Coffee Houses – Quotes

I heard an Englishman,

I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on the road, or in the field, at the theatre, the coffee-house, or at home, he had never overheard Americans conversing without the word DOLLAR being pronounced between them. Such unity of … Read more

For those two years

For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff. Dan Fogelberg

My dream is to

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air. Christina Applegate

I’ve been close friends

I’ve been close friends with Katy since teenagers, before she was Katy Perry. She’s always been a great resource for me to pull from and watch – from her choice of how public she wants to be about her personal life on down. I also watched her develop from the coffee-house singer-songwriter I knew to … Read more

In my head, I

In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you’d choreograph dancers in costumes to. It was more coffee-house stuff. Bonnie McKee

Lightnin’ Hopkins was something

Lightnin’ Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up. Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form – the blues. Billy Gibbons

To the haranguers of

To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers. Benjamin Franklin

A world in which

A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of … Read more

When I was 6

When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called ‘Dead End.’ The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.
Aaron Carter