Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muddy Waters

Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.

Muddy Waters

There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

Max Roach

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

Adrian Belew

The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other.

Jeff Ament

We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.

Scott Ian

We've always been a band that just did out own thing. We've never really set any goals, we just did what we wanted and set out to do.

Solomon Burke

We started the publicity, we started moving in the same direction with them, and then the devil came in and just turned that right around.

Les Baxter

I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.

Merle Haggard

And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13.

Merle Haggard

No, I had a back injury early on in my life.

Method Man

Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there.

Method Man

We just wanna see where we stand at right now with our fans.

Method Man

So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught.

Method Man

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.

Merle Shain

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Merle Shain

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

Jessi Colter

Waylon was such a great force in music.

James Hall

We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

Michelle Branch

I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least I'd know that I tried.

Michael Nesmith

There's a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It's very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but it's there to be seen.

Mike Curb

When I was lieutenant governor, Jerry Brown was governor and you might recall that he spent just about a year of my term out of the state.

Michael Bolton

When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian.

When it came to the music that we produced, I am pretty happy with what we did.

Jon Crosby

We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited.

Al Jardine

We're somehow confined to our name, the Beach Boys; it confines you to a certain image, but there's so much there that's so rich.

Garth Brooks

When we had hot lunch in elementary school, I liked those biscuits they served. You could smell them about an hour before lunch.

Grandmaster Flash

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.

Gary Cherone

We brought out the old catalog and the majority of the Van Halen fans did appreciate it, but in the end, they wanted their Dave.

Lindsey Buckingham

Working with the band, you're in a room with three other people and you're more verbal. It requires the other side of the brain.

Jerry Cantrell

Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way.

Jerry Cantrell

And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

Leo Kottke

There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it.

Leo Kottke

I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out.