William Bell Quotes

• 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

  Dream, Song, Growing Up

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• We gather knowledge faster than we gather wisdom.

  William Bell

  Faster

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• I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.

  William Bell

  Night, Islands, Years

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• You don't miss your water
  'Till your well runs dry.

  William Bell

  Running, Water, Missing

  "You Don't Miss Your Water". Song by William Bell, 1965.

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• To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.

  William Bell

  Kings, Men, Claims

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• The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

  William Bell

  Important, Firsts, Facts

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• When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was "Everybody Loves a Winner.

  William Bell

  Couple, Writing, Records

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• The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.

  William Bell

  Song, Years, Paper

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• 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

  Military, School, Weekend

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• When you're trying to love two, it sure ain't easy to do.

  William Bell

  Two, Infidelity, Trying

  Song: Tryin' To Love Two

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• The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct.

  William Bell

  Accepted, Versions

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