Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Allan Coe

Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is.

David Lee Roth

It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!

David Lee Roth

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.

People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

Dick Dale

I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.

Donnie Iris

I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.

Donnie Iris

I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.

Donnie Iris

I've always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it's the type of thing I could get used to.

David Johansen

We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant.

Charlie Haden

Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.

Charlie Haden

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy.

Charlie Haden

I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.

Charlie Haden

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

Charlie Haden

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

Chick Corea

I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.

Chick Corea

Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.

Chick Corea

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

Chet Atkins

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Clarence Clemons

There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.

Danny Elfman

But, really it was finding a kind of a vibe and letting that vibe carry the movie. And did I bring anything new to the mix? I don't know.

Vanessa Carlton

But my morn was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.

Buddy Guy

But I was denied a record contract for 15 years, so I'm not going to be too picky about what I do. I don't have the juice to say no too many times.

Pete Fountain

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.

Peter Criss

We're playing the Superbowl this year, we're opening up before the coins drop.

Peter Criss

Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back.

Peter Criss

We're really in control; that's the difference. We were out of control then.

Peter Criss

Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.

Peter Criss

As busy as I claim to be, I've still got the greatest job in the world.

Peter Criss

We're much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity.

Paul Simon

A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.