Quotes About Memphis

Memphis wasn't hot before Dolph came out.

I saw footage of Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley just hanging out together in Memphis when they were young guys getting started at Sun, listening to records together. That was beautiful to me.

It's easy to forget about the Memphis Grizzlies because, well, they play in Memphis.

I'm working on this documentary. It's called 'Walking Home With Baby,' and when I say 'Walking Home With Baby,' it's a hood in Memphis. This is where I come from. This is my hood in Memphis - the South of Memphis.

I like to go back to Memphis, where I started it. I might sit in the hood for three days just putting myself back there.

In Memphis we don't talk. We ball.

Memphis made me. I always say that. The experiences I had in that city and with those fans made me.

In Memphis I always had the ball.

I watched a lot of great players come through Memphis.

Well, my family used to live in Atlanta a few years back so I always had a good relationship with all the artists down there, as well as artists from Houston and Memphis, before the South took over, I was already like a family member of the South so there's always love.

I was in the ministry for some time. All my family is immersed in a black church in Memphis.

I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.

I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

Yeah, I actually went to college. I went to Southwest Community College in Memphis; I tried to go to TSU, and they denied me.

The Delta region of Mississippi is an expansive alluvial plain, shaped like the leaf of a pecan tree hanging lazily over the rest of the state. Stretching some 220 miles from Vicksburg to Memphis, it is bounded on the west by the Mississippi River, and extends eastward for an average of 65 miles, terminating in hill country, with its poorer soil and different ways of life, and the Yazoo River, which eventually joins the Mississippi at Vicksburg. For blues fans, this is the Delta...

You can't change what Memphis means to me, what Memphis has meant to me. It's a special place for me. There's no doubt.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

Honoring figures like Forrest in Memphis while ignoring Wells is like erecting a statue to the Nazi death camp commander Amon Goeth in the Czech Republic town of Svitavy, the birthplace of Oskar Schindler, who rescued 1,200 Jews.

The split in Memphis between those who hold up authentic heroes—people who fought to protect, defend, and preserve life, such as Wells and Burkle—and those who memorialize slave traders and bigots such as Forrest characterizes the ethic of vigilante violence.

As far as Memphis being underrated, I feel like a lot of people have slept on Memphis music when it comes to breaking through into the mainstream.

I rap about Memphis and what a dangerous spot that is.

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.

John and Alan Lomax claimed alternately that "Stack Lee ... was the son of the Lee family of Memphis who owned a large line of steamers that ran up and down the Mississippi" and that the name Stack Lee came from the riverboat of that name.'-