Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby McFerrin

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.

Bobby Sherman

I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter.

Bobby Sherman

Yes, I'm supposed to go back to New York to do Geraldo, and we're going to be doing The Tonight Show.

Bobby Sherman

Unfortunately I'm not a smoker, so cigars have never been a part of my agenda.

Al Hirt

When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die before he did.

Alex Chilton

It's been like a bad dream I never woke from.

Alex Chilton

I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

Steve Swallow

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

Stephen Stills

I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away.

Stephen Malkmus

We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there.

Herbie Hancock

See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.

Herbie Hancock

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

Harry Connick, Jr.

The two are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff.

Gregg Allman

The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece.

Irving Berlin

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

Irving Berlin

I got lost but look what I found.

I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

Edgar Winter

I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.

Edgar Winter

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

Edgar Winter

I just want to thank all my fans for their loyalty and support-for coming out to the shows and buying the CDs.

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.