Gary Rossington Quotes

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.

I was called McG since the day I was born because we were broke and there were three Joes in the house.

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

When I was young, poverty was so common that it didn’t have a name.

I was very poor when I was young.

Growing up, we never really had money. If I wanted to get something, I had to go out and get a job.

When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.

I grew up in Plaza East public housing in the Western Addition, five of us living on $900 per month. 'Recycling' meant drinking out of old mayonnaise jars.

Yeah, I came over to Cambridge with 500 quid in my pocket and I had to borrow a waistcoat off another Australian player. I couldn't afford to buy one.

Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with.

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [...] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [...] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton.

I was born and raised during Depression Years when we were on County relief and we all went out and we hustled. we worked. I worked in a restaurant, I washed dishes.

When I first got to L.A., I was stretching $20 a week, waiting tables, and I did that for about six months. I didn't mind it at all, I was really happy for that experience, but it made me really get aggressive about what I want. I've been doing this since I was eight, and never considered doing anything else, so I really had to kick it into gear.

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

It's fun, I didn't have enough money as a kid to buy a drum set, so I had to do something. I would mimic the sounds. That was it. And it worked. It worked for years.

My parents would make huge crops of sometimes 55 to 60 bales of cotton. Being from a big family where there were 20 children, it wasn't too hard to pick that much cotton. But my father, year after year, didn't get too much money and I remember he just kept going.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.

My wife and I were poor when I started but we struggled along until things happened for me in my thirties. I knew I was doing what I loved even if I wasn't getting paid for it, so I think I'd still be doing it.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.