#blue

I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#blue #i #i always #like #purple

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#berlin #blues #greatest #him #his

The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there'd be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#acoustic guitar #baltimore #be a man #been #blues

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#am #blue #i #red #roses

Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#anything #blue #came #censors #expecting

How much do you have to pay someone to be in a George Clooney/Alexander Payne film? Nothing! Because everyone in the world wants to be a part of it. Therefore you pay nothing. And that continues until you become something they need... I'm not that kind of actor. I'm blue collar and very replaceable. ↗

— Matthew Lillard

#alexander #because #become #blue #blue collar

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#armies #asia #blue #chest #combined

I am very excited to be here in Wales and look forward to putting on the Cardiff Blues shirt. ↗

— Jonah Lomu

#blues #excited #forward #here #i

Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God. ↗

— Trent Lott

#blue #both #defined #god #hollywood

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#blue #green #grey #ocean #silent