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.

David Allen

You can do anything, not everything

Mark Cuban

If I can do it, you can do it.

Betty Cuthbert

I don't concentrate on things I can't do. I do what I can do.

Edwin Land

Don't do anything that someone else can do.

Ram Dass

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

Craig McCracken

Theres a lot you can do without words.

Anthony de Mello

There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.

Caroline Wozniacki

I do my best, and that's all I can do.

Mark Victor Hansen

You can do a lot more good with money than without it.

Charles Spurgeon

I can find ten more who will die for the Bible for every one who will actually read it.

Kurt Vonnegut

I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously.

Cat Deeley

I can't dance at all by myself.

Bob Saget

Nobody can tell me what I can or can't do, except they can.

Bette Midler

Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

Deborah Smith

What do you call love, then?" Someone I can't live without.

Charlotte Rampling

I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.

Charlie Watts

I never weigh myself. But if I put my trousers on and they don't do up, then I don't eat until I can.

Bill Johnson

I can't afford to have thoughts in my head about me that God doesn't have in His.