Dan Hicks Quotes (37 Quotes)

People come up to him in the arena asking for skating times. He gives them without looking at any sheets.

A couple of the kids ran ahead of their parents and then returned back toward the waterfall away from the parking lot saying there was a bear between them and the parking lot.

There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.

When we pulled out on Wednesday, the military had pretty much taken over the area. There were even officers from NYPD and LAPD so the security was really tightening down.

There seem to be fans, a cross-section too, age-wise, people who dug it in the Seventies and people coming to see me for the first time. New fans.

We have not been able to talk to her. She may not remember the attack at all.

The bottom line is that Bear River changed its offense the second half of the season. They started planting Juric in the block. Earlier in the season when we beat them, she was floating around on the outside and we were thrilled. Now she plays down on the block and we didn't have an answer.

My parents were country western fans, and the regular station would have been country. In Junior High I started liking jazz swing and Benny Goodman.

I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing.

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.

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Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

The streak is not really that huge to us. What's a big deal is now we take the number one place in our league and we hold our number one spot in the power rankings.

We have officers in those areas. We are still trapping. We have to assume that we might not have the bear we want. Until we can positively identify that bear, we are going to assume we don't have it.

This is certainly not the kind of interview you're used to hearing from an Olympic gold medalist.

I reformed the Hot Licks, and in essence it was just adding girl singers for the first time in decades and hitting the road, playing out a lot with this six-piece band. The advice through the years had been to have girl singers with me again, so I did that.

That was a very good game. It was a good way to end a back-and-forth game. It was a fun high school basketball game.

I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.

I was only fond of the music up to a point. Rock and roll wasn't really my love.

The bear was still hovering over the top of her body.

That's an example of that confidence. That went over the line.

There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.

This is only the second documented case in the (modern) history of Tennessee where a bear has attacked a human. So, I mean, it's really, really rare.

We are leaning toward a predatory attack at this time, until we can find another reason.

I've worked with a number of researchers and there is only one Johan. Jansen said, 'You have to meet this guy.' He always shows up in flip-flops. And he has a skating encyclopedia for a brain.

I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.

It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?

At 19 or 20 in Junior College I had a friend who was strumming a guitar and getting into folk, and I wanted to do that too.

About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.

I think losing to us really got their attention.

Allegedly, after the rescue squad found the little girl, one of the squad members fired a shot from a small caliber handgun. We don't know whether the bear was hit or not. There was no blood, but it chased it off.

Acid was kind of a thing that was done on the day off. We took one trip, got in four or five cars and headed out to the lake, this Indian Burial Ground, we made some films, super 8, you can see us running around in the dark, stayed out all night, no sleeping bags, that didn't seem strange, just lay down on the ground to sleep, on acid.

I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.

My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.

And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites.