It’s Me Again (Part 21)

September 23

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society. ~ Mark Twain

What they could do to make it easier is combine the two, real estate and obituaries: Mr. Klein died today leaving a wife, two children, and a spacious three-bedroom apartment with a wood-burning fireplace. ~ Billy Crystal

[Just wanted to let you know, it will be coming . . . ]

There’s nothing wrong with you that an expensive operation can’t prolong. ~ Graham Chapman

July 2

I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. ~ Steven Wright

[Sunday breakfast at the golf club . . . ]

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. ~ John Gunther

[To include watching golfers ascend the 9th hole . . . ]

Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. ~ Lewis Carroll

Every morning, I would actually look at the obituaries before I had breakfast. And as a joke I said if I was not in it, I would have the breakfast. ~ Carl Reiner

The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months. ~ Eddie Van Halen

[In the afternoon, internationally-renowned Julie Patchouli and Bruce Hecksel at Carlos Creek Winery . . . ]

Guitars are like women. You’ll never get them totally right. ~ Slash

I wish they’d had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would’ve been straightened out. ~ Jimi Hendrix

Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They’re cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small. ~ Kurt Cobain

I can’t take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars. ~ Gene Ween

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles. ~ Buddy Guy

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I’ve always preferred playing through an amplifier. ~ Daisy Berkowitz

I love to collect guitars made in the 1950s. I like preserving and playing them. ~ Joe Bonamassa

He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around. ~ Julian Lennon

Never follow anyone else’s path. Unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

[Major music aficionados, the family Trumm . . . ]

July 3

I like guitar. It just turned out that it’s the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I’m learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup – guitars, drums, bass – will stay fresh forever. I don’t know. I’m still into it. ~ Mac DeMarco

[Anthony Miltich at Lure Lakebar, fronting for Lake Le Homme Dieu . . . ]

I’m not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I’m not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you’ve got a style, you’re going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play. ~ Dan Auerbach

[The Super enjoying an afternoon snack and beverage . . . ]

And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West’s stuff. ~ Willie Nelson

I’ve had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars. ~ Andres Segovia

I’m not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars. ~ Mark Knopfler

I’ve always been into guitars… we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don’t look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John. ~ Noel Gallagher

July 4

Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist—while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist! ~ Lori Greiner

[A beautiful morning for the nation’s birthday . . . ]

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. ~ Benjamin Franklin

I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort. ~ Zach Galifianakis

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. ~ Oscar Wilde

I have the same goal I’ve had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world. ~ Madonna

You know you are in love when the two of you can go grocery shopping together. ~ Woody Harrelson

July 5

Simien is a two-time Grammy-winning Zydeco artist with a 34-year road warrior history of playing more than 7000 shows in 40 different countries. He’s an eighth generation Creole who settled in Mallet, just north of Lafayette area of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana and is a standard bearer for the Creole heritage called “one of the most pervasive yet overlooked cultures on the planet” by Kreol Magazine. ~ Dan Wilcox

[The beginning of back-to-back great shows . . . ]

Many have never heard of the Creoles, a name for a hybrid of Spanish, French, African, and native American cultures, but they consist of 15 million people in the southern swamps of Louisiana, Caribbean Islands, island nations of Seychelles and Mauritius in Indian Ocean. ~ Dan Wilcox

Zydeco is the energetic music of the Creoles. Simien quotes venerated musicologist Alan Lomax as saying that pre-Zydeco music called jure recorded in the 1920s was “the most African sounding music he heard in the country.” ~ Dan Wilcox

He’s a person that’s always there for everybody. If you got a benefit dinner, Terrance is there. It’s not about the money for Terrance. He’s always showing up and saying, hey, what can I do to help somebody. ~ Rockin’ Dopsie, Jr.

