Memphis Quotes
Collection of top 51 famous quotes about Memphis
Memphis Quotes & Sayings
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Most guys my age have girlfriends and drinking buddies on their speed dial. Me, I have the Memphis CDC.
— Mira Grant
Big train from Memphis, now it's gone gone gone, gone gone gone. Like no one before, he let out a roar, and I just had to tag along.
— John Fogerty
I love Memphis. They've been good to me, the town and everything else. And quite frankly, I love the NBA and love being involved in it.
— Michael Heisley
I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.'
— Eve Hewson
When he's healthy, Zach Randolph for the Memphis Grizzlies has always been somebody that has always been very tough to play against.
— Kevin Love
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
Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started writing my own stuff.
— Bryan Hayes
I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.
— Justin Timberlake
The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
— Justin Timberlake
Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.
— Elvis Presley
Mississippi begins in the lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee, hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico.
— William Faulkner
The blues ain't nothin' but a botheration on your mind.
— Memphis Slim
When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.
— Valerie June
But it never touched me. Not until Memphis.
— Mira Grant
I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
— B.B. King
God chose Memphis as the place that I will continue my career.
— Allen Iverson
Memphis," I said softly and he opened his eyes to look at me. "You're safe," I whispered. Tears
— Sloane Kennedy
I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum jam every summer. I brought Memphis to Malibu.
— Linda Thompson
Besides, even at night, Memphis is going to be hotter than a billy goat's ass in a pepper patch.
— Annie England Noblin
Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.
— Muddy Waters
I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.
— Pinetop Perkins
She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him.
— Priscilla Presley
What's the Matter with the Mill?
— Memphis Minnie
Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American.
— Shawn Amos
Growing up in Memphis, I have always admired St. Jude's for the magnificent work they do.
— Ginnifer Goodwin
Memphis are a big part of who I am, but it's still just a part
— Matty Mullins
The beginning of the shows are different. One time we'll say 'Hello, Denver'. Another time we'll say 'Hello, Memphis'. It's always different.
— Lance Bass
Walking in Memphis, I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale. Walking in Memphis, but do I really feel the way I feel?
— Marc Cohn
When Lonnie Mack came out with the guitar instrumental "Memphis" I thought, Oh God, finally somebody we guitar players can relate to !
— Richard Betts
Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.
— Steve Cropper
Memphis and I both looked at Olaf, as if he'd spoken in tongues. I think neither of us had expected anything useful from the corpse fondling. Damn.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Life don't come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain't nobody handing it to us.
— Libba Bray
Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.
— Steve Cropper
Thus the husband is buried at Memphis and the wife in Koptos, yet the Ka of the wife goes to live in her husband's tomb
— H. Rider Haggard
The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.
— Bruce Springsteen
I love Motown, but I've obviously always been more of a Memphis soul fan. If it's Stax or Motown, I go Stax.
— Justin Townes Earle
I try to think about Elvis, Memphis, Oprah in the afternoon.
— Patty Loveless
No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?
— Will Rogers
I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
— Paul Simon
Life is an ear of buttered corn waiting to get stuck in your teeth.
— Truant D. Memphis