Jimmy Quotes - Page 4

• I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Powerful, Bird, Pages

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• Jimmy Dickens was the essence of country music and the heart of the Grand Ole Opry.

  Connie Smith

  Country, Heart, Essence

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• I love Aerosmith. I love Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, anything from that era, Led Zeppelin. So my guitar style is very much like Slash or Jimmy Page. I love playing that kind of music. It's where my heart's at.

  Billy Unger

  Heart, Gun, Guitar

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Being Me, Presenter, Screens

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• Here's the irony of this moment on Smackdown: Jimmy crack corn and I DO care.

  Todd Grisham

  Wwe, Cracks, Care

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• Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he [Jimmy Carter] puts nostalgia in its place.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Loss, Men, People

  "McLuhan's last words". "New Scientist" Magazine, January 29, 1981.

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• President Obama is a president so weak that he makes Jimmy Carter look strong.

  Newt Gingrich

  Strong, President, Looks

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• The way I look at the top five, (Rod) Laver, (Roger) Federer, myself, Borg and (Ivan) Lendl. I think those five guys dominated their generations better than anyone. Maybe Roger will dominate better than any one of the other four. Maybe I put Andre (Agassi) as kind of six through 10 with, you know, (John) McEnroe and (Jimmy) Connors, kind of those guys. That's kind of how I see it.

  Pete Sampras

  Thinking, Guy, Generations

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• During a recent press conference, former President Jimmy Carter said he could never run for president today because he doesn't have a lot of money. Well, that and the fact that he's the famously bad president Jimmy Carter.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, President, Today

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• Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm overpaid!

  Johnny Bench

  Fighting, Wind, Games

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• People ask me, Jimmy, howd you get here tonight. Lets just say it involved a two-hour make-out session with Elaine Stritch. It got pretty heavy actually, I almost had to host.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Two, People, Tonight

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• I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.

  Kevin Spacey

  Likes, Firsts, Remember

  "Kevin Spacey answers your questions - as it happened". Live chat, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2014.

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• I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.

  Carlton Fisk

  Sports, Wall, Thinking

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• Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot.

  Ivan Lendl

  Sports, Order, Balls

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• ... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters

  Albert Lee

  Music, Guitar, Sound

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• I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with Gene Vincent, as was I ... these were the rock and roll guys who really sparked our interest in the guitar, and later we delved into other things and went different directions ... during my time with Eric Clapton, we talked about what we'd listened to early on, and he was a huge fan of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis

  Albert Lee

  Music, Guitar, Rock And Roll

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• ... Aqualung was a difficult and very tense album to record... while I was playing the solo, Jimmy Page walked into the control room and started waving, I thought, should I wave back and mess up the solo or should I just grin and carry on ? ... I just grinned

  Martin Barre

  Music, Pages, Rooms

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• ... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved about .. that's what he's famous for, but his first Les Paul was a Custom like mine ... I can remember he played a Gretsch before that

  Albert Lee

  Music, Pages, Firsts

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• The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity

  Joe Perry

  Music, Play, People

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• I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out.

  Stefan Edberg

  Sports, Thinking, People

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• I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

  Gregg Allman

  Play, Hank Williams, Halls

  Interview with Paul Harris, paulharrisonline.blogspot.com. December 12, 1997.

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• Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Light, Waiting, Leaving

  "Excerpt: 'Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy'" by Vincent Bugliosi, abcnews.go.com. May 15, 2007.

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• I think the difference the Jimmy Carter presidency and the Obama regime is navet and maliciousness. I think this is purposeful maliciousness. That's why what you're seeing now in this administration. I don't think they care for this country. And I think they're trying to make it into some kind of third-world socialistic cesspool. I think they are willing to get in bed with any dictator or despotic ruler that they see.

  Allen West

  Country, Thinking, Differences

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• I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

  Deana Carter

  Europe, Nails, Firsts

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• If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.

  Jimmy Rushing

  Rushing, Typical, Records

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