Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Floyd

Oh yeah, I know Johnnie Bassett. We were part of that whole thing.

Emmylou Harris

I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.

Dick Dale

I told them if were going to do it were going to do it right, I'm not leaving 'til it's done. My wife, child and I slept in the studio. We cut these raw.

Jewel

You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.

June Carter Cash

I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.

June Carter Cash

We wanted to slow down. But one would let us.

June Carter Cash

It depends on how Johnny's feeling... If we go back on the road, we will go together. I'll go where he goes, and he'll go where I go.

June Carter Cash

Every dog has his day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weak-end.

June Carter Cash

After you've listened to it, you'll feel like you know us a little bit better.

June Carter Cash

This is the bunch of songs I did first, and it's just the type of thing I do. I am a Carter Family girl, so the record is book-ended with Carter Family songs.

Jeff Buckley

To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run.

Jeff Buckley

All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.

Jermaine Jackson

We've always had a love for other places outside the US. I would be right with him. Now that Michael's been vindicated, we all have to be careful... you never know what someone's plotting and planning.

Luther Campbell

People expect me to be with some stripper... That's just the kind of woman I work with.

Luther Allison

I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen.

Luther Allison

But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour.

Luther Allison

But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?

Luther Allison

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.

Luther Allison

Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.

Luther Allison

And I can do the rock clubs if I have to.

Luther Allison

I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.

Luther Allison

But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job.

Luther Allison

I focused on how these people became how they were.

Luther Allison

So I cut out all the drinkin' and hangin' out and stuff like that early on.

Luther Allison

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

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.