Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Evans

People listen to me because I can put together stories and rhymes. I'm no guitarist like Slash.

Colin Greenwood

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

Darin Strauss

I'm no fan of jam bands. You can take your Gov't Mule, your Phish, your Rusted Root. But Derek Trucks is a special musician - perhaps the greatest slide guitarist who ever lived.

Eric Clapton

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

Dee Brown

Me and James (Augustine) have been through this before as sophomores. You just have to play with a different mentality.

Merry Clayton

I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

Dan Miceli

I got out of a jam in the eighth. I got a little wild in the ninth and I just got beat.

Sally Kirkland

I didn't go to college, not that I don't think people should, but I didn't because I was Off-Broadway when I was 17, with James Earl Jones.

Tony Raines

I don't know what Jamie was thinking or doing,

Sarah Hall

James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.

Isaac Brock

I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.'

Ellie Goulding

I used to make my manager Jamie not tell me where I was going to be the next day, because I was so afraid of flying and of anything. But now I love flying, I love working hard, I love being around the world.

Bill Hader

The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.

Corin Tucker

I feel really privileged that I've been able to be an activist and a musician for over 20 years now, and I've always been able to say whatever I want. I think that's something we Americans really take for granted, but it's a big deal, and it's not something most people in the world are able to do.

Eddie Vedder

Worship the music, not the musicians.

Derek Bailey

I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos.

Tunde Adebimpe

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

Buddy Rich

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

Buddy Guy

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

Carlos Santana

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

Dick Dale

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

Bing Crosby

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

Lloyd Carr

Obviously, there is a sense of urgency about this week that's very special, that perhaps is different.

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Tad Williams

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Trey Gowdy

For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.

Cliff Black

We don't know what ignited it, perhaps a leak.

Eric Brown

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

Bill Lee

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel...

Al Goldman

Uncertainty in Washington has greased the slide downward.

Jose Rios

I was on the top of the slide going down.

Mark Dinger

No work can be done until the slide stabilizes and we don't know when that will occur.

Mark Dinger

No work can be done until the slide stabilizes, and we don't know when that will occur.

Greg Moore

The slide breached the back wall of the house.

Margaret Atwood

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

Naomi Judd

An expert is just somebody from out of town with slides.

Lee Smith

Without these trucks here, I don't think we would have made it.

Robert Rogers

I just went over to where all those trucks were parked to see if they were hiring, and they were,

George Ross

You're going to have a lot of trucks until they're done.