Dive bars rely on a steady stream of neighborhood regulars to keep their doors open.
The Constitution’s Emoluments Clause bars the president from earning any compensation from a foreign government. Mr. Trump ought to consider a partial disinvestment from his company by either selling outright or rejecting the proceeds of any stakes with foreign government partners.
When Pandora doesn’t pay, and bars don’t pay, and weddings don’t pay, and nobody buys CDs or shirts or concert tickets or lessons, then the musician can’t make a living making music.
If you look at coffee, tea, food and juice, we think there are inherent opportunities. If you look at health bars or grab-and-go products that are in our stores, we think we can significantly enhance them and make them more widely available.
The way my father worked altruistically and the manner in which he used to go behind bars and come back home smilingly was inspirational.
If I’m ordering power bars online, I’ll order 480. Everything is times-10 in my life.
The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It is the most direct, bare-bones of content. There is no interference between the head and heart.
I don’t hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.
From the coffee bars of Camden to the gin joints of Norfolk – across Britain, a revolution is brewing. And no, it’s not John McDonnell’s bitter socialist hooch. It’s a generation growing up with an entirely different view of the world – free thinking, optimistic and hungry for success.
I always packed around this guitar my mother gave me before I left home, I would write songs and play them for my buddies at the rodeos and local bars we would frequent.
Recording at Compass Point was really fantastic. When you’re in the studio, you could be anywhere: It could be snowing outside or whatever. But it’s great fun when you come out of the studio and are greeted by nice weather and good bars.
I handed out flyers in malls, candies in gasoline stations; helped set up tarpaulins in bars. I played bit roles in several indie movies. Looking back, I can say it has definitely been a long journey.
Watching David write was inspiring to me. He was at his most content composing. Music floated from his mind and fingertips. He would strum the 11 strings on his 12-string Harptone guitar and wander to the piano and play a few bars, then off to forage for rice pudding in the kitchen.
I don’t tour the TV studios. I don’t gossip over lunch. I don’t drink in Parliament’s bars. I don’t wear my heart on my sleeve. I just get on with the job in front of me.
Dubrovnik is still a thriving, bustling city with modern day shops, restaurants and bars yet still has the old city charm of street vendors, performers and women hanging laundry outside the windows.
I have a standup I do in gay bars, and it’s filthy. I have to assess the crowd. If it’s an all-gay crowd, I’ll dip into the stories of my sordid past.
I like to sit and listen to conversations here in Nashville. Not in a weird, stalker-ish way. I wander around Tennessee and find myself in little bars just zoning in.
I’m like Ann Coulter in a way. I talk in public and on the record the same way I talk to my friends in bars. I don’t censor myself.
I didn’t want to be short. I’ve tried to pretend that being a short guy didn’t matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women.
Normally, if we’re staying in a town before a show, I’ll go to a barcade. Those are dive bars that have tons of arcades, since there aren’t a ton of arcades where kids can put quarters in games and actually have that kind of arcade experience.
If I write a book, it has to be so awesome. It has to be next level, to prove mysel. Just like if you are an athlete and you want to rap, you better bring the bars. Don’t come in with nursery rhymes.
When I started listening to rap music, I loved the fact that there were stories being told in 16 bars.
You ever see a bar with 200 beautiful women go broke? But I’ve seen a lot of bars with great DJs go broke.
I remember going on adventures with my older brother and, when I was 11, being allowed to go to the corner shop alone, and filling up a bag with penny chews, Fruit Salads, Bruiser bars and Black Jacks.
We stay in U2’s hotel. They bought a hotel, The Clarence, a nice place and it’s in an area where everything’s happening, so many fantastic restaurants and bars and the people are so friendly.
What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?
I love walking down Beale Street, which is home to countless cafes, restaurants and bars. Every bar has a live band, and as you walk along the street in the evening you can hear raw blues and rock n’ roll spilling out of them.
We need to talk about representation for queer people in the media and also in law. And there’s a long history of drag queens leading those discussions in marches on the street and even in bars going back to the time of Stonewall and before.
Drag shows are one of my favorite things in the world. As a straight man I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance.
I am not looking for a relationship right now. I have no interest in putting my time or effort into another person, nor do I need another person to put energy into me, OK? Because that’s what granola bars are for.
Enacted in 1994, the first of the MSRB rules bars employees of firms that underwrite state and municipal bonds from donating to any official seeking federal office who has any role in giving business to bond firms.
The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
We didn’t want to worry about the formula that has been implanted into our brains – this verse/pre-chorus/chorus format. When we were writing ‘The Papercut Chronicles,’ we had no idea about any of that. We didn’t know how to count bars or how to write what’s considered a well-formatted pop song.
Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren’t made of iron bars.
Every single day, authors read at bookstores and libraries – and coffeeshops and bars – all over the country. And these readings are amazing: you get to hear the book in the author’s own voice, ask questions, and meet the writer. For free.
Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.
One of my homeboys from my neighborhood had actually taught me how to rap. He was the rapper and we would all go over to his house. It would be like 10 or 12 of us in there and he’d write everybody’s rap in the house and would give everybody four or eight bars.
I can’t stand going to those sandwich bars where you’ve got to choose your own stuff, because I don’t know what goes together. It does my head in. I’d rather them tell me. I’m not the expert. I haven’t spent years learning these different combinations.
I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.
Married life is an existence with bars around it.
Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We would go to The Chicken Box and all the bars and play.
‘The Deuce’ came about when David Simon and I were put in contact with a guy who, along with his twin brother, owned a couple bars in Times Square.
Nobody wants to see arm bars or cross-body blocks anymore.
I grew up in the West End, so my whole background was living among theatres and musicals and the West End’s coffee bars and clubs. It’s kind of obvious that one day I should do something like that.
My favorite whisky bar in the world is in my adopted Bangkok. A refined and secretive Japanese speakeasy among the girly bars of Soi 33, it’s called Hailiang.
James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.
Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.
I started an all-girl band called Helen when I was 15. It wasn’t a precocious thing to do – everyone we knew was in a band, and all the bars and pubs in Leeds put on nights.
You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique.
I’m guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
You don’t necessarily know you’re consuming sugar when you’re using store-bought salad dressing, or store-bought tomato sauce, or healthy granola bars. It’s added to all these foods.
Growing up in bars might sound like child abuse. And if it does, then you’re what my mom would call ‘Protestants.’
When Kanye gets to a point where he can actually put a couple of notes together either vocally or two bars of valid music playing an instrument, then he might have a right to criticize somebody else.
Between sixteen and eighteen, I was singing anywhere I could, in bars or down at the pub.
I’ve found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that’s where many people cultivate inspiration.
