Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Cocker

Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

Tina Charles

I would love to do top of pops as a grandma.

Julian Lennon

He wasn't a great father. He was a great musician. That's always been a touchy one, and it will be until I can find the answer, but I don't know if there is one.

Julian Lennon

He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.

Will Champion

So, if we're happy playing the songs we have written, for as long as we can, then that is sort of the proof that they're good songs as well.

Syd Barrett

When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.

Sid Vicious

I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to.

Will Champion

The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Chris Colfer

I grew up doing musical theater.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

David Naughton

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

Bryan Batt

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

Casey Abrams

I have musical ADD, so I like to switch things up.

Louis C. K.

Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a whole form and all his jokes are poems. So it's different. I wanted to do it like George Carlin. Now I do it like me.

Edward Hoagland

No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache.

Eddie Murphy

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

David Duchovny

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

Bob Mould

I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.

Chuck Klosterman

Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless.

James Hetfield

Music is the soundtrack to my life.

Jodi Picoult

Every life has a soundtrack.

Nathan East

Music is one of those things that becomes a soundtrack to our lives.

Martin Scorsese

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

Alex Turner

I just don't think I'm equipped to soundtrack the times. There might be someone out there who can do that, but I haven't cracked it.