Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Previn

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Agnes Repplier

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

Charlie Byrd

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

Charlie Byrd

I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that.

Charlie Byrd

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

Charlie Byrd

The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so much as the music itself. But the guitar is the vehicle I use. It's how I express myself. As for the emotional side, music takes up where language leaves off. To try and verbalize what music says, emotionally and spiritually, is futile. Let me put it this way, Louis Armstrong once said if you've got to ask, you'll never know.

Charlie Byrd

Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group-carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does.

Charlie Byrd

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Charlotte Bronte

Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.

Charlie Ergen

You either trust someone day one until they prove you wrong, or you say, 'I don't trust you until you show me I can trust you.' I'm the latter.

Charles de Gaulle

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

Dhirubhai Ambani

Dhirubhai will go one day. But Reliance's employees and shareholders will keep it afloat. Reliance is now a concept in which the Ambanis have become irrelevant.

David Mitchell

Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.

David Niven

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

Byron Katie

In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.

Cesc Fabregas

If one day I have to leave Barcelona, probably the first thing I will look into is Arsenal

Cary Fukunaga

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

Ambrose Bierce

Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.

Oswald Chambers

Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?

Miguel de Cervantes

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.

Mary Webb

The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

Michael Moore

The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.

Lou Reed

I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.

Maggie Smith

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

Rumi

There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket.

Sam Walter Foss

Just drop your bucket where you are.