William Bell Quotes

• 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.”

  William Bell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Everybody

• 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.

  William Bell

  Topics in College, Movies

  Tags in Kept

• 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.

  William Bell

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  Tags in Thought, Wrote, Paper

• The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

  William Bell

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  Tags in Elimination, Important, Science

• 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.

  William Bell

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Moments

• To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.

  William Bell

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  Tags in Revised, Professed

• 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.

  William Bell

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  Tags in Club, Military

• 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.

  William Bell

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  Tags in Enough, People

• We worked over at that place The Plantation Inn with The Del Rios. It was really wild over there.

  William Bell

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  Tags in Worked, Wild, Really

• 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.

  William Bell

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Night, Club

• 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.

  William Bell

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Wear, Creating

• 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.

  William Bell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Uncomfortable, Military, Musician

• The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct.

  William Bell

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  Tags in Accept, Bible

• 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.

  William Bell

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  Tags in Growing Up, Song

William Bell (14)

Birth:	16th July, 1939
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Singer

About

William Bell is an American soul singer and songwriter. As a performer, he is probably best known for 1961's "You Don't Miss Your Water" ; 1968's "Private Number" ; and 1976's "Tryin' to Love Two", Bell's only US top 40 hit, which also hit No. 1 on the R&B charts. Upon the death of Otis Redding, Bell released the well-received memorial song "A Tribute to a King".

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