Steve Forbert You don’t see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds. – Steve Forbert
JrRoy Blount A good heavy book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. – Roy Blount, Jr
Ray Guy I’ve written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children’s feet – and a bottle of gin in the cupboard. – Ray Guy
Pete Doherty Gunga Gin’ is a true Libertines amalgamation, in the proper, old-fashioned sense of the word. – Pete Doherty
Patrick Cantlay If you play enough gin hands, a one or two percent difference in skill translates to almost an assured win over many, many, many hands of gin. – Patrick Cantlay
Michiko Kakutani President Trump not only lies with astonishing temerity and abandon, but those lies connect into equally false narratives that gin up the worst fears and prejudices of his base. – Michiko Kakutani
Jean Marsh I really don’t like parties. I circle the room with a glass of water disguised as a gin and tonic – so that people don’t keep insisting I have a ‘proper drink’ – and then I leave. – Jean Marsh
Irma S Rombauer Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination. For the benefit of a minority, it is courteous to serve chilled fruit juice in addition to cocktails made with liquor. – Irma S Rombauer
Halsey My mom is awesome. She’s really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three. – Halsey
Gin Wigmore I was in a band in Auckland, and I remember they all hated me. They had a big intervention. They said, basically, ‘Gin, we think you suck.’ I was miserable. I cried and cried. But looking back, that taught me about social skills and how to communicate with musicians. – Gin Wigmore
Frank Vincent I remember playing in Union City, and we had crap games after we finished playing at night. We would go next door to the cab stand where they were playing gin rummy and betting $1,000 a hand. – Frank Vincent
