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Compliment Quotes


"I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent."


"There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much."


"When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'"


"I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget."


"For me, it's a compliment to be compared with Marilyn, the unforgettable actress, the most beautiful one of all. But, curves aside, we have very little in common."


"I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way."


"Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around."


"I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man."


"Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them."


"In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead."


"Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment."


"To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved."


"I never get tired of hearing compliments."


"As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'"


"The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing."


"I can take criticisms but not compliments."


"If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable."


"I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment."


"Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment."


"I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth."


"The biggest compliment to me is that guys really approach me and they have a connection with me, so there must be something I'm doing that is authentic, otherwise they wouldn't connect with me so strongly. It's a real compliment."


"Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive."


"It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment."
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