Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Daltrey

Monterey, I remember, but I seem to remember the Fillmore West, that we played the week before Monterey. That was much more memorable for me. The first time in San Francisco. They were good gigs.

Derek Bailey

I found that you couldn't use the same people anyway; there weren't that many people, so you'd be using the same ones over and over again.

Peter Gabriel

I love 5.1. Sometimes you can't squeeze everything in comfortably into a stereo picture. There is a lot more space in a 5.1 environment.

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.

Joss Stone

I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.

Derek Bailey

For me, playing is about playing with other people.

Derek Bailey

In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

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.

Deyon Pitter

My generation was taught to go to school, get an education, get a job and live happily ever after. Do you see the problem?

John Updike

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

P. J. O'Rourke

My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.

Jeremy Paxton

My generation have had it good, and I am really troubled by what we have done with it.

Lindsey Graham

If being intelligent, brilliant, a superb lawyer, the greatest legal mind of your generation and well qualified is not enough, what is?

Rocco Landesman

one of the most important American playwrights ever. I think his work is going to speak to generation after generation of theatergoers.

Patrick McGowan

We openly talk about wilderness in this administration. We are not scared of the word. We use it openly. And I think the next generation of users is going to come to Maine for wilderness experiences.

Karl Inderfurth

We have lost touch with a generation of Pakistani military leaders.

Vinod Khosla

You know, one of the great things about most renewable technologies - not every technology, but many of them - is the jobs have to be local. When you're talking about a power plant and power generation using solar thermal technology, the jobs will be where the plant is.

Dan Hawkins

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.

Tom Stoppard

When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.

Denis Law

There's no way Ryan Giggs is another George Best. He's another Ryan Giggs

William Bryan

Gigantic troubadour, speaking like a siege gun / Smashing Plymouth Rock with his boulders from the West.

Olly Murs

I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.

Vance Joy

When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emotional nerve, if I could ever recreate that for someone, that would be the ultimate goal.

Sarah McLachlan

The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from. I was in a band called the October Game, and we opened up for a Vancouver band.

Imelda May

I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this is but I love it!' I thought that was a nice compliment.

Gina Bellman

Some people think it's an easy gig working as an extra, but you often have to stay very concentrated for long stretches in challenging conditions.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.

Bill Maher

Donald Rumsfeld also lost his gig last week. When asked what his future plans are, Rumsfeld said, 'What's a plan?'

Bill Bailey

Live comedy's a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You're only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.

Dave Chappelle

Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.

Brian Molko

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

Nicholas Hoult

I'm not one of those people who sits around knowing all bands and going to gigs all the time.

Alex Turner

I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.

Amy Winehouse

Basically, I live to do gigs.

David Bowie

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

Jim King

Several of us are nervous about turning (a fund) over to another group.

Hannah Kearney

My first run was bad. Training between runs was bad. Waiting (for other competitors to finish) was the most nervous I've ever been in my life. I skied a slow, conservative run, but it was solid. It was really clean, and I think that's what won it for me.

Elena Dementieva

I just said to myself, She's just like you, you know, she can be nervous

Deepak Chopra

What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system.

Mike Conners

I was real nervous when he fouled out.

Chris Matthews

I was real nervous at the start, but I feel like I stepped up.

Mark Calcavecchia

I was so nervous out there on the fairway.

Nick Spano

I'm a little nervous since it's a new school and new surroundings, ... I'm more worried about classes.

Rod Stewart

I have never had such a nervous day in my life,

Arthur Vint

Now we have more recordings of us playing, which is great.

Thurston Moore

Recording tends to restrict too much experimentation, 'cause when you're making a record it's a part of you, for that time it's your whole fabric.

Asha Bhosle

Earlier, I know of instances where singers like Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar even stopped recording till they got their preparation right

Joshua Bell

I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry.

Herbie Hancock

I remember my very first recording. It was on a wire recorder, as the tape recording was only just out but too expensive.

Linda Ronstadt

The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because you want to keep fixing, fixing, fixing, you know?

Al Yankovic

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

J. J. Abrams

I love recording music.

Stephen Jones

You OK? You OK? A recording is made of a frightening telephone call.