Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power ...
MARK B. COHEN Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
MARK B. COHEN There's no sense of proportion. There's no sense of analysis.
MARK COHEN I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
B. B. KING When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ...
B. B. KING In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
B. B. KING It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
B. B. KING I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
B. B. KING Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
B. B. KING I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
B. B. KING I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
B. B. KING You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
B. B. KING Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
B. B. KING I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
B. B. KING I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who ...
B. B. KING What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, ...
B. B. KING I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands h...
B. B. KING I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the...
B. B. KING Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the...
B. B. KING A lot of people believe what other people say.
B. B. KING If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're ...
B. B. KING I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
B. B. KING When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ...
B. B. KING I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an a...
JEFF COHEN Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be pa...
JOSHUA COHEN When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
LEONARD COHEN At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challeng...
LEONARD COHEN This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have t...
LEONARD COHEN If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
LEONARD COHEN And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.
LEONARD COHEN I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass d...
LEONARD COHEN My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.
LEONARD COHEN Success is survival.
LEONARD COHEN We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. A...
LEONARD COHEN We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're p...
LEONARD COHEN When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That'...
LEONARD COHEN There were times that I thought I was good looking.
LEONARD COHEN I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd...
LEONARD COHEN I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to ...
LEONARD COHEN Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
LEONARD COHEN There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writer...
LARRY COHEN All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment ...
LARRY COHEN Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies ...
LARRY COHEN Are you eating it? Or is it eating you?
LARRY COHEN The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terri...
LARRY COHEN I've really hung in there with my BlackBerry. The main reason I like it better than an iPhone is...
ANDY COHEN I work out at Will Space four times a week. It's a private training gym. It's owned by my tr...
ANDY COHEN We are still the same flea market, just a new location. And we are keeping our fingers crossed that ...
AL COHEN We have to shift our thinking a little, too. We have to make people in town now more aware of what w...
AL COHEN We had a lot to contend with last year after being moved off the turnpike. But we learned a lot.
AL COHEN It is just like a regular Broadway musical review.
AL COHEN I love divas. Madonna, Mariah, Beyonce, Britney.
ANDY COHEN When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long a...
ADAM COHEN Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By...
ADAM COHEN The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.
ADAM COHEN Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local...
ADAM COHEN It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shi...
ADAM COHEN The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of ...
ADAM COHEN It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about...
ADAM COHEN It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act tha...
ADAM COHEN Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many...
ADAM COHEN Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in ...
ADAM COHEN A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a reco...
ADAM COHEN The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the cr...
ADAM COHEN Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other ite...
ADAM COHEN Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.
ADAM COHEN To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting ...
ADAM COHEN Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and w...
ADAM COHEN It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such ...
ADAM COHEN In the James Cameron blockbuster 'Avatar,' 3-D cinematography is the real star. The bugs and...
ADAM COHEN Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
ADAM COHEN People's genes can say a great deal about their health. There are genes that reveal an increased...
ADAM COHEN A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge o...
ADAM COHEN There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: alw...
ADAM COHEN Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
ADAM COHEN When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left...
ADAM COHEN One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work a...
ADAM COHEN The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
ADAM COHEN Puberty was the main culprit in ending my acting career. I went from being kind of this chunky littl...
JEFF COHEN We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having t...
LEONARD COHEN Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to t...
ADAM COHEN Sometimes I get frustrated in traffic. I typically start going deep with my cab driver and Twitter f...
ANDY COHEN I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make...
BENJAMIN COHEN You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, a...
ALAN COHEN How good can you let it get?
ALAN COHEN Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.
ALAN COHEN To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. I...
ALAN COHEN Our history is not our destiny
ALAN COHEN Red gave us a choice. If we came up (to Boston) Sunday, we could eat Chinese. If we came up Monday, ...
ALAN COHEN It's an established fact. Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, an...
RICH COHEN Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everythi...
LEONARD COHEN My week is full-tilt boogie. I wake up every morning, and the singular thought in my head is that ma...
LYOR COHEN I really liked the food in Japan. There is something so organized, neat, and methodical about it. Th...
SASHA COHEN If undertaken, it would be aimed at extending, not ending, the current economic expansion.
ABBY COHEN Such a 'flu shot' is now widely expected and would be unlikely to unsettle investors beyond a transi...
ABBY COHEN We expect 1999 and 2000 to be years of ongoing profit expansion, with better aggregate gains than 19...
ABBY COHEN The basic conclusion is that 1999-2000 will bring further gains in corporate profits, mild-mannered ...
ABBY COHEN If crude prices are near their trough, earnings should start to flatten out and move up.
ABBY COHEN The principal conclusion is that we expect profit growth to continue through our new forecast horizo...
ABBY COHEN I think what we had today was a disconnect between the stock market and the economy. The U.S. econom...
ABBY COHEN I think it was more of an excuse. Weakness in Asia just hurts a strong economy a little bit around t...
ABBY COHEN Data suggest that economic activity has bottomed and that the worst is now being reported for corpor...
ABBY COHEN Models work when they are appropriate for the particular circumstance, but some of the best investme...
ABBY COHEN I do think advancement benefits my family as whole.
ADAM COHEN Its hard to have a decent family life and advance at work,
ADAM COHEN Cats in the Cradle.
ADAM COHEN The building is actually steel and concrete, which is more like the new construction we're doing. So...
ADAM COHEN Everything we were doing back then was utilizing historic tax credits, but this did not qualify beca...
ADAM COHEN [The Miami relatives also failed to persuade the court that no Cuban medical or mental health person...
ADAM COHEN [That ruling may bode well for Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who has petitioned the court to recognize his e...
ADAM COHEN So far, Washington has done little and New Orleans' response has been less than satisfying.
ADAM COHEN Ultimately, it will go to help the hurricane victims in Bloomington and also be transported down to ...
ADAM COHEN The Bonanza was potentially in the path of flights. We needed to stop all departing traffic to keep ...
ADAM COHEN I like to listen to African music; I like to listen to Brazilian music that's not just Choro. I ...
ANAT COHEN You know, we've got so much on Bravo and coming up on Bravo, and I think we have so much more go...
ANDY COHEN You know, 'Project Runway' was a really special show, and we had a great five seasons with i...
ANDY COHEN Ultimately, it's not my job to judge the 'Housewives' - we don't editorialize on the...
ANDY COHEN I started working at Bravo in 2005, when I was offered a job by Lauren Zalaznick, the network's ...
ANDY COHEN When I was working at Trio, I was pitched 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' and I knew, whoev...
ANDY COHEN If you look at the people who make up the Bravo landscape from Jeff Lewis to Rachel Zoe and Padma La...
ANDY COHEN It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple
LEONARD COHEN Listen to me, Amin," I said slowly. "Listen to me very carefully. Nothing is the same. Nothing will ...
BARBARA COHEN Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in ever...
LEONARD COHEN There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN