Bobby Womack quote: "You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, straight away. Now everyone sounds like each other, and I don't think that's right."

You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ...
BOBBY WOMACK

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.
BOBBY WOMACK

Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to...
BOBBY WOMACK

Leave them wanting more and you know they'll call you back.
BOBBY WOMACK

It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours an...
BOBBY WOMACK

I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.
BOBBY WOMACK

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.
BOBBY WOMACK

I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt ...
BOBBY WOMACK

Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodie...
BOBBY WOMACK

You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Lif...
BOBBY WOMACK

I met a zillion people through Ronnie Wood. He's been my friend since he was in The Faces, and h...
BOBBY WOMACK

I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day go...
BOBBY WOMACK

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you...
JAMES WOMACK

Always remember the answers come not from the rock, the teacup, the shell, or the cards. The answers...
GWENDOLYN WOMACK

Divination is a mirror, reflecting what is here and here,” Kezia would tell her, pointing to Netti...
GWENDOLYN WOMACK

To divine is to imagine the world rightly, to see past the illusion that we are separate from the en...
GWENDOLYN WOMACK

Walk-in box, $2,200 to fix it. Ice maker cannot be repaired. It's too old. There are no parts for it...
BILL WOMACK

It's a pretty big thing for us. I can't remember the last time we swept them.
BILL WOMACK

All weekend long the kids did a good job putting the ball in play and letting things happen. (Cortez...
BILL WOMACK

Grand Junction is just a solid team and they are a tough team to face, but we still have to come out...
BILL WOMACK

We kept hitting the ball like we have been and we made them make plays. We like the fact we've score...
BILL WOMACK

Our left side should be really solid and we should be strong up the middle.
BILL WOMACK

Historically we haven't done well on that road trip. It will be a tough road trip for us and we just...
BILL WOMACK

We battled them the whole way. We played well, they played well, unfortunately we came up a few runs...
BILL WOMACK

Between the two of them we threw a heck of a game.
BILL WOMACK

They had numerous unearned runs. That's not to say that they didn't hit the ball, but we needed to m...
BILL WOMACK

This is truly a desperate situation.
JAMES WOMACK

that defined torture and showed that these acts were not torture and that these prisoners were not s...
GUY WOMACK

We knew it'd be enough to win, but you don't want to just win, you want to make sure you can keep th...
ASHLEY WOMACK

We were having a problem not getting runners around when we got base runners on. But we came around.
ASHLEY WOMACK

We've always cheered since Sweeties (youth league), it's just going to carry on. We say, 'Stay up th...
ASHLEY WOMACK

Living might mean taking chances but they're worth taking, Loving might be a mistake but it's worth ...
LEANNE WOMACK

We received some final documents and paperwork that made him eligible. We now have everything that w...
JANET WOMACK

There's a whirlpool developing with a drain down at the bottom, and no one is sure where it goes. It...
JAMES WOMACK

I think people just need to grow up a little bit and start taking responsibility for themselves and ...
JAMES WOMACK

If there's anything going on in a particular bar and it's not the atmosphere I want or be in, I have...
JAMES WOMACK

It makes perfect sense, but I think people should be free to choose.
JAMES WOMACK

I can wait three months, but I meant three months.
JAMES WOMACK

Even with those advances most manufacturers are not making a great deal of money and customers aren'...
JAMES WOMACK

Toyota is the biggest worrier on the planet.
JAMES WOMACK

It's why I joined the Coast Guard, to do things like this to help people.
JAMES WOMACK

I thought all four pitchers did a good job. Even Quentin, he kept us in the game.
BILL WOMACK

We played well in all four games.
BILL WOMACK

Our kids played great. We're just really happy with the way everything went.
BILL WOMACK

I'm really happy overall. Seeing someone else (for the first time) I think we did a good job.
BILL WOMACK

The kids did a great job in the final inning playing with the distraction.
BILL WOMACK

There's not one threat. I think a lot of people will get it done for us.
BILL WOMACK

He kind of gets everybody going.
BILL WOMACK

There are no easy games in our league (but) I look for us to be in the upper half near the top. We'l...
BILL WOMACK

We're excited to start our season and we want to continue the (winning) trend that's been happening ...
BILL WOMACK

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the "right stuff" to turn o...
JAMES WOMACK

Bryant Thompson shaves his arms before the games he pitches.
ERIC WOMACK

Tests. Tests always ruin the karma of game day. You're thinking more about the game than the test an...
ERIC WOMACK

We were granted one of them. A major. He was standing outside the courtroom with his granted immunit...
GUY WOMACK

