Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums.
Among the guitarists, Wes Montgomery is fantastic. He's always good to let you know what the art form is all about. It's the same still life that everybody is painting, but in comes Wes Montgomery, and it's right there!
I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.
I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark. "She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].
I think I'd want to have an affair with a Montgomery but marry a Taggert.
If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up. " -L. M. Montgomery
I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I'm a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery.
All of my life I've spent a lot of time with gay men - Montgomery Clift, Jimmy Dean, Rock Hudson - who are my colleagues, coworkers, confidantes, my closest friends, but I never thought of who they slept with! They were just the people I loved. I could never understand why they couldn't be afforded the same rights and protections as all of the rest of us. There is no gay agenda, it's a human agenda
My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest…I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.
You touch the world even if you do not want it to touch you. -Leona Montgomery
