Bessie Smith Quotes
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Bessie Smith Quotes & Sayings
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I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.
— Bessie Smith
When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.
— Bessie Smith
It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.
— Bessie Smith
It's a long road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.
— Bessie Smith
If you're man enough to fuck someone, be man enough to take responsibility for the results.
— Suzanne Enoch
There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.
— Bessie Smith
No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.
— Bessie Smith
Movies cater to what the audiences want.
— Michelle Yeoh
Discretion prevented me from saying that I thought she was a fiend from the underworld and that mountain lions couldn't force me to enter her service.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Down Hearted Blues, by Bessie Smith. This is the song Ingersoll is singing to the baby
— Tom Franklin
Back Water Blues" by Bessie Smith. This is the one most closely associated with the 1927 flood,
— Tom Franklin
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.
— Bessie Smith
It might be better if we travel alone today,
— Erin Hunter
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
— Lucretius
Listen to my story and everything will come out true
— Bessie Smith
As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.
— Chang Chen-yue