#heard

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#big #booster #bud #came #chicago

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me. ↗

— Robin Trower

#blues #clock #first #heard #i

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#between #eat #especially #heard #need

Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#art #bring #dealing #different #different way

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#bob #bob dylan #dylan #guitar #heard

The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists. ↗

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

#abuse #anymore #arrests #child #child abuse

For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#centuries #chance #cry #emerge #freedoms

I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard. ↗

— Julie Walters

#asked #doing #ever #funniest #funniest thing

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of. ↗

— Julie Walters

#actually #austen #days #extraordinary #jane

One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#al #al gore #because #bush #debate