Jo Jones Quotes

Music is a way of life, it's everything. I play drums and that's what I believe I was born to do.

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

Don't listen to what people tell you, there are always doubters. Work hard, believe in yourself, and believe in your ability and just work hard.

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.

Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary.

My mother always told me that no matter how late it is, you take your makeup off. Take it off!

Reyes Farrow. Because perfection is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

That cotton trade was almost the deal breaker for me. It was at that point that I said, “Mr. Stupid, why risk everything on one trade? Why not make your life a pursuit of happiness rather than pain?

You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.

The test of your character is what it takes to stop you.

An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.

It's good to touch the green, green grass of home

So many things begin to change when you come at the world from that perspective of more than one right answer.

Believe in yourself. Believe in your heart and once you get there, don't slow down.

Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one's guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.

A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.

He who will not risk cannot win.

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.

If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

Celebrate the best in people. Find the light that shines not on us, but within us, when we trust enough to let it out.

I can do what I love or I can love what I do. Learn to love the task in front of you.

Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.

I will sit there on the air and look at every position and play devil's advocate.

Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who knows. That's science fiction and mere speculation.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

I totally should've gone to Hogwarts when I had the chance.

The Jew haters and white supremacists…all they do is fight with each other all day too.

You can't put this possum in a cage

Our perspective is what holds the key to whether the solution is ordinary or extraordinary.

If we start creating our own maps, our own world, our own vision, then there's no way for the cultural tyrants to program us. And, that's why they're pushing so hard to get more outrageous.

All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

If people think I'm angry, I don't want to burst anybody's bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it's not really anger; it's discipline.

It is wonderful when God saves a drunkard which He sometimes does, but it is more wonderful still when God saves little children before they become drunkards, libertines, and degenerates.

Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.

Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.

Home is where the heart is.

I love Tinkerbell because she's feisty and about it. She's got swag! She's going to do what she wants to do. I even have a Tinkerbell tattoo, and she is wearing Adidas flip-flops!

The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.

You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.

Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.

Can't be touched, Can't be stopped, Can't be moved, Can't be rocked, Can't be shook.

My inspiration is my hometown.

No nation has ever prospered or been blessed like the colored people in the South.