Famous Quotes & Sayings

Merle Haggard

And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13.

Merle Haggard

No, I had a back injury early on in my life.

Method Man

Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there.

Method Man

We just wanna see where we stand at right now with our fans.

Method Man

So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught.

Method Man

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.

Merle Shain

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Merle Shain

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

Ike Turner

We're having time to give the younger generation today inspiration. Regardless of the obstacles that you have to overcome, how you can make it?

Laurie Anderson

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people.

Laurie Anderson

One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.

Kim Deal

I like the club. It looks nice with all the tables out. They were freaking out, the Gilly's people.

Kim Deal

It's like they had a backlash the first 11 years. I think the reason why it always seems like there's a backlash is because when bands are unknown, they only get written about by fans.

Kim Deal

Bob summed it up best when he was on his knees at the end of the night saying, 'Don't trust in Guided By Voices.' You were there; was the show awful or something? I know it was sloppy, but they're not really that tight anyway, but was it embarrassing, was it sad?

Kristin Hersh

The songs become the show, which is how it should be.

Krist Novoselic

I don't know about the time those songs were written. But he was jamming with someone in Colorado or San Francisco, and I'm sure he was working on the lyrics right up to the show because they were really relevant for the situation.

Kerry King

Well, to be honest with you, yes there is and there is not. But as I am a fan of this kind of music as well as the rest of the guys naturally are - and being a fan, we kind of get pleased by our music as fans and as being in SLAYER.

Kerry King

It's a new perspective where I got a role in and they are just spewed out of my mouth.

Kerry King

I used the dictionary very minimally and I just wrote how I speak. And I speak very hateful manner usually. I constantly did that because I think the fans would get more out of it if they understood exactly what I'm saying - exactly where I'm coming from.

Kerry King

You kind of have to become a song so to speak and we wanted to make sure that Tom did them with the best abilities he had and captured all that what the song is all about.

Kerry King

When we finally got to play that and we had a great show there, well I can tell it was pretty awesome. Y'know, we probably did bigger festivals since then; we probably headlined bigger festivals since then, but I will always remember that.

Julianne Moore

I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

Gary Allan

I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.

Levon Helm

Don't we all want what's best for each other?

Levon Helm

We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.

Words cannot express how proud I am to be carrying the Olympic Torch for my home, New York, New York - the greatest city in the world.

Kathy Mattea

Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed.

Kathy Mattea

What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.

Chad Hugo

When I made it, I still didn't wave the flag and say, Yeah go Asian people. I do want people to know that about me, but I always felt like at least musically, let me just do what I do and be the best at it. Which is what I'm doing right now.

You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.

No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.

I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at the graves of the great you dream of a coming country, where your proudest hopes shall be dimmed forever.

The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made.