David Edwards Quotations

I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of love songs - 'Stardust', 'Blue Moon', 'Out Cold Again', 'Sophisticated Lady', 'Stars Fell On Alabama', a lot of different stuff.

You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere.

I don't care how famous a guitarist is, he ain't learned everything. There's always somewhere to go, something to mash up, but he ain't found it yet. You never learn everything on that guitar neck.

I'd probably sit around the house and get lonesome if I didn't have something to do.

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.

The turnaround is when you have a solo in betwixt the verses. You stoppin' to have a solo.

I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it.

The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?

You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don't - you're working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord.

Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.

I knew BB King when he first started out.

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.

When I was running 'round in America, about 30 years old, I didn't want no woman. I knowed I could make enough money to take care of myself, but I didn't want nobody to take care of.

I drive every day. I like to gamble.

I left home when I was 17 with Joe Williams.

I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.

I should have been dead 50, 60 years ago. God just wasn't ready for me. Because I used to raise hell and drink. I've had my fun!

My father had slowed down playing a little... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar down, I pick it up.

When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey.

You never learn everything on that guitar neck.

I ain't learn everything yet at 95. But I got good fingers, that's one thing, I got good fingers. If it weren't for them fingers I wouldn't be going now.

I didn't come out until 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening. Sleep all day, sleep and cook and eat, stay in the house. That sun is hot, anyway. It ain't right out there.

With their Q4 guidance, the growth rate probably wasn't as impressive as investors were expecting. But my expectation is that they'll have a real strong fourth quarter.

We need to make a decision that will raise the bar on standards without raising the bar on price. That's a difficult, difficult task.

So life was busy and good, and since we're very social people, Vickie and I enjoyed going out often, eating at good restaurants, plus we enjoyed entertaining, and I thought appetizers consisted of lard, flour and sugar,

I wouldn't expect them to buy something immediately. It was a good opportunity to raise capital. It was smart to do it in this time frame.

From a short-term perspective, the market is expecting reasonable growth for Yahoo! so that makes it a safer stock to buy today.

From the very first day there has been a tremendous amount of dissension and bad feeling.

I weigh now 162 pounds, a dramatic drop from the 250-plus pounds I weighed when I laid down on the surgeon's table, ... Since that surgery last year, I've been able not only to lose weight, but to quit taking all but one medication, down from the seven forms of meds I required daily to stay alive.

Spikes and stuff are what bog down the network,

My wife said 'have you seen this?' They wrote a book. I thought it was a joke.

It all looks good. Every metric is going in the right direction.

The ability to search video content could be an interesting application for media companies since they own the content. If they also own the search window, they can choose how to charge for it.

When at my heaviest, I wore 48-inch waist pants. I bought 32-inch slacks I'm planning on wearing this weekend at my son's graduation with the Marines.

The question is how much of a future upside is in the stock and business for 2006.

We don't know what kind of transport system will develop, but oil supply and pollution issues might cause the Chinese government to mandate fuel cells. That type of top-down government could create an immediate market. In the U.S. this would be more of a trickle.

We were living in student housing at MTSU at this time, ... Vickie was finishing her degree, and I totally dedicated myself to meal preparation and attending Weight Watchers meetings. I became a certified Weight Watcher instructor, and conducted numerous meetings. I had tremendous initial success, losing 70 pounds, from 220 down to 150.

Even if having integrated voice communication between buyers and sellers is a good thing, I'm not certain that eBay would need to acquire the capability.

Now, I'm down to 162 pounds, and have dropped from taking seven meds a day, down to one med, after blood pressure and cholesterol began dropping dramatically, and my body began producing insulin, thus reversing the insulin resistance and that problem too has been eliminated,

Dr. Bill Noah probably saved my life, for sleep apnea had killed famous football player Reggie White, and I was sleeping with a mask over my face, forcing air down my trachea, and I could not travel between the weight, the need to try to sleep in my recliner and my machine,

This is a way to get a block of shares at a single price and at a discount. People will buy into this when they want to buy into a big position.

The whisper number had gotten far ahead of the consensus and had increased over the last week or two,

They say their goal is to make the entire world's information universally accessible. It's easy to theorize about how they're going to make people around the world universally accessible, too.

There's a certain amount of pride in having a motorcycle that nobody else on the face of the Earth has.

As with anything, there's a saturation point. There are only so many people who want a $50,000 chopper.

It's all going to be about perceptions or misperceptions.

It makes sense that they did well in 2005; that's what everyone expected. The problem is the outlook for 2006.

That is the only substantive announcement they made today. I find it interesting that they held a big press conference to announce it. This kind of toolbar deal is in place with other downloads. There are other toolbar deals; they're always looking for ways to distribute their toolbar.

That is the only substantive announcement they made today, ... I find it interesting that they held a big press conference to announce it. This kind of toolbar deal is in place with other downloads. There are other toolbar deals; they're always looking for ways to distribute their toolbar.

It will be hard for a startup to become a first destination for consumers to go to but they could become important technology within larger franchises. As long as all the major search players develop or license good video search technology they will be the most popular places to go.

They've made good strides but haven't fully monetized other opportunities. The nature of a marketplace is that once you have a critical mass, it tends to stick, and there's not a lot that can unseat it. But that's not to say that eBay doesn't have significant challenges ahead.

They've made good strides but haven't fully monetized other opportunities, ... The nature of a marketplace is that once you have a critical mass, it tends to stick, and there's not a lot that can unseat it. But that's not to say that eBay doesn't have significant challenges ahead.

A rich media ad could be worth more to an advertiser than a text ad -- it tends to be longer, more engaging and you can make the case for your brand in a more compelling fashion.

In Italy, he's a god. And quite legitimately so -- he's the best ever to compete in his sport.

In 1978, when Vickie and I married, I weighed 190 pounds, but was on a never-ending yo-yo rollercoaster ride, ... My weight bloomed, with my wife's good cooking that included a particularly good-tasting meal of roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy and apple crumb pie ... a meal I've not had in a long time, but it was so good, I can still smell it in my memory.

In order for Google Talk to be successful, they're going to have to differentiate, and this is the logical direction.

I haven't even thought about that at this point.

I played with so many musicians and some of the musicians would have something I want. I steal a lot of them, and I mash it up, I mash it up into my chords.

I had decided to buy in on the complete good-eating-habit program, and after surgery, I began losing one-half pound to a pound per day,

The film observes these people in the course of their daily routines, and hears the stories they tell about their past and present lives and their concerns for the future. The film is about the ways in which foreigner and Afghan warily co-exist in the city, each relying on the other, but neither sure of the other's intentions.