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I love harmonicas - old blues players like Sonny Boy Williamson.
Ian Brown / Musician
Blues
Sonny
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My little boy Sonny makes me laugh all the time. He has good comedic timing.
Sophie Ellis Bextor / Singer
Boys
Laughing
Littles
Timing
Time Good Me
Sonny
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Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.
Ray Davies / Musician
Country
Rhythm
Rhythm And Blues
Blues
Repertoire
Sonny
Terry
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I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.
Brownie Mcghee / Singer
Blind
Died
Streets
Everybody Else
Fuller
Sonny
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Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.
George Foreman / Professional Boxer
Done
Giving
Made
Since
Ground
Sonny
Stood
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If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.
Muhammad Ali / Professional Boxer
Hurt
Seconds
Round
Gate
Minute
Sonny
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Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
Lemmy /
Slim
Love People Know
Boy
Oh
Blues
Listened
Sonny
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The bottom line is, between Sonny Osborne and Earl Scruggs, I better know how to play banjo. I had the greatest teachers in the world.
Hank Williams, Jr. / Singer-Songwriter
Bottom Line
World Better Know
Banjo
Earl
Sonny
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Once I beat Gervonta Davis like I've been calling it, that's going to be like history repeats itself with Sonny Liston and Muhammad Ali.
Ryan Garcia /
History Repeats Itself
Muhammad
Repeats
Davis
Ali
Sonny
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The project that I did between 'Boxer & Saints' was 'The Shadow Hero,' which is illustrated by Sonny Liew, an artist who lives in Singapore.
Gene Luen Yang / Writer
Hero
Shadow
Singapore
Boxer
Project
Illustrated
Saints
Sonny
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Isaac Smith sounded like Curtis Fuller, Corey Hogan sounded like Sonny Rollins, Terrace Martin sounded like Jackie McLean. Already, at 13, 14, 15 years old.
Kamasi Washington /
Isaac
Jackie
Terrace
Corey
Fuller
Smith
Sonny
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One of my major goals off the field is to conduct myself in a way that... parents are proud to say, 'Oh yeah, look, he wants to be like Sonny Bill Williams.'
Sonny Bill Williams /
Myself Look Goals
Oh Yeah
Sonny
Williams
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I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.
Brownie Mcghee / Singer
New York
Streets
Survived
Ukulele
Years
Street New Back
Sonny
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From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto.
Brownie Mcghee / Singer
Records
Time Me First
Makin
Singin
Sonny
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Grover Washington was my main influence, and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
College
Coltrane
Influence
Jazz
Masters
Washington
John
Main
Sonny
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Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.
Kenny G / Saxophonist
College
Coltrane
Influence
Jazz
Listening
Masters
Washington
John
Main
Sonny
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Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
Muhammad Ali / Professional Boxer
Men
Boxing
Fall
Fighting
Lessons
Needs
Talking
Man Fight Me
Talk
Since
Fight
Falling
Gonna
Fight Man Me
Man Needs
Sonny
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I'd actually love to play Sonny in 'Dog Day Afternoon' now that it's being adapted for Broadway. People don't talk about that movie that much, but it's really a beautiful gay love story.
Max Greenfield / Actor
Adapted
Afternoon
Broadway
Love Story
Love Beautiful Day
Sonny
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I'd gone to watch Wortley play in their home tournament but they didn't have enough players so I played for them. I got scouted by a guy called Sonny Sweeney and went to Leeds City Boys.
Kalvin Phillips /
Leeds
Sonny
Tournament
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My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your parents or at school, whatever, Sonny Liston would go and knock guys out, and that made it all right.
August Wilson / Playwright
Hero
Sonny
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Tuppence was what my grandmother nicknamed my mother, so she gave it to me. My sister is called Angel, and my brother was going to be called Bubba or Sonny, until they let me and my sister name him Josh.
Tuppence Middleton /
Sister
Josh
Sonny
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I'll never forget the first concert I basically went to. Actually, Sonny and Cher was my first concert, but U2 was my first real concert. I was 17 and saw them at JFK Stadium and had really crappy seats.
