Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bubba Sparxxx

But then again in the East Coast, I think, Tupac, inspired everybody on the East Coast, everybody down south, everybody in the West Coast you know what sayin'.

Bubba Sparxxx

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

Otis Williams

We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

Ornette Coleman

I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.

Ornette Coleman

I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.

Ornette Coleman

Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.

Ornette Coleman

I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.

Ornette Coleman

It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense.

Ornette Coleman

Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'

Oscar Hammerstein II

The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.

Oscar Hammerstein II

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

Fred Durst

I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand.

Ace Frehley

The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.

Ace Frehley

I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.

Eden Ahbez

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.

Ani Difranco

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

Garth Brooks

Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

Garth Brooks

You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.

Glenn Danzig

Yeah, now we publish whenever we feel like it.

Glenn Danzig

We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books.

Glenn Danzig

It's not like that anymore really, but back in the day, nobody would let the Misfits open up for them, not the Ramones, not the Cramps, nobody.

Glenn Danzig

I was bringing my attitude as a regular person 'cause this is my attitude.

Glenn Danzig

We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now.

George Duke

Frank liked me because I went nuts on the piano using feet, head, whatever I could find to bang on the piano.

George Duke

I'm planning a different show, though for obvious reasons some of the material will be the same, and of course I will perform material from the new CD.

George Duke

We're performing several shows in the Canary Islands.

George Duke

At the same time, I definitely want to expand my fan base but not at the expense of prostituting my music or heart.

George Morgan

Is Abundant Success in all his honest undertakings.

George Morgan

For my own part I continue of the same Disposition.

Gary Burton

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

Gene Clark

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

Bill Haley

We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.

Jimmy Carl Black

There are many old fans that come to see me play and a lot of his younger fans that have gotten into the old recordings of the M.O.I.