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Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.
— Levon Helm
I want to dream a dream so wonderful that I'll wake up sorry that it wasn't a memory.
— Robin M. Helm
Most of us have a soundtrack running in the background of our lives. I access that soundtrack when I write.
— Robin M. Helm
Toronto is hard to capture in a few strokes.
— Michael Helm
You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.
— Levon Helm
Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.
— Levon Helm
Viv Anderson has pissed a fatness test.
— John Helm
It's maddening; he's like an obnoxious seven-year-old that someone has installed at the helm of a vast international conspiracy.
— Ben H. Winters
Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.
— Michael Helm
He's been on vacation for a year and month. Captain Kirk never left the helm when the Enterprise was under attack.
— Eddie Griffin
Don't we all want what's best for each other?
— Levon Helm
Drums usually seem to tune themselves.
— Levon Helm
A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.
— Levon Helm
Keep your hand on the helm.
— Matthew Goldman
If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.
— Levon Helm
The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did.
— Levon Helm
Good times don't last long sometimes.
— Levon Helm
Use that ugly thing you keep inside your helm.
— George R R Martin
My job is defending the people and to hell with the laws. Your job is defending the laws and to hell with the people.
— Donald Hamilton
We live in an age of miracles.
— Levon Helm
I have no talents but reading. I
— Michael Helm
Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.
— Levon Helm
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
— Henry Adams
After I was old enough to work, they'd have to make three pies: one for each family and one for Lavon. And I'd guard mine.
— Levon Helm
When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.
— Levon Helm
If things are going slow, I'm itchy.
— Levon Helm
I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
— Laura Dekker
With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.
— Levon Helm
In fact, Harold had never once paid attention to his watch other than to find out the time. And, honestly, it drove his watch crazy.
— Zach Helm
No. We breathe. We pulse. We regenerate. Our hearts beat. Our mind create. Our souls ingest. 37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.
— Zach Helm
Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
— Levon Helm
Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?
— Emile Chartier
The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.
— Levon Helm
I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
— Levon Helm
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
— Publilius Syrus
When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.
— Levon Helm
Ensconced in our finite spaces,
We think we are at the helm of justice:
Degrading people's minutest of affairs. — Taranum
We think we are at the helm of justice:
Degrading people's minutest of affairs. — Taranum
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
— James Madison
I'd like to helm my own series. Something British.
— Benedict Wong
I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.
— Levon Helm
As rowdy as the place was, I've seen rowdier times playing fraternity parties in Oklahoma.
— Levon Helm
A sword's a sword, a helm's a helm, and if you reach in the fire you get burned, no matter who you're serving.
— George R R Martin
Chaos and barbarism, which always threatened to overwhelm the movement, sharply increased as bin Laden took the helm.
— Lawrence Wright
By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.
— Levon Helm
I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.
— Levon Helm
It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.
— James Madison
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I don't even know what bones I'm supposed to want to jump." "Only one, kiddo, and even you aren't that naive.
— Nicole Helm
When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.
— Joni Mitchell
To port the helm carries the head to port.
— Douglas Frazar
I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really nice to me and The Band.
— Levon Helm
I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.
— Levon Helm
Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.
— Joseph Barbera
My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.
— Levon Helm
The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.
— Levon Helm
This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.
— John Helm
Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.
— Levon Helm
She was a wind on the ocean. She moved men, but the helm determined the port.
— Zora Neale Hurston
It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.
— Sarah Palin
I've always thought it was easier for girls to sing harmonies because their voices can go to that higher plane so much more easy than a male voice.
— Levon Helm
The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.
— Levon Helm
Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.
— Levon Helm
He knows his olive trees better than he knows his children.
— Rebecca Helm-Ropelato