was the key to the game. Our defense was real...
RONNIE ARROW

They're very big, they're very athletic. That's absolutely the worst that we attacked the press mayb...
RONNIE ARROW

They weren't protecting the shooters. And just before (the ejection), our player took a charge when ...
RONNIE ARROW

The difference in the game is that they had 33 points off our turnovers. We knew we couldn't afford ...
RONNIE ARROW

We're in a beautiful area, we're on an island. Guys can go 25 feet from their rooms and catch supper...
RONNIE ARROW

We have one of the hardest, top 10 schedules. Maybe not in terms of RPI, but I'd like to see some of...
RONNIE ARROW

We also have salad bars at our high schools.
RONNIE ARNOLD

You never know what's going to happen next. People just don't perform the way you expect them to per...
RONNIE ARNOLD

If you had 100 kids paying, that's not bad in tax-free money.
RONNIE ARNOLD

I don't know how you have a basketball coach if he's suspended for the entire season. It's a fair st...
RONNIE ARNOLD

It's not bad if you can make an extra $100 a day tax free.
RONNIE ARNOLD

There's been some strange things happen, but this is one of the most bizarre things I've ever heard.
RONNIE ARNOLD

When 80 percent to 85 percent of the money is already directed toward salaries, you can't make any r...
RONNIE ARNOLD

The first thing they will look at is what's on the table.
RONNIE ARNOLD

State legislation passed a law allowing phones on campus. But we are trying to determine if the stud...
RONNIE ARNOLD

It's like a trial. Like a first run to establish data.
RONNIE ARNOLD

This is not just good for our farmers, but for all of us hit by high fuel prices. Federal mandates a...
RONNIE ANDERSON

Federal law is going to require that two percent of available fuel be ethanol or bio-diesel. So, it'...
RONNIE ANDERSON

Kitchens are forevermore an integral part of the home. Everybody wants larger kitchens and they are ...
RONNIE ANDERSON

So many people have asked how they can help. We've got people donating thousands of dollars. ... Peo...
RONNIE ANDERSON

In several cases, I'm convinced the financial and personal help these producers have received from o...
RONNIE ANDERSON

During King of Spring contest we moved up a couple of spots and we are now seventh in the nation.
RONNIE ANDERSON

We found a completely new audience.
RONNIE CORBETT

Ronnie was pure gold in triplicate - as a performer, a writer and a friend.
RONNIE CORBETT

But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way th...
RONNIE SPECTOR

After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled...
RONNIE MUSGROVE

A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people ...
RONNIE HAWKINS

Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical,...
RONNIE WOOD

It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.
RONNIE CORBETT

I do have to step out and take time to let people know that I'm Ronnie Dunn and not Brooks and D...
RONNIE DUNN

David Frost plucked me from the nightclubs.
RONNIE CORBETT

Important state legislative races and statewide elections for offices like Lt. Governor and Attorney...
RONNIE MUSGROVE

Especially against a defence like that, it feels great,
RONNIE BROWN

I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I th...
RONNIE O'SULLIVAN

Songs are dangerous, songs are subversive and can change your life.
RONNIE GILBERT

It simply came back year after year after year. The first letter I wrote Congress to oppose eliminat...
RONNIE CUMMINS

I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School fo...
RONNIE MILSAP

We progress a step farther, in each tick of the clock
RONNIE CORNELISZ

I have an A rating from the NRA.
RONNIE MUSGROVE

Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career i...
RONNIE SPECTOR

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.
RONNIE SPECTOR

The Southern Progress Fund will bring much-needed resources into multiple Southern states where Demo...
RONNIE MUSGROVE

I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a ...
RONNIE MONTROSE

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

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Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

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