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.

Ben Stein

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

Bernard Cornwell

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.

David Riesman

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

Dirk Benedict

LIFE: My favorite occupation.

Khaled Mashaal

There can be no peace if the occupation continues.

Adam Savage

We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it's been quite smooth over there. We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

Alberto Manguel

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

Dorothy L. Sayers

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Jane Austen

I can always live by my pen.

Delia Ephron

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

Andrea Corr

I don't really live by plans.

Mike Brady

Exact words are hard to live by.

Pliny the Elder

We live by reposing trust in each other.

John Cage

...we make our lives by what we love.

John Fowles

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

Sylvia Plath

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

Robert Kiyosaki

You choose the #life you live. If you don't like it, it's on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you.