Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Brewer

Our regional success was helpful when we broke nationally, because we'd laid the foundations and were used to being on television and performing live. We did it the old-fashioned way, and built our fan base through stopping by radio stations to promote our albums and touring extensively.

Clinton Sparks

People like Busta Rhymes would say, 'Clinton Sparks doesn't do mix tapes; he does albums. He just throws albums out on the street.'

Jason Mraz

Steven, my friend who came out to me my senior year, was a huge Madonna fan. So I may know all the words to 'Bedtime Stories,' 'Erotica,' and a few more of her albums - and we may have watched 'Truth or Dare' a thousand times.

Robert Forster

Somehow I think it would end up a folk-rock album if it came to pass.

Joe Russo

Our whole dynamic is kind of based around that push and pull. Marco is a very skilled jazz musician and I'm rock oriented. When we first started out, that's the way it was, he was very jazz, and I was very rock, and I think that's what has made the sound and the album special. But we've evolved to retain both of those features within ourselves as a result of playing together.

Rivers Cuomo

Rock and Roll Over' was the first Kiss album I heard, but I was totally oblivious to their whole image and the makeup and all that. I was so out of touch with the wider world.

B.o.B

Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like... I take pride in my work and I'm not going to do something just to say that I can do it if I ain't really passionate about doing it. I'm very passionate about my music. Sometimes I take it too seriously.

Bruce Springsteen

Making this album was creatively liberating because I have a love of all those different roots sounds. They can conjure up a world with just a few notes and a few words.

M.I.A.

Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.

Michael Heizer

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

Shakira

I'm convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.

Dave Kaplan

I'm all for promoting Kodiak fish. I always have been.

David Blunkett

No one is going macho, no one's trying to do this for the sake of promoting some sort of vitriolic or anti-human rights agenda,

Simon Lock

We've been heavily promoting it around the region.

Derek Sivers

Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working.

Tom Lehrer

I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

Rob Thomas

Because we've spent so much time promoting the album, doing radio shows where you play one or two songs, and doing interviews, I'm all about wanting to get on the road and just play.

Wu Bangguo

I am sure your visit will go a long way to promoting the development of China-Pakistan relations.

George Raft

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

Dick Durbin

He said he spent more time worrying over and working on that decision,

Terry Jenkins

If we wouldn't have done anything, we would have spent more.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Jay Weatherill

What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings.

Italo Calvino

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

Felix Feneon

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Geoffrey West

I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

Carol Ierulli

I did not play sports, I was the studious one and I was always in the library.

James Gray

I was going to Studio 54 when I was 12 years old. It's true. It's crazy.

Moira Kelly

Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want to be a big studio actress. I don't want to be in the limelight.

Ciaran Hinds

Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

Willie Aames

I never learned to study in studio school, so I had to teach myself to study.

Bruce Weber

Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometimes you have to, like when you're in a studio and you're doing fashion shooting, but I don't even do it then.

David R. Ellis

Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't have to worry so much about the studio and all the other actors and all that.

Vonda Shepard

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

B.o.B

I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?