Origin Quotes

“I was a magician. I did street magic.”

“The briar-patch is where I was born and bred, Brer Fox.”

“I'm a farm girl. I'm a Kansas girl.”

“If you're looking for the Twist, I'm the man that started it all.”

“I'm just a girl from a small town in Illinois who had a dream.”

“I started in the streets, and I know it's a hustle. But I'm a legit guy.”

“Home-made, home-made! But aren't we all?”

“In the year 1913, trying desperately to free art from the dead weight of the real world, I took refuge in the form of the square.”

“I'm just a guy from Dublin who lucked out.”

“The last unicorn wasn't born in a magic forest... she was born in a zoo.”

“I'm a New Yorker. I'm a product of the city. I'm a product of the streets.”

“Organic life beneath the shoreless waves/ Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves.”

“I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.”

“I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language... I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language.”

“The blues came from nothingness, from want, from desire.”

“In the beginning, we were just kids having fun, making games we wanted to play.”

“Modeling was a way for me to get out of Houston.”

“The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.”

“We were four blokes from a very poor background in a city that was very industrial, and we were just trying to get away from the factory life.”

“We started off calling ourselves Earth. It was a blues band.”