Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gloria Estefan

My mom was a source of strength.She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.

Janet Jackson

My mother is very strong. Aside from wanting her beauty and her heart, I really wanted her strength. And I've always thought I don't have it.

Matt Cameron

Many drummers who get into that style of playing and writing often end up being known for only their technique and not their feel.

Billy Higgins

Look, jazz has always had, because of its origins, that's the only reason. It's the only reason it's like that. Where it came from. It's not accepted.

Billy Eckstine

Mary Lou is a beautiful person. She's from my hometown, Pittsburgh. Mary Lou I love very much. She's a very accomplished musician.

Aimee Mann

Listen, I'm out of this system, man, I'm out... I'm doing better than ever. I couldn't be more happy.

Ike Turner

Little Richard did the intro to my book.

Rick Derringer

I was the kind of guitar player who had grown up when electric guitar playing was still in its infancy, so I first learned how to play rhythm.

Ike Turner

I was familiar with Stevie Ray Vaughan because I listened to him. He played a lot of copies off of different guys' styles and stuff.

Eydie Gorme

I was in Las Vegas playing at the original El Rancho Vegas, with Joe E. Louis, who took me there as a supporting act. And he came to see me.

Wayne Coyne

I was in England and I know Cat Stevens told some journalists that he