Cotton Quotes - Page 2

See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.... Ain't nobody now can play the blues that I play.

Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.

Summertime And the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.

There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.

That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.

I'm a cotton-headed ninny muggins.

Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

Dean Martin's great-great-uncle, Ebenezer Martin, who said to Eli Whitney, I see the cotton, but where's the gin? Never got a dinner!

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.

Her bra was cotton and white and, bless its little frickin´ heart, had a front clasp.

I am a huge fan of big cotton underpants; they're comfortable. I wear them every day.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

Seth was a wonderful kisser. He gave the kind of kisses that melted into your mouth and filled you with sweetness. They were like cotton candy.

I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.

I feel best in soft and natural materials such as cotton and silk. I wear collections from all designers. They all have outstanding cuts and extremely pleasant materials.

I did [picking cotton] from - until I was 18 years old, that is. Then I picked the guitar, and I've been picking it since.

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?