#memphis

I accepted an offer to do a concert for the reopening of the Mall of Memphis. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#concert #i #mall #memphis #offer

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#capital #church #growing #growing up #i

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#again #anything #come #found #got

Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it. ↗

— William Bell

#busy #complete #dreaming #first #growing

Memphis is a great town, man. There's a great musical community here. I'm trying to fit in. ↗

— Charles Moore

#fit #great #here #i #man

I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli. ↗

— David Johansen

#got #i #like #liza #looking

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#avails #become #character #city #dares

When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes. ↗

— William Bell

#bar #came #club #had #i