Scratch Quotes

When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.
Eric San

After, Getting, Started

All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.
Grandmaster Flash

Times, Listening, Enhance

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.
Grandmaster Flash

Write, Song, Takes

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
William Beveridge

Find, Often, Pessimist

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.
Ruth Wilson

Greatest, Parents, Acting

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.
Michael Nyman

Music, Great, Musicians

I don't think it's so much of a disadvantage setting up from scratch.
David Leslie

It is expensive to start from scratch though.
David Leslie

Start, Though, Expensive

South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake.
Nguyen Cao Ky

Person, Difficult, Far

When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
Beau Mirchoff

Around, Move, Nervous

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.
James Huneker

Child, Artist, Surprise

I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.
Billy Childish

Music, Rock, Put

One learns to itch where one can scratch.
Scott Reed

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
Robert Penn Warren

Poetry, Enough, Write

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.
Ruby Dee

Mind, Boss, Won

San Diego walked away with just a scratch.
Susan Davis

Away, San, Walked

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
Janet Malcolm

Great, Two, Find

I think that show will go down in history... people will scratch their heads and say 'How did this ever get on the air?' I mean, they finally have a planet that's populated with a black race and then they present them as savage warriors, and the men want the white girl!
Denise Crosby

Men, History, Girl

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
Andreas Capellanus

Woman, Human, Giving

Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.
Betty Rollin

Sex, Woman, She

Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.
Tom Walsh

Humor, Society, Public

I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.
Hal Linden

Time, Same, Around

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