top of page
Quote_1.png
William Bell

"I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit."

Standard 
 Customized
"I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit."

Exlpore more Design quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people."

Explore more quotes by William Bell

Quote_1.png
William Bell
"When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was "Everybody Loves a Winner.""
Quote_1.png
William Bell
"It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business."
Quote_1.png
William Bell
"The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff."
Quote_1.png
William Bell
"When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes."
Quote_1.png
William Bell
"There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on... we had some good times."
Quote_1.png
William Bell
"I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and when I came out they had like two or three vocalists. Otis came in when I was in the military, too."
Quote_1.png
William Bell
"Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads."
Quote_1.png
William Bell
"I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place."
Quote_1.png
William Bell
"Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it."
Quote_1.png
William Bell
"I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit."
bottom of page