H. W. Shaw Quotes
When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.
As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member
I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.
When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them
Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.
It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.
Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.
Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.
He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.
The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.
It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.
When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.
The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.