Barbershop Quotes

• I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.

  Ned Beatty

  Men, Shots, Music Man

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• There's things people say in the barbershop they won't even say in their own living room, because it's just one of those zones where nobody's going to judge you too much about your dumb opinion.

  Ice Cube

  Judging, People, Dumb

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

  Aldous Huxley

  Bad Day, Simple, Listening

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• Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

  Karl Kraus

  Hair, Intelligence, Sake

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• No matter what barbershop you go to, there's always that guy who's just hanging around and doesn't do much, but knows everything that's going on in the community.

  Deon Cole

  Community, Guy, Matter

  Source: newsblaze.com

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• Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Funny, Sarcastic, Might

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• For me, it's all about the haircut. I don't have a lot of hair to style, so I keep it nice and fresh and tight. I actually go to the barbershop every five days. As soon as your haircut is on point, you have to make sure your outfit is fully ironed, you smell good, and you have clean sneakers on. Pretty much the head-to-toe look.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Nice, Hair, Sneakers

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• A man goes to a barbershop and asks, How many ahead of me? Five. The man leaves. He comes back the next day and asks, How many ahead of me? Four. The man leaves. He comes back the next day and asks, How many ahead of me? Six. The man leaves, and the barber says to another, Follow that man! The man comes back and says, He goes to your house!

  Henny Youngman

  Men, Next Day, House

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• I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson.

  George Clinton

  Brother, Kings, Hair

  "Not My Job: We Quiz Funk Legend George Clinton On The British Parliament". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. January 24, 2015.

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• I think of fans like a barbershop. I want that debate.

  Pitbull

  Thinking, Fans, Want

  "Doggy Style" by Kent Russel, www.gq.com. March 22, 2012.

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• I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.

  Pablo Picasso

  Wine, Long, Needs

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• There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.

  Tina Weymouth

  Goes On, Quartets, Stills

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I tend to go with things people need. Obviously with the barbershop, people will need haircuts regardless of the economy. In a down economy, I choose businesses that don't require a lot of start-up cash or a cash injection on a regular basis. They might need some initially, but not often after. Rental of properties is a good business in a down economy as people struggle with mortgages.

  Kamerion Wimbley

  Struggle, People, Needs

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• He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Jobs, Ideas, Way

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Black movies don't have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That's not a name, that's just a location.

  Chris Rock

  Real, Names, Black

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• I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of heroic, oversized painting of black men in a barbershop. But it was painted on the same level and with the same urgency that you would see in a grand-scale [Anthony] van Dyck or [Diego] Velazquez. The composition was classically informed; the painting technique was masterful. And it was something that really inspired me because, you know, these were images of young, black men in painting on the museum walls of one of the more sanctified and sacred institutions in Los Angeles.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Wall, Men

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was grieving for the loss of my old barbershop in Manhattan, and wondering at the strangeness of my new one. I didn't have any idea the poem would break into the underworld, opening a deeper subject: the continuing force of the old griefs routine helps to mediate, and my strange, sheer wonder at my own survival. Where's home now? In the contingent present, in which anything can disappear, and where we're sometimes granted some form of grace.

  Mark Doty

  Grief, Home, Loss

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• My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

  Clare Bowen

  Beautiful, Grandmother, Grandparent

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• The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.

  Harryette Mullen

  Dream, Hurt, Dark

  Harryette Mullen (2002). “Sleeping with the Dictionary”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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• Farrakhan got everybody together for the Million Man March and everything. But Farrakhan don't like the Jews. Which is bugged. I get my hair cut on Dekalb Avenue. I never been in a barbershop and heard a bunch of brothers talking about Jews. Black people don't hate Jews. Black people hate white people! We don't got time to dice white people up into little groups. I hate everybody! I don't care if you just got here. "Hey, I'm Romanian." "You Romanian cracker!"

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Brother, Hate

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• I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.

  George Clinton

  School, Circles, Tin Pan Alley

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• Bernie Sanders has done a great job of, social media black kids know about him. Young black people progressives know about him. Through barbershops and barbershop tour that we have been on, we hit three barbershops a day. People know about him.

  Killer Mike

  Jobs, Kids, Media

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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