Famous Quotes & Sayings

Buck Owens

The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.

Buck Owens

And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for that.

Buck Owens

You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.

Bryan White

I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

Charlie Daniels

The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we've ever done. The music that I'm thinking about putting on our next album.

Charlie Daniels

I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can't do it the other way. That's how our record label came about.

Charlie Daniels

Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff that probably could have been called country music today, but would certainly have not have fit in at that time.

Chaka Khan

Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.

Chaka Khan

I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.

Chaka Khan

You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody.

Chaka Khan

To me, this degree was an acknowledgment of my work in music.

Edie Brickell

But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.

Edie Brickell

I have taken the marshmallows off the sweet potatoes, however. They would make a big pan of sweet potatoes and cover it with marshmallows. My kids would love it if I would do that for them!

Edie Brickell

And I was very comfortable with this band even when we disagreed. It takes a long time to feel comfortable enough to disagree with somebody. When everything happened, it just was really confusing. It's like our weaknesses were nurtured and brought out front by outsiders.

Edie Brickell

No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.

Freddie Hubbard

I'm going to Yoshi's. I'm taking a few gigs. I'm playing. I'm not going to play all the time. I'm going to take it easy and take it slow and warm up so I can come back.

Freddie Hubbard

Yes, I can play. I can play. I can't play as long as I did and as hard, but I don't think I have to.

Freddie Hubbard

I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something.

Freddie Hubbard

When I got started in New York, it wasn't like it is now. If you were different from Miles and Dizzy, it was very difficult to make gigs and make money with your own style.

Freddie Hubbard

Dizzy used to tell me that I am playing too hard. He used to say to not give everything. Miles used to tell me that too.

Freddie Hubbard

I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind.

Cher

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

Solomon Burke

We were grooving, at that point, in the same direction, but remember, Roy Hamilton and myself were going into a path and a direction that had no programming.

Solomon Burke

If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move.

Solomon Burke

But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do.

Solomon Burke

The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.

Solomon Burke

I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.

Solomon Burke

That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.

Solomon Burke

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

Solomon Burke

We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing.

Solomon Burke

We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else.

Solomon Burke

You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud.

Skitch Henderson

That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.