Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Skaggs

With the name and the recognition that we've had for the last 15 years here in the business, I really think that we can make a difference and just let people know that, hey, bluegrass is cool, it's hip, and it's awesome, and if it's done in a great way and a great presentation, I don't know who wouldn't like it.

Chad Hershner

Last year, we had mostly jazz, bluegrass and Broadway. We saw we needed more Broadway, story dance and family events. We've got something for everyone.

Steve Earle

I think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's not part of the musical mainstream anymore.

Chris Stapleton

It is a really interesting to hear yourself on the radio. I've gotten to hear myself in different capacities. I've heard myself on Sirius XM on the bluegrass channels, and on WSM and other places.

Mark O'Connor

He was one of the greatest, most creative fiddlers in country and bluegrass music history.

Deborah Moggach

My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.

Ricky Skaggs

It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bluegrass that I wouldn't necessarily call bluegrass, but what they're calling country music today I'm not sure that I would call country music. But I love music and I try to encourage people.

Jill Williams

I thought it was really cute, since it talked about Appaloosas, and that's what we are. I like it because it's different than the stuff we usually play. We haven't done bluegrass before. Usually, we play a country song.

Roger Brown

I went through a phase where I wanted to reject everything I thought was redneck. Bluegrass was part of that.

Nancy Idland

We have musicians from as far away as Ontario and Seattle traveling all the way to Greenville to be a part of our first blues festival - this is exciting.

Larry Groce

There is no question that he is one of the most dynamic performers we've had. We will give him as much time as we can and really let him stretch out. At this point it is Buddy Guy and B.B. King who are the greatest blues men alive.

Jon Nicholson

We found her singing at a blues bar, ... where she was waitressing.

Larry Pleau

We're pleased to say that Bryce's career as a member of the St. Louis Blues will continue for several more years,

Robbie Robertson

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta.

Josh Martin

Old blues stuff is pretty much what we really listen to, and what, on the foundation, structures the band, as far as music goes. That's what we're all collectively super into.

Susan Tedeschi

I feel like I'm part of a big family, ... I meet blues singers all the time, and they're surprised that I'm a white girl but very supportive. And when they hear me sing, they just say, 'Girl!'

John Mayall

I think initially people like Johnny Lang, they seemed to be a novelty at the time but nowadays there are so many blues guitarists.

John Brady

I think there are a lot of wannabes...but I don't think there's another Lee Atwater, ... but no one can play blues guitar with B.B. King that I know of and also run a presidential campaign...

Keith Bowman

The positive share price reaction is a result of investor perception that the sum of the parts is worth more than the current combined businesses.

David Yen

We're in a new cycle of innovation for SPARC that delivers incredible performance gains, ... Scalable high performance processing, combined with the same power consumption, footprint and price as previous generations, make the new Sun Fire servers the ideal platform for server consolidation.

Alan Mulally

We also solidified the transformation of our product line, and the market validated our strategy with every order during the year. Our new portfolio of airplanes from 100 to 450 seats, combined with our global support services, put us in a great position for the long term.

Tanith Belbin

We're so glad to be a part of this generation of ice dancing. It's a combined score.

Harley Shaiken

What's new about the global economy is First World productivity combined with Third World wages. That can create some real downward pressure on high-wage countries.

Duane Campbell

With their combined knowledge, it's just incredible . . . I'm learning something new every day,

Bill Watkins

With the increased scale of the combined company, we can reduce overall product costs and provide more innovative products at more competitive prices.

Judy McGrath

There is a way to operate this company if we combine forces in some places. Rather than having four editorial departments, we will have one. There also will be some shared technology practices.

Ashwin Sanghi

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

Charlie Daniels

I love my country. I love my guns. I love my family. I love the way it is now, and anybody that tries to change it has to come through me. That should be all of our attitudes. Cause this is America, and a country boy is good enough for me, son.

Charles Tupper

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

Charles Tupper

My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.

Charles Taylor

Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact

Charles Sumner

There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If he be in a foreign land, the flag is companionship and country itself, with all its endearment...The very colors have a language which was recognized by our fathers; white is for purity; red, for valor; blue, for justice. And altogether, bunting, stripes, stars, and colors, blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country, to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.

Charles Sumner

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

Charles E. Wilson

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

Charles de Gaulle

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Charles de Gaulle

Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.

Charles Tennyson Turner

It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.

Jenn Davis

We want to take this as far as we can. We hope to play three more games. Right now, our goal is to win (Saturday) and get to the state tournament.

Buddy Pough

We know what they can do, and they've been stopped so far this season.

Mike Thomas

We know we have the potential to go far into the playoffs.

Allison McGeer

We know from the testing that's been done so far that this is not influenza, we know this is not SARS, we know this is not avian influenza. There are many other viruses it could be ... and the Ontario Public Health lab is working very hard on identifying which one of those viruses it might be.

Louise Jameson

I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do.

Russell Crowe

The people who don't have a good relationship with me from a good performance point of view are very few and far between.

Dave Rose

We are a far better team when we get out and score in transition.

Flip Saunders

We are at the tip of the iceberg as far as where we are and where we could be.

Al Jarreau

I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.

Matt Rosoff

There are some folks who have been there for a long time and who will resent the way things are being run as a bureaucracy. And maybe they were there for the big stock run-up and they're seeing the stock not move now.

Brian Bosma

There are some folks up in northern Indiana who are waiting for public opinion on this matter to be reinforced.

Shelly Grice

There are some folks sitting on the sidelines.

Matt Mullenweg

Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter.

Ronald McDonald

We're managing to get by. We're lucky enough. We've got transportation. We can go get something. A lot of these folks can't. They're just stuck in.

Charlie Adam

What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.

Brian Niceswanger

We're getting a lot of calls. Our folks are staying late and will be here (today) for those who want to verify the information they received.

Gary Peters

There are a lot of folks there waiting for airplanes and a lot of folks going into those establishments looking to relax.

Charlie Daniels

Marry somebody you love. That's the whole thing. And continue to love them.

Charlie Chaplin

Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.

Charlie Chaplin

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Charlie Chaplin

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Charlie Chaplin

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Charles Dudley Warner

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

Charles Dudley Warner

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

Charlie Chaplin

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Charlie Chaplin

Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities — a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

Charlie Chaplin

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.

Charlie Chaplin

I hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins.

Charlie Chaplin

Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

Charlie Chaplin

The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.

Charlie Chaplin

Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

Charlie Chaplin

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Charlie Chaplin

As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.

Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Charlie Daniels

I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.

Charles Dudley Warner

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.

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.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Bob Woodward

The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.

Rich Knighten

We're getting hundreds of tips all over Mexico.

Lee Humphrey

I don't know about that. I don't know if he can take any tips from me. We play two different sports.

Andy Stanley

A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.

Edgar Cayce

Tips for a long lifeKeep sweet, keep friendly, keep loving, if ye would keep young

Bob Groseth

You always want to do better and you always want to win more. But sometimes you've just got to tip your hat.

Mark Leibovich

I've always tried to walk a line between being incisive and acerbic, but not mean. Sometimes I'm going to tip over the line a little bit, but that's usually a line I try not to cross.

Carl Johnson

the tip of the iceberg. There will be more.

Dr. Cartter

That's just the tip of the iceberg. For every one of ours, there are many out there.

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Boozoo Chavis

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Edmund Burke

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Brian King

We try to keep the regulations down. That's an A.T. tradition as much as anything else.

Charles Rosen

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living.

Camille Paglia

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Allan Bloom

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.