Browsing Topic Best Barbershop Quotes

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

Black movies don’t have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That’s not a name, that’s just a location.

No matter what barbershop you go to, there’s always that guy who’s just hanging around and doesn’t do much, but knows everything that’s going on in the community.

My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother’s hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson.

The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.

A man goes to a barbershop and asks, How many ahead of me? Five. The man leaves. He comes back the next day and asks, How many ahead of me? Four. The man leaves. He comes back the next day and asks, How many ahead of me? Six. The man leaves, and the barber says to another, Follow that man! The man comes back and says, He goes to your house!

I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That’s how I started with doo-wop. Now I’ve come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.

There’s things people say in the barbershop they won’t even say in their own living room, because it’s just one of those zones where nobody’s going to judge you too much about your dumb opinion.

He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.

Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

I’ll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.

Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.

There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.

I think of fans like a barbershop. I want that debate.

For me, it’s all about the haircut. I don’t have a lot of hair to style, so I keep it nice and fresh and tight. I actually go to the barbershop every five days. As soon as your haircut is on point, you have to make sure your outfit is fully ironed, you smell good, and you have clean sneakers on. Pretty much the head-to-toe look.