#hook

My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I was hooked, started trying to play various instruments and was off to bar land to become a rock star. What else? ↗

— Kevin Johnson

#background #bar #become #classical #day

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#feel #grabbed #hook #i #i feel

I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#around #def #him #hook #i

I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues. ↗

— Otis Rush

#bluegrass #blues #come #country #eddie

We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#aid program #being #days #debt #demands

Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#available #explores #features #great #hooked

We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#architectural #back #beautifully #bone #cut

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#came #clever #english #english language #game

I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#down #guitar #guitar playing #guitar solos #hooks

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#crook #following #foolproof #grass #grass roots