Quotes by Bob Livingston

About Bob Livingston:

Robert Linlithgow "Bob" Livingston, Jr. is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist and a former Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana. He was Chairman of the Appropriations Committee from 1995–1999, and he was chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives late in 1998 but chose to withdraw and retire.
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Education, for me, has helped me in my music.

Bob Livingston

Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senior year. But I played guitar in assemblies whenever I could.

Bob Livingston

We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.

Bob Livingston

We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent.

Bob Livingston

I wasn't really living anywhere... I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in places.

Bob Livingston

I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch on the next song; I'd play piano... we'd play mandolin.

Bob Livingston

I'd play with these Indian players, the tabla and sitar.

Bob Livingston

I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane!

Bob Livingston

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.

Bob Livingston

The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.

Bob Livingston

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

Bob Livingston

Author Bio

  • NameBob Livingston
  • DescriptionAmerican politician and lobbyist
  • BornApril 30, 1943
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Lawyer; Lobbyist