Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Mars

When you play in a band, you're in phase with people. When you're a DJ, you're totally off-phase. Your work time is 3 A.M. - 5 A.M. and I don't think you can connect. You're miserable the whole time. Whenever I see a DJ in the airport, they are always on the verge of crying.

Tove Lo

There are some nights where I don't get enough sleep, or we're traveling a lot. And then I'll go do a radio show, and the DJs are usually so energetic. And they're like, 'Why aren't you excited?' I say, 'I am excited. I'm just Swedish. This is my excited. I can't get to an American excitement level.'

Todd Rundgren

I was lucky enough to grow up in an era when radio was less formatted. It was really special. You could hear a jazz song then a pop song then a show tune then some jazz. Basically, whatever the DJ felt like playing, he would play. He was educating you and exposing you to things you would never hear otherwise.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.

Kaskade

I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

Nas

DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.

Grandmaster Flash

My contribution to this whole thing is I was the first DJ to take an inanimate object called the turntable and play it like it was an instrument.

Grandmaster Flash

My contribution is: I was the first DJ to make the turntable an instrument.

Daren Causey

Music has always been an inspiring factor in my work, and this piece portrays a DJ performing his craft.

Sarah Santana

We want them to have a full year of grieving before they volunteer.

Bob Day

The other times, we just preached at you, ... This time around, it's like you're getting christened in church. This is the full immersion version.

Justin Jeffre

We've all been living life to the fullest during our break,

Jacques Santer

We are at the end of an historic process, ... It has been a long path, a path full of successes and failures.

Ken Vaughn

We are at all full production and we have increased staff, with some openings at mines.

Mark Hansen

We split it up so the Sunday devotional is more spiritual and the Saturday show will be full of all different kinds of music so it lets people know we do more than just soft piano ballads.

Mike Sherman

We're not going to make it look pretty and say, 'Well, we've been here before,' ... We have 14 games to play and we can't panic. But I don't think you can tell them the glass is half full when it's not.

Glenn McGinnis

We have narrowed it down to those who are providing full financing.

Army Sgt.

When he first signed up, he wanted to go for the full 20 years, but we had to talk him into four. He knew the military, he knew what was involved with it the separation, the risks.

Alan Jackson

I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.

David Giuntoli

Honestly, I grew up with Disney.

David Guterson

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

Luke Bracey

'Point Break' is a movie that I and all of my friends grew up loving, watching all the time, quoting, living and being.

Lucas Till

We all grew up with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray.

Nnedi Okorafor

I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.

Elizabeth Moon

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007.

Lennon Parham

'Felicity' was my 'Gilmore Girls' because I grew up in a small town.

Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.

Alan Paton

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

Alan Rickman

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Alan Alda

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

Al Sharpton

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

Chris Christie

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.

Chris Christie

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

Darren Shan

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

Charles Prince

We are going to shift the mix strongly to international.

Curt Miller

We were too perimeter-oriented. Toledo played a mixture of defenses and they really had us on our heels. We were just settling for 3s.

Billy Wilder

My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.

Blake Michael

I've always had a fascination about mixing music,

Blake Michael

Ive always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

Tom Chiappetta

When you put that mix together, we got our own little world here.

Elizabeth Hurley

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

Arthur Helps

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Gia Coppola

Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness.

Alanis Morissette

I started making music because I could.

Alanis Morissette

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

Alanis Morissette

Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

Alanis Morissette

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

Al Jarreau

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

Al Jarreau

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

Chris Colfer

I grew up doing musical theater.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

Chico Hamilton

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

Chris Colfer

I grew up doing musical theater.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

David Naughton

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

Bryan Batt

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

Casey Abrams

I have musical ADD, so I like to switch things up.

Louis C. K.

Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a whole form and all his jokes are poems. So it's different. I wanted to do it like George Carlin. Now I do it like me.

Edward Hoagland

No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache.

Eddie Murphy

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

David Duchovny

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

Kurt Vonnegut

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

Elias Canetti

He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

Ben Jonson

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

Luke Bodensteiner

We start from scratch - that's good. They made the right call.

J. M. Roberts

I feel like they are starting from scratch again, 10 steps backwards.

Carson Kressley

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.

Bill Myers

We used a telephone and a scratch pad.

Christopher Meloni

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.