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Brother Quotes


"I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash."


"You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers."


"I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point."


"I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring."


"My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old."


"My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together."


"I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre."


"Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other."


"If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me."


"If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices."


"Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother."


"I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards."


"P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel."


"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."


"My brother Cody is 19. He wants to stay out of the limelight and become a lawyer. I want him to be an entertainment lawyer, so he can help me out!"


"Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention."


"Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant."


"And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion."


"One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions."


"I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!"


"Well, I mean, you have an emotion, you want to express it. You don't just look in the camera and do it. You want to hide from the embarrassment of your brother saying you're not allowed to come into my town."


"There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother."


"Foreman told Ray to plead guilty and he'd then give his brother $500, if Ray didn't cause any problems at the guilty plea hearing, and he could take that $500 and hire a lawyer to set aside the plea. Foreman actually put that in writing."


"I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs."


"Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong."


"I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion."
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