I try to wear the same uniform when I am pitching.
ERIC WOMACK

following orders [they] believed to be lawful.
GUY WOMACK

They're not allowing him to leave the base to see his family. They're telling him it's for his own p...
GUY WOMACK

He's thrilled to be home. Of course, home is Pennsylvania, but he's just glad to be back in the U.S.
GUY WOMACK

We had requested a number of intelligence officers be granted immunity so they could come in and tes...
GUY WOMACK

His morale is high,
GUY WOMACK

He's very proud of his service in the Army. He's very proud of his service in the war on terrorism a...
GUY WOMACK

The photo we presented is proof of what we've been saying because it shows military intelligence and...
GUY WOMACK

It was done creatively -- mission accomplished,
GUY WOMACK

It's just of process of making sure that they are eligible, so that if someone does question an athl...
JANET WOMACK

We are still working on that. We are keeping in touch with the athletes and their parents and trying...
JANET WOMACK

These people, they've been around there since Saturday, around the clock, ... We're going to look at...
JACK WOMACK

This compares to absolutely nothing that we've ever done before, and we've been here 20 years, ... I...
JACK WOMACK

This one is a marathon. It's going to go for a long time,
JACK WOMACK

The situation changes hourly,
JACK WOMACK

[Trauma is] a huge issue, ... We know what they're seeing, and when they come out of the field, we w...
JACK WOMACK

We try to look and be very respectful and careful about that.
JACK WOMACK

People want to see what lessons the government learned and the response that is going to be made,
JACK WOMACK

We're moving chess pieces all over the place, ... We're moving them so fast, it's hard to keep track...
JACK WOMACK

Clearly, this is the most challenging story we've ever had to manage, at least in the United States.
JACK WOMACK

There's been an enormous commitment of resources. You're right, it's a lot of money. But (cover the ...
JACK WOMACK

Like the nation, things were booming. Now some of the little communities that were here aren't here ...
LYNN WOMACK

Kids got a high school diploma out of 8th grade.
LYNN WOMACK

And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls,...
LEE ANN WOMACK

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to ...
LEE ANN WOMACK

I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming,...
LEE ANN WOMACK

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.
LEE ANN WOMACK

It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going ...
LEE ANN WOMACK

I'm the most low-maintenance person on the road.
LEE ANN WOMACK

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it ...
LEE ANN WOMACK

If you are listening to music that doesn't touch you, that doesn't mean anything to you, tune into y...
LEE ANN WOMACK

With a stroke of the pen, they have changed my life forever.
LEE ANN WOMACK

[Her seventh and current album,] There's More Where That Came From, ... I May Hate Myself In The Mor...
LEE ANN WOMACK

Again, most of my favorite bands are playing the show so it's going to be good for me. Just like alw...
LEE ANN WOMACK

Good News, Bad News,
LEE ANN WOMACK

Oh my God, I love country music!
LEE ANN WOMACK

But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.
LEE ANN WOMACK

Sometimes I think we are scared of real country music but a message like what was in that song, that...
LEE ANN WOMACK

Maybe, I want her to do anything she wants, but I hope her interest in singing stays high.
LEE ANN WOMACK

I wonder what that must feel like, to have written a true classic that's been covered by so many peo...
LEE ANN WOMACK

And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms ...
LEE ANN WOMACK

A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of T...
LEE ANN WOMACK

I thought it would be nice if I got one or two. Everything after that was just icing on the cake.
LEE ANN WOMACK

I'll Never Be Free,
LEE ANN WOMACK

I'm not afraid to go out on a limb, style-wise or with lyrics. I don't ever want to be afraid to cut...
LEE ANN WOMACK

I Hope You Dance,
LEE ANN WOMACK

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
BOBBY KNIGHT

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
BOBBY KNIGHT

There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't...
BOBBY FISCHER

My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that al...
BOBBY FLAY

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work ...
BOBBY SCOTT

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
BOBBY SANDS

I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. We...
BOBBY KNIGHT

The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college cam...
BOBBY SEALE

If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.
BOBBY RIGGS

When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller.
BOBBY LOCKE

Second guesses in putting are fatal.
BOBBY LOCKE

The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.
BOBBY LOCKE

You drive for show but putt for dough.
BOBBY LOCKE

You can tell a good putt by the noise it makes.
BOBBY LOCKE

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that n...
BOBBY DARIN

The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And wha...
BOBBY SEALE

Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homes...
BOBBY FLAY

Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they'...
BOBBY FARRELLY

Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing...
BOBBY FLAY

People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's...
BOBBY BOWDEN

If a British government experienced such a long and persistent resistance to domestic policy in Engl...
BOBBY SANDS

