Famous Quotes & Sayings

Koko Taylor

Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

Willie Dixon

My God, I never heard a woman sing the blues like you sing the blues,

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!'

Merry Clayton

I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.'

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.

Keith Tkachuk

I don't know what's going to happen here. I'm not the general manager . . . I'm not the owner. I'm just a player that has to do his job to help his team win and whatever happens, happens. We as players can only control one thing: how we perform on the ice. We need more guys worried about that than worried about other things right now. That's probably (why the Blues are in) the situation we're in right now, because people worry about that.

David Gilmour

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.

David Gilmour

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also will use any gadget or device that I find that helps me achieve the sort of sound on the guitar that I want to get.

B. B. King

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

Swae Lee

Man, I listened Nas and B.I.G growing up. I listened to both of them when I was younger for sure.

Bob Davidson

One of the things we try to do (is) have people that try to listen, ... As our people sat and listened to her story - we realized (her) situation.

Heidi Klum

Maybe he listened to what we'd been telling him.

Tessa Thompson

I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year I listened to Joni Mitchell.

Charlie Puth

I listened to a lot of Marvin Gaye and Motown records.

Dennis Brown

You just went right in and just recorded songs and listened them, and if there were any mistakes, then we would correct them and just went on... one take or two take.

Saint Ignatius

Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.

will.i.am

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.

Carly Simon

But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.

Richard Rogers

I love my job. What would I retire to?

Robin Chase

I would love to have had much more money so that I could be a philanthropist.

Robert Palmer

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

Robert Osborne

I love to be able to meet people who are successful, and I love them not because they're successful, but usually people who are successful have qualities that make them interesting to be around.

Malcolm McDowell

I've tried it all. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

Malin Akerman

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

Albert Schweitzer

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

Albert Schweitzer

Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

William Walsh

Of all the plagues a lover bears,Sure rivals are the worst!

Chris Cleave

This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.

Aimee Bender

My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

Edith Sitwell

The poet is the complete lover of mankind.

Edith Wharton

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

Unknown

To our wives and lovers - may they never meet!

Axl Rose

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

Carl von Clausewitz

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Bradley Cooper

I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.

Albert Schweitzer

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

David Circle

Let them know that you support music programs.

Dan Hill

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

Janice Stockigt

Several of its themes and musical motifs are strikingly similar to those present in other Vivaldi works.

Grimes

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

Laura Mvula

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

H. Hart

Music is feeling. Once you start thinking about it then you overdevelop it. It should come from the heart, the soul, and the subconscious. Music is all about the moment, and if you think about it then you're already in the next moment.

Rutina Wesley

Music is definitely influential on how I approach my scenes.

Daron Malakian

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

Jill Buford

I don't think any one of these is the solution. It's going to be a combination of them all. This is just a big puzzle and we need to put all the pieces together.

Aaron Copland

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

Kathy Miles

So he wrote on a little yellow piece of paper, 'Les Miles.'

William Wycherley

I have been toiling and moiling for the prettiest piece of china, my dear.

William John Wills

Our clothes are going to pieces fast. Send provisions as soon as possible.

Jamey Wright

We have the pieces to the puzzle. We have a lot of weapons.

Kathay Lovell

We've been down this road before with non-performance of redevelopment property. I don't want to go down that road again. That's a valuable piece of property.

Alexander Wang

If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Penn Badgley

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Lou Mazzucchelli

There could be all sorts of other stuff, too.

Rudolph Penner

I think they're going to squeeze out all sorts of other spending items.

Jason Anderson

I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records.

Michael Leunig

In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.

Michelle Monaghan

I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers.

John Hurt

I've done all sorts of children's things before, but none as big as 'Harry Potter.'

April Pearson

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.