Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Hatfield

Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote a lot of stuff for Phil Spector... we had done all rock and roll and rhythm and blues. I mean, we liked ballads and I suppose we did them OK, but that wasn't where we were emotionally and musically coming from.

Elton John

She can sing anything. She can sing the best ballad in the world. She can sing classical stuff and she can sing soul and rock and roll.

O. J. Simpson

I did some classic ballads and actually some old school R&B fun stuff. It's all over the place.

Victor LaValle

'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H. P. Lovecraft's legacy as both a great writer and a prejudiced man. I grew up worshipping the guy, so this issue felt quite personal to me.

Imelda May

There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

Deborah Cox

When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me.

Alan Lomax

We went over Lead Belly's repertory with him. And we helped him round it off into concert form so that when he got up in front of his audience, he sang ballads and work songs and lullabies and children's games and square-dance tunes, the whole thing.

Keri Hilson

Years ago, I wanted to be like the girl Ne-Yo. You know, with the mid-tempo ballads - I come from the Babyface era. But that's not trendy; that's not hip-hop.

Alan Lomax

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Richard Rogers

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

Rick Perlstein

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Richard P. Feynman

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Robert Palmer

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

Robert Wilson

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Malcolm McDowell

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

Mike Schneider

We're not diminishing his role at quarterback at all; we're just trying to enhance his role within the offense because he's one of our best athletes.

Daryl Manning

We're not best of friends. We're neighbors that talk to each other, that feel comfortable around each other. We both went away with the same thing - lets take a look at this and see how this can work out.

Alexandra Fuller

I listen mostly to classical music.

Richard P. Feynman

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.

Phil Lesh

Many people out there know that I was trained in classical music, and I studied composition for many years before joining the band.

Jamie Cullum

When I was at school, I wanted to play a piano, and they said, 'No, that's for the classical students.' There's always been this air around pianos, which can very often discourage a young person from having a go.

Dennis Ritchie

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

Andre Previn

I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.

Lionel Richie

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

John Tesh

I grew up with the Woodstock generation. I went to Woodstock, and like everybody in my school, I wanted to be in a rock-and-roll band, and most of us were. But I also grew up with a lot of piano lessons and a lot of classical music training.

Rachel Platten

I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

Alexandra Fuller

But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of that distant African river as it plummets onto black rocks and sends up into the sun a permanent arc of a rainbow.

William Wordsworth

Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf/ Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself.

Keith Mason

Like any other kids, we all got into trouble. Having rock fights, things like that.

Pat Simmons

So it's a little R&B, a little rock 'n' roll, a little blues, a little folk, a little salsa, everything.

Mike McCready

My favorite rocker is Go because it is heavy and chaotic.

Charles Portis

It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.

Dimitar Sasselov

We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.

Eddie Van Halen

I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?

David Bowie

I am a D.J., I am what I play.

Enrique Pena Nieto

One single visit is not enough to be able to say that you know Mexico.

Mitch Leigh

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

Ken Kutaragi

My homeroom teacher told me I wasn't cooperative, ... I used to get mad, thinking I was being singled out.

Charles Olson

what can we do when even the public conveyances sing? how can we go anywhere, even cross-town how get out of anywhere

Eileen Caddy

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Elena Roger

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

Dave Mustaine

I'm not a great singer

Ahmet Ertegun

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

Daniela Hantuchova

I feel fantastic. It's something really special. Now I can concentrate on my singles career.

Albert Schweitzer

Each act of unfaithfulness toward our inner being is a blot on our souls. If we continue to be unfaithful, our souls are eventually torn apart and we slowly bleed to death.

Charles Spurgeon

You'll never be a winner of souls unless you're first a weeper for souls.

Charles Spurgeon

Winners of souls must first be weepers for souls.

Charles Spurgeon

The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.

Charles R. Swindoll

Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.

Dennis Quaid

I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

Democritus

Soul and intellect are just the same things.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.

Edgar Allan Poe

Lord help my poor soul.

Kevin Mitnick

I keep my stuff updated all the time. Being in the security industry, I keep up to date with securities.

Lisa McGiffert

When you read stuff like this, you wonder who you can trust.

Dominic Monaghan

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

Aaron Carter

My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

E. B. White

I wish they had stuff like this when I was little.

Troy Williamson

I feel pretty good. There's still a lot of stuff that I need to work on. I'm just trying to get better as I go along.

Chad Cordero

I did stuff I thought I'd never do, ... It was totally unexpected.

Kevin Federline

I don't know. Why does all that stuff come out?

Roderick Wilmont

I don't know what's going on. I'm here to play, that's all. I see the stuff on TV. I know as much as you all know.