Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juliana Hatfield

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

Cab Calloway

Well, he didn't have much of a conversation with me. Not that I can remember. I wasn't used to him. That's about all. I don't know. No conversation.

Sammy Hagar

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

Gavin DeGraw

To me, all I ever want to do is play, and nothing else ever crossed my mind concerning a career. Just playing. Only the execution of the songs.

Philip Emeagwali

The reason is that the Patent and Trademark Office can deny patents to inventors that publicly provided details of their invention.

Gary Cherone

There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.

Joe Henderson

The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve.

Josh Homme

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

Ray Brown

We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time.

Santiago Durango

We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play.

Hasil Adkins

When I was young there was a bunch of girls that was really scared and that's why I made these songs and I would love to scare them.

Chris Frantz

When I was in college, I studied painting. I thought, I'll do this rock 'n' roll thing for a few years. But I just haven't done that well enough yet.

Chad Hugo

When I was growing up, there were parties that I went to that were mostly Filipinos and maybe a couple of black guys, but we liked all types of music.

Gavin DeGraw

When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.

Art Garfunkel

When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.

Kristin Hersh

When Nirvana was selling records they dangled this carrot in front of underground bands' noses saying well you can be good and a millionaire.

Beyonce Knowles

We're negotiating solo projects for all three of us. They're all going to come out at the same time.

Juliana Hatfield

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

Chuck Todd

We didn't get here overnight, we're not going to change it overnight. We at least want to make inquiries.

Leo Kottke

We had a day off here yesterday and I just sat in my room and played.

Clarence Williams

We believe our music is our ministry and we love to spread it everywhere we go.

Kenny Hickey

We basically believe in nature more than anything else; that's why the new album, October Rust, has a strong pagan element to it.

Janis Ian

To those of us who know the pain, Of valentines that never came, And those whose names were never called, When choosing sides for basketball.

Jeff Ament

We opened for Black Flag, and none of the bands had dressing rooms, but Henry Rollins had his own. He had struck me as different from that.

Rita Coolidge

The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.

Robert Goulet

I like being on this stage because it keeps me thinking.

Robert Goulet

You open the show with a bang, then don't come back on for 45 minutes.

Robert Goulet

Why stop now when I'm just getting the hang of it?

Robert Goulet

Hey, I've been doing what I do for a long time, my friend.

Quincy Jones

Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?

Peter Criss

We were sharing a bottle of cheap sherry wine to get warm. Now I have this great house away from everything in New York, I've got my own little world.

Joanna Newsom

Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own.

Joshua Homme

Well, when you're just living your life and not watching anyone else's, you write about your thing and hopefully it's something people can latch onto.