Whiskey Quotes - Page 12

• Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. Good old boys drinking whiskey and rye, singing, this'll be the day that I die.

  Don McLean

  Drinking, Boys, Bye

  "Song "American Pie" ("American Pie")". 1971.

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• ...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought it back, blaming the whiskey. The very idea was as dangerous as presumptive speech: happiness could not be sought or worried into being, or even fully grasped; it should be allowed its own slow pace so that it passes unnoticed, if it ever comes at all.

  John McGahern

  Ideas, Feelings, Pace

  "Amongst Women". Book by John McGahern, www.theguardian.com. 1990.

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• A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty whiskey bottles.

  Anosh Irani

  Believe, Loss, Bottles

  Anosh Irani (2013). “The Cripple And His Talismans”, p.26, HarperCollins Publishers India

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• It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.

  Dorothy Allison

  Girl, Dry, Littles

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• Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.

  Artie Shaw

  Bottles, Jazz, Cocaine

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• I was just staying home and getting stoned and drinking. It was a pretty rough period. I think that's kind of the whole theme of Indestructible Machine, how when you have social anxiety, you can sort of convince yourself that you've gotten over it by drinking a bottle of whiskey, but once you sober up you're still terrified of everything. Hence you're treating your body like it will never die. I think I have gotten better, just from touring so much, but I still definitely have the skittish nature.

  Lydia Loveless

  Drinking, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Chris Hillman (of the Byrds) recounts...'What happened to the Buffulo Springfield at the Whisky was similar to what happened to us at Ciro's...everybody wanted to be there. It became the place to be...a great gig.'

  Johnny Rogan

  Gigs, Whisky, Wanted

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• I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!

  B. B. King

  Kings, Cutting, Guitar

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• International correspondents with their long dictaphones, and dirty jeans, and five hundred words before whiskey, are slouched over the red velvet chairs, in the VIP section in the front, looking for the Story: the Most Macheteing Deathest, Most Treasury Corruptest, Most Entrail-Eating Civil Warest, Most Crocodile-Grinning Dictatorest, MOst Heart-Wrenching and Genociding Pulitzerest, Most Black Big-Eyed Oxfam Child Starvingest, Most Wild African Savages Having AIDS-Ridden Sexest with Genetically Mutilatedest Girls...The Most Authentic Real Black Africanest story they can find.

  Binyavanga Wainaina

  Girl, Children, Real

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• I learned you can't drink whiskey and play golf.

  John Daly

  Golf, Play, Drink

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• When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Dog, Glasses

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• Y'all drinking whiskey is probably a gregarious act. When you're not an alcoholic it's pretty fun to drink whiskey. But when you are it's a very solo ritual. It's not gregarious at all. But vice has always informed country music and all music.

  Ketch Secor

  Country, Fun, Drinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on

  Charles Bukowski

  Wine, Blood, Light

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.60, Canongate Books

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• I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.

  John Cheever

  Hands, Numbers, Bars

  John Cheever (2011). “The Journals”, p.112, Random House

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• We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.

  Gary Allan

  Guitar, Feds, Barbecue

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• Jules says there are three things that make you a grown-up: an eight-piece set of matching dishes; gin, vodka and whiskey in the house; and making your bed every morning. I disagree with her. I think you're officially a grown-up when you've got another half. When you don't have to live in fear of other couples. When you don't have to feel you're not good enough.

  Jane Green

  Morning, Couple, Thinking

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• Awesome! I'd just bullied Jesus into doing a shot with me. Nobody would ever believe it, but I didn't care. We ordered the insanely expensive stuff, seventy-five dollars for a 1.75-ounce pour of premium Irish whiskey, because if you're doing a shot with Jesus, you don't buy him scotch.

  Kevin Hearne

  Jesus, Believe, Scotch

  Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hammered (with bonus short story): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Three”, p.116, Del Rey

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• Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey," may be a fact but it is not a truth.

  William S. Burroughs

  Simple, May, Facts

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• Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for real. It's like bad whiskey. Run through you fast and leave you with pain.

  Dorothy Allison

  Running, Pain, Nice

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• When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Pain, Men

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• You see a guy with one leg, he's got a story. "Land mine '69." You see a guy with one arm, he's got a story, too. "Snow blower, bottle of whiskey." You see a guy with one tooth, what would the story be? "Well, uh, I like a lot of taffy."

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Humor, Land

  "Comedy Central Presents: Dave Attell". Documentary, Comedy, 1999.

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• Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that is too grown-up for you. Like whiskey and voting, it is a dangerous and heady business, as heavy as years. If I could keep your little tribe together forever, I would. I do so want to be generous. But some stories sprout bright vines that tendril off beyond our sight, carrying the folk we love best with them, and if I knew how to accept that with grace, I would share the secret.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Ambition, Sadness, Sight

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• An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.

  Don Marquis

  Reform, Stomach, Resolve

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.563, Doubleday

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• Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne's a heavy mist before my eyes.

  James Stewart

  Eye, Scotch, Stuff

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• I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Beer, Wish, Citizens

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