I don't want to look like a bum.
BOBBY FISCHER

I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They're incredibly popular. But everybod...
BOBBY FLAY

I'm going to have to call up Spike Lee. I did a cameo for him in 'Malcolm X,' and I'...
BOBBY SEALE

When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie int...
BOBBY FLAY

Our workers, our American people who are already struggling, are going to continue to struggle until...
BOBBY SCHILLING

Everybody says, 'I have problems overcooking steak on the grill,' but just take it off earli...
BOBBY FLAY

Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business part...
BOBBY FLAY

The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the S...
BOBBY SCOTT

If we want the best pitcher, let's get Bobby Feller. If want the best football player, let's...
BOBBY KNIGHT

Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someon...
BOBBY FLAY

We were young political revolutionaries. [Then-California Gov.] Reagan said we hated white folk. Tha...
BOBBY SEALE

We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black ...
BOBBY SEALE

They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the progr...
BOBBY SEALE

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon ...
BOBBY SEALE

Seize the Time.
BOBBY SEALE

We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich an...
BOBBY SEALE

Our position was: "If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us,...
BOBBY SEALE

A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somew...
BOBBY SEALE

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
BOBBY SEALE

We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
BOBBY SEALE

I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob...
BOBBY WALLACE

And I just automatically said music. I hadn't really thought about it, but I thought, well I guess I...
BOBBY MCFERRIN

I've got one week left, and then I'm done for a year. I haven't had a sabbatical, I haven't taken a ...
BOBBY MCFERRIN

When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anyth...
BOBBY MCFERRIN

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.
BOBBY MCFERRIN

It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some yo...
BOBBY MCFERRIN

I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
BOBBY MCFERRIN

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.
BOBBY MCFERRIN

If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a momen...
BOBBY MCFERRIN

If I can delay that [pain] for a moment and bring a little joy. . . and help them to see things a li...
BOBBY MCFERRIN

Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to li...
BOBBY MCFERRIN

Not everything is funny or will make you laugh...but what a worthy goal to have.
BOBBY DARNELL

I never lost a game. I just ran our of time.
BOBBY LAYNE

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
BOBBY HULL

If you have to remind yourself to concentrate during competition, you've got no chance to concentrat...
BOBBY NICHOLS

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many y...
BOBBY JONES

Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a ...
BOBBY JONES

Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fa...
BOBBY LOCKE

Drive for show, but putt for dough.
BOBBY LOCKE

Forget about style; worry about results.
BOBBY ORR

Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installm...
BOBBY HULL

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
BOBBY CLARKE

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the perc...
BOBBY BRAGAN

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
BOBBY SEALE

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.
BOBBY MCFERRIN

If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well...
BOBBY KNIGHT

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHT

The key is not the "will to win" . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is ...
BOBBY KNIGHT

Everybody has an opportunity in America. I don't care if guys whine and complain about this or t...
BOBBY KNIGHT

And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls...
BOBBY SCOTT

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very a...
BOBBY FLAY

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend school...
BOBBY SCOTT

As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of...
BOBBY KNIGHT

I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won so...
BOBBY ORR

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
BOBBY UNSER

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, a...
BOBBY KNIGHT

I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like th...
BOBBY KNIGHT

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.
BOBBY SCOTT

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in m...
BOBBY SANDS

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential bas...
BOBBY SCOTT

Shopping in Thailand is super cheap and generally high quality. Bangkok is also safe. If you see any...
BOBBY LEE

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it...
BOBBY BOWDEN

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs ...
BOBBY VINTON

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidd...
BOBBY UNSER

I feel honesty always works.
BOBBY UNSER

Yellow usually means it's not that serious.
BOBBY UNSER

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
BOBBY KNIGHT

We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, li...
BOBBY JINDAL

On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terri...
BOBBY GHOSH

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER

The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.
BOBBY DAVRO

The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is impor...
BOBBY KNIGHT

I was 13 when I developed the classic symptoms of a person who gets diabetes: a lot of weight loss, ...
BOBBY CLARKE

My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at...
BOBBY MOYNIHAN

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHT

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I ...
BOBBY JINDAL

Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing ...
BOBBY JINDAL

India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we shoul...
BOBBY JINDAL

You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, straight away. Now everyone sounds like each other, and I don't think that's right.

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You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, straight away. Now everyone sounds like each other, and I don't think that's right.

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