Home / Quotes / Quote by Billy Preston

Quote by Billy Preston

“The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?”

Quote by Billy Preston

Author

Billy Preston was an American musician born on September 2, 1946, and passed away on June 6, 2006. Known for his unique piano playing and musical compositions, he is a representative figure in rock, soul, and gospel music. Preston had a significant impact in the music industry and collaborated with many famous artists, including The Beatles. His musical career was filled with remarkable achievements, including winning a Grammy Award. more

You May Also Like

“I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.”

Feels Body Rooms Imagine Air Tropical

Author:Rickie Lee Jones

“What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong?”

Doe Care Corpses

Author:Manuel Azana

“There are a lot of people whove been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.”

People Use Able Window Machines Collaboration Linux Server Desktop

Author:Nat Friedman

“I have a G4 at home. Theyre great machines for individual users, and I even know a few core Linux hackers who are having a lot of fun with them. But if you want to move the needle on the non-Microsoft desktop, youve got to look elsewhere.”

Ifs Knows Want Looks Home Moving Individual Fun Machines Core Users Elsewhere Needles Microsoft Hackers Linux Desktop

Author:Nat Friedman

“Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.”

Wells Has Beens Guy Hours Deals Issues Creating Standards Red Machines Management Various Enterprise Software Carpet Packages Corny Red Carpet Updates Deploying

Author:Nat Friedman

“As Mono matures, people will begin to use it to write desktop components that take advantage of all the hard work thats gone into some of the meatier GNOME libraries, as well as the nifty language features of C#.”

People Writing Wells Hard Use Language Gone Hard Work Advantage Library Features Components Gnome Desktop Mono

Author:Nat Friedman

“This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.”

People Needs Use Easy Tools

Author:Nat Friedman

“Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.”

Social Movement Source Development Software Methodology Social Movements Open Source

Book:Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

“I'm always happy when I'm protesting.”

Author:Richard Stallman

“I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.”

Writing Code Islands Indonesia Java

Author:Richard Stallman