Mr. Terrence has been in the music industry for so long, and it’s opened many pathways for artists like myself. It’s very heartbreaking to hear of something of that nature. ~ Lil’ Nate

Legend has it that the word zydeco originated in the lyrics of Les Haricots Sont Pas Salés, a popular Cajun dance tune. Loosely translated, the song’s title means “the beans are not salty,” and when spoken in French Creole, les haricots (French for beans) sounds something like “zydeco.” “Zydeco” first appeared in print in 1960 and has been used to describe this kind of music ever since. ~ Mirriam-Webster

Simien is a Zydeco master: his voice yearning like Sam Cooke, he delivers soul worthy of Stax greats and shows crossover class. ~ Rolling Stone

An alluring zydeco talent. ~ Village Voice

You know it’s been a great night when, at the end, your smile muscles are just as tired as your dance muscles. ~ Philadelphia Inquirer

[A wonderful night, the group was glorious . . . ]

July 7

So remember when you tell those little white lies that the night has a thousand eyes. ~ Bobby Vee

[Following Terrance Simien with the Killer Vees remembering Bobby Vee – can’t get much better . . . ]

Come back when you grow up girl, you’re still living in a paper doll world. ~ Bobby Vee

I’m one stomach flu away from my goal weight. ~ Emily Blunt

[One of the few nights of rain this summer. We waited it out in the car . . . ]

Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar. ~ Leif Garrett

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star. ~ Elton John

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’. ~ John Lennon

[Theatre executive director Nicole Mulder announces the show . . . ]

Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen. ~ Little Richard

I don’t know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer. ~ Robert Plant

Should the Moody Blues [and Bobby Vee ~ Editor] be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? That’s absurd. Of course they should be. ~ Steve Miller

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived. ~ David Cassidy

[Matt Velline, lead vocal, is Bobby’s Nephew; Tommy, on bass, is Bobby’s son; and lead guitar on the right is Bobby’s grandson . . . ]

Rock and roll music – the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. ~ Salman Rushdie

All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. ~ Janis Joplin

Rosa Parks is rock and roll. ~ Yungblud

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer’s main motivation is to become friends with the band. They’re not really journalists; they’re people who want to be involved in rock and roll. ~ Chuck Klosterman

[Matt and Julie’s son Will on drums. We’ve watched Will from an early age when the family lived in Alex . . . ]

For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz and you mix it together, and that’s my basic makeup. ~ Steve Miller

[Will solos . . . ]

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music. ~ Aretha Franklin

I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you’re in, the harder you can rock. ~ Clarence Clemons

Mickey’ is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a one-hit wonder. ~ Toni Basil

Some people come to our shows and think they’re gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they’re pretty much surprised cause we do a lot of rock and roll. ~ Bobby Hatfield

July 8

Australia is filled with roundabouts and everyone drives on the wrong side of the road. In the end we decided to split up the work and I feverishly watched the GPS and yelled, “Left! Right! ROUNDABOUT! ~ Jenny Lawson

[The Roundabout is ready!]

Until you’ve learned to drive, you’ve never really learned how to swear. ~ Robert Paul

[The Saturday morning it opened I had to give it a go on my way to get doughnuts . . . ]

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. ~ Dudley Moore

That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything. ~ John Green

My therapist says I’m afraid of success. I guess I could understand that, because after all, fulfilling my potential would really cut into my sitting-around time. ~ Maria Bamford

[This is not a roundabout. It’s a new parking lot on Pilgrim Point . . . ]

Trying is the first step toward failure. ~ Homer Simpson

[I’ve lived here since before Big Ole, but I’d never been on Pilgrim Point before. Jutting out into beautiful Lake Ida about halfway up the eastern shore, it shows off the beauty of an acclaimed lake . . . ]

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it. ~ Mindy Kaling

[Looking north, so you’re just seeing half the lake . . . ]

Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished. ~ Leslie Nielsen

[Looking south, beautiful sandy bottom on both sides of the point . . . ]

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring: ‘How to Build a Boat.’ ~ Steven Wright

A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain. ~ Graham Norton

I’m not insane. My mother had me tested. ~ Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons)

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney and Driving Miss Daisy. ~ Goldie Hawn

Up Next: Yup, still more catching up . . .