Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lionel Hampton

Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.

Lionel Hampton

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

Anthony Kiedis

We're able to breathe in each other's space at this point, and it was never really like that before, even when we were hyper best friends.

Matt Cameron

I ain't 27 anymore, and boy, does my body let me know it occasionally, but it is something I have been able to manage over time.

Bill Kreutzmann

I actually heard from some deadheads that we had the night. They went over to the Kaiser and then they left and came to our gig. It was sweet.

Charlie Haden

I always approach music by thinking about the person I'm playing with and listening to the way they play and trying to enhance whatever is going on.

Solomon Burke

He knows what He's doing, and sometimes we project what we can't see, but only God knows what's going to happen, and He knows the best. For all of us.

Grandmaster Flash

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.

Grandmaster Flash

So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they're doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that?

Grandmaster Flash

I think what's happening here is, there's a group or maybe one person who is saying this is gonna be the definition and this is what we want to get the kids to do now.

Grandmaster Flash

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.

Grandmaster Flash

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.

Grandmaster Flash

Disco B still rolls with me now. He's still doing his thing. He does clubs in different places. He was very instrumental in helping me perfect my craft.

Grandmaster Flash

We can even sing off key, but if it's produced properly it can be a hit.

Grandmaster Flash

I had love for Breakout; I had love for Bambaataa. I had love for Kool Herc.

Grandmaster Flash

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.

Grandmaster Flash

All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.

Grandmaster Flash

But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary.

Grandmaster Flash

Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.

Grandmaster Flash

The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on.

Grandmaster Flash

We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other.

Grandmaster Flash

For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me.

Grandmaster Flash

Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records.

Grandmaster Flash

As an individual I was known as the DJ or the mixer.

Grandmaster Flash

Normal kids in their teens want to go and date girls and do mischievous things, your hormones are jumping around, but I stayed in my bedroom in search of something.

Trevor Dunn

I love playing in Fantomas, which is very strict in terms of composition.

Trevor Dunn

NYC is chaotic. And I am attracted to chaos.

Jimmy Carl Black

I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.

Tracy Chapman

I would have liked to have had a little break after I made the record before I started this part of it, but it's best for me to get right into it.

John Fogerty

I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear.

Charlie Hunter

If we really wanted to be cool, and everyone in the world had Pro Tools, we could just put it up on the internet and everyone could make their own record out of it.

Glenn Danzig

I got tired of complaining about this or that so I just decided to amass, in my opinion, the best artists and some of the best writers.

Hasil Adkins

I got me girlfriend Hazel Jean, and I just like where I come from. But don't get me wrong, I love all the country, but I still love where I come from.