I.B. George Quotes

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.

The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.

Occupation is the armor of the soul.

You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.

I remember old Elvis when he forgot to remember to forget.

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.

I should have checked the price tag before I gave them my last name.

I've had great fans, and they've been so loyal over the years.

I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.

Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

I wish I could be the guy who did the right thing at every time but unfortunately, that's not the case.

My first goal was to get a job . And I did that. And I think I've just been fortunate to be surrounded by good people who believed in me as much as I believe in myself.

We're Hollywood, it's no big deal to see movie stars, TV stars, whatever. But if I go outside of LA, that's when people freak out.

In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely.

The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.

I started boxing late but I've always been a fighter all my life.

Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that's what's going to keep us moving ahead.

What's needed today, now, more than ever, is 'Star Peace' for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It's called 'Twilight'. And it is really, really bad.

I'm a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.

We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.

Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any attempt by the government to turn that tragedy into justification for sweeping action.

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

Foreign nations have begun to include information warfare in their war college curricula with respect to both defensive and offensive applications.

Never break faith with the truth.

You deserve better from your entire government, all of us.

I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.

Everybody funny, now you funny too.

You know when your mouth a-getting dry You're plenty high.

Rock music is stronger than sports. That's why. Rock rules. Around the world, who's more famous: Willie Mays or Paul McCartney?

I am more of a rock guy than I am a blues guy. People get the idea that I am a dyed in the wool blues cat, but I rock out when I do my show you know that.

As you get older the odds are against you that you are still going to be on the planet.

When I walk the streets, kings and queens step aside, every woman I meet, they all stay satisfied.

There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.

[European audiences differ from American] they talk different. The ones in Holland speak Dutch. The ones in Switzerland speak Swiss. That's the only difference.

I love Willy DeVille. He's very missed.

Pain I keep to myself; my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.

I'm a [Bob] Dylan freak, like everybody else.

I love Hank Williams. Who doesn't love Hank Williams? So my choices are not that surprising.

I'm a big Marty Robbins fan. I love Marty Robbins. Of course, everybody does. That's not such a big shock.

How would you define [Bob] Dylan? You can't. That's a true artist. How about Ray Charles? Can you classify Ray Charles? No, you can't. He's just great, period.

I figured if you want to get to where John Hammond is or Billy Gibbons is or Peter Wolf is, you have to start listening to the same stuff they did, and learn from that, and that's what I did.

Every time you go in and make a record it is like a calling card, not so people can come and hear you live or are interested in your catalog.

I mean, you could have said Elvis Presley was new wave when it happened. I heard Willy DeVille and Tom Petty and to me they were new wave really because they were new.

I swore under oath with the government not to give the whereabouts of my location.

Most of the time when we do a tune, Bad Blake, it's a tune no one's heard of to begin with.

Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.