Ed Kowalczyk /
Never Forget
Seats
Concert
Crappy
Jfk
Sonny
Stadium
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Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos.
Chuck Zito / Actor
Famous
Angel
Oakland
Tattoo
Headed
Hells
Local
Meeting
One Percent
Shop
Patch
Sonny
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I've played with some great players and against some great players, and Sonny is special, he's so humble and I think that you underestimate that because of the work he puts in, then his quality, outstanding left foot, right foot.
Jan Vertonghen /
Outstanding
Underestimate
Foot
Puts
Sonny
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They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.
Ike Turner / Musician
Boys
Drink
Paid
Used
Indians
Sonny
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'Donnie Brasco' was 85 percent on the money. The only thing that they slanted was my feelings for Lefty and Sonny', and this idea that I didn't want to go through with seeing them in jail. I was never swayed. There was no conflict.
Joseph D. Pistone /
Conflict
Jail
Percent
Seeing
Lefty
Slanted
Sonny
Swayed
The Only Thing
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My mom said to me: 'Sonny, you need to study English.' And I replied to her: 'Mom, I do not need it. I'm going to be horse-boy, would I speak English with horses?' Mom said: 'Darling, you need to.' But I did not listen to my mother.
Oleksandr Usyk /
Mom
Darling
Speak
Study
English
Mom Me Mother
Horses
Replied
Sonny
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I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated.
Eric Clapton / Musician
Chuck
Geography
Hearing
Music Culture Me
Berry
Bill
Sonny
Terry
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I first met Miles Davis about 1947 and played a few jobs with him and Sonny Rollins at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. During this period, he was coming into his own, and I could see him extending the boundaries of jazz even further.
John Coltrane / Saxophonist
Jobs
Ballroom
Boundaries
Extending
Jazz
Manhattan
Miles
Davis
Played
Coming
Period
Few
Further
Him
Met
Sonny
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I've never really been serious about my villainy. I don't have a master plan. I suppose my philosophy is: Every villain has a mother. For every cold-blooded killer on your screen, there's a little old lady somewhere who calls him 'sonny.'
Anthony Zerbe /
Old Lady
Villain
Villainy
Calls
Master
Lady
Suppose
Master Plan
Screen
Sonny
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For every moment of triumph, there is an unequal and opposite feeling of despair. Take that iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali standing triumphantly over the prostrate, semiconscious wreckage of Sonny Liston. Great photo. Now think of Liston. Do the pleasure/pain calculus.
Charles Krauthammer / Columnist
Calculus
Despair
Iconic
Muhammad
Triumph
Wreckage
Ali
Photo
Sonny
Unequal
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I was making a film on Muhammad Ali in 1964, and I went to Miami to film everything around the fight for the world championship with Sonny Liston. I had the good luck of flying down to Miami, and there was one empty seat, and the guy sitting next to this empty seat was Malcolm X.
William Klein / Photographer
Championship
Empty
Flying
Good Luck
Luck
Miami
Muhammad
Ali
Good World Fight
Seat
Good Fight World
Malcolm
Sonny
World Championship
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The best compliment came from Knopf's Sonny Mehta. We were at lunch in New York with my editor, Gary Fisketjon, it was my first time meeting Sonny, and after ordering our food, he turned to me and said, 'Adam, I read 'Mr. Peanut' in two days; every page surprised me, and that, I can assure you, doesn't happen often.'
Adam Ross / Novelist
Adam
Compliment
Gary
Lunch
Time Best Food
Assure
Mr
Best Time Food
Editor
Meeting
Ordering
Page
Peanut
Sonny
Surprised
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I grew up in the age of variety shows. 'Flip Wilson,' 'Carol Burnett,' 'Donny and Marie,' and 'Sonny and Cher' - I never missed an episode. These shows had it all: singing, dancing, and sketch comedy. One minute, they're ice-skating with pyrotechnics, the next they're doing a scene on a gigantic set. I just couldn't get enough.
Wendi Mclendon-Covey / Film Actress
Flip
Marie
One Minute
Sketch Comedy
Variety
Wilson
Burnett
Carol
Carol Burnett
Episode
Gigantic
Missed
Sketch
Sonny
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