Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Jackson

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

Bruno Schulz

And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums.

Hank Williams

We've all kinds of kinds of hells and damns in country. But we don't have that other. We haven't progressed that far yet or degenerated. Who knows? . . . There are a few that are trying it. It's true. Some of these guys say it 500 times. I said (to Kid Rock), "how many times do you say it on an album -- 500 times? He just has that little grin.

Patrick Keeler

We started off making a full album with Brendan in his studio in Detroit and had nine or 10 songs done, then he got busy with his own record and we started talking to Jack and Meg about touring together. So we decided to do something for the road, and it turned out that the five completed songs made a kind of cool record, with this dreamier, darker mood than some of our other stuff.

William Boyce

Where should that album be? Should it be anywhere other than with the family? Is there any sensible reason for it not being with them?

Nayvadius Cash

Big Rube was on my first album and some of my mixtapes. His words are so powerful. I want to speak every word he says into existence. I wanna be a part of that! I wanna be a part of greatness. His wordplay is great to me.

Les Baxter

I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.

Les Baxter

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.

Billy Joel

It feels great to have a #1 album.

John Wright

The people who enjoy classical music, opera, even classical ballet, would come to classical theatre if it were well-acted and imaginatively presented.

W. Hull

We still see the dominance of rap, R&B, alternative punk, and pop. But we are definitely seeing growth in jazz and classical music.

Todd Apo

What the public wasn't envisioning was a swim through, swim with the dolphins kind of thing. They were looking for a truer aquarium, so the plan has developed into a classic aquarium with of course interactive features.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We want people to know that classical music is for everyone. A parent or kid might be terrified of this music, but after they come to us, they'll never be scared of classical music again.

Charlotte Bronte

Reader, I married him.

Charlaine Harris

Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.

M. H. Abrams

Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

Lionel Richie

It was very interesting in my world, because I grew up as a fan and I did not know that there was a thing called R&B, pop, country, classical - I just knew that I loved music.

Andre Holland

When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended into film.

Kate Winslet

I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff - in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'

Pat Collins

Signing Neil Diamond was a watershed moment for us, ... We invested to make this happen. And it's been a strategy that's worked for us.

Ron Gibson

Since we start in the afternoon, we will go into the evening. And this is the first time that the public has had an opportunity even to be in Diamond Head at night.

Nicky Oppenheimer

One likes at the point of production to realize the maximum value, and diamond producers are no different.

Waris Ahluwalia

I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.

Waris Ahluwalia

I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love.

Crystal Bowersox

For me, marriage is about love, not paperwork. I've never been the kid who dreamed of the big white dress, the long veil, the fancy diamond ring.

Peter Singer

Diamonds have an image of purity and light. They are given as a pledge of love and worn as a symbol of commitment.

John Chaney

What I kept pressing upon them is one of the greatest gems there is a diamond. A diamond, whether it's man-made or comes from coal, is a result of pressure. I wanted them to understand the more pressure is put on you, the more of a diamond you can become.

Byron Katie

Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.

Kathi Glist

We approached the Hilton. We were looking for a nice, intimate venue, an intimate place. It was our first choice.

bell hooks

Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family context and in all other intimate relationships. It is that political movement which most radically addresses the person – the personal – citing the need for the transformation of self, of relationships, so that we might be better able to act in a revolutionary manner, challenging and resisting domination, transforming the world outside the self.

Blake Shelton

There's something actually more intimidating about playing a small, intimate room. Your mistakes are that much more under the microscope.

A. B. Yehoshua

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Carroll Quigley

A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

Corey Reynolds

Theres a subtleness to camera work. You can really create intimate moments on camera, and sometimes that requires a little more precision from an actor because you have to pull people in as opposed to throwing it to them.

Deepak Chopra

The body and mind are one. When the intimate relationship between mind and body is disrupted, aging and entropy accelerate. Restoring mind/body integration brings about renewal. Through conscious breathing and movement techniques, you can renew the body/mind and reverse the aging process.

Theo James

I find sharing intimate details with people that you don't know an interesting concept. I like to keep some things to myself.

Tamora Pierce

Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.

Dean Thomas

Neil has had a scan and we are just awaiting the results but he could be out for quite a while.

Peter Lawwell

Neil has apologised and we know that his reaction was wrong.

Hector Elizondo

I was working for Neil Simon on Broadway.

Carolina Herrera

Any business is the same in the beginning because nobody knows where it's going to ride.

Jim Calhoun

We have no one like Brandon Roy. Nobody does.

Pete Summerbell

We got to the state championship game. Nobody can take that away from us.

Bobby Cox

With two outs and nobody on you feel like you're going to win a ballgame, ... We just did not get big hits.

Andre Cook

We're just here to play basketball. When we were 2-5, nobody was protesting, so that's just how it is.

Rick Cornett

We're really cornered. Nobody wants our season to end in three games. We just have to keep working.

Romeo Miller

I feel nobody has limits. It's all in your head. If you have a big dream, go after it and go get it.

Rory Bremner

I don't have olive skin. Nobody could tell from my skin that I'm Mediterranean. I'm quite fair, and I do burn easily.

Manny Diaz

The process is ongoing, nobody has pulled the plug,

Michael Brown

We're going to need everything that we can possibly muster, not only in this state and in the region, but the nation, to respond to this event.

Bernard Boudreaux

LSU did everything it possibly could to accommodate the state of Louisiana, the Saints and the NFL.

Kristin Davis

Personally, I don't think we could do such a show if we didn't get along. The subtext of all this is that we're women in a show so we can't possibly get along. It's not like they write about The Sopranos like that.

Lilly Singh

I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

Ian Mckellen

I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.

Anna Paquin

Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with.

Howard Clark

My first thought was that she could have possibly been dead.

Hiroshi Kamide

No one is seriously thinking a spring release is realistic any more. If I were Sony, I wouldn't be that worried about releasing as soon as I possibly could.

Pat Camden

We did everything we possibly could to protect her.

Etta James

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.

Todd Rundgren

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Neil Innes

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

Anna Chlumsky

There are songs where no matter how much you know you shouldn't - like the Ying Yang Twins' 'Shake' - I'll be in a dress, and I'll krump to it. It's horrible!

Gene Ween

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

Valerie June

I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

Kate Micucci

My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

Lucinda Williams

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Bob Weir

Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.

Casey Abrams

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

Bob Mould

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

Elizabeth Olsen

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

Chad Smith

Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.

Cher Lloyd

I'm very opinionated and I have a lot of things to say. Sometimes I sound a bit like a willy.

Charles Ives

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

Bob Black

Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.

Bill Laswell

Sound comes out of a life experience.

Beth Gibbons

Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

Ludivine Sagnier

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

Lisa Cholodenko

I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.

Eric Schmidt

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

Victoria Justice

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

Wole Soyinka

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.

F. Sionil Jose

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

Errol Morris

I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.

Ferran Adria

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

Lyle Lovett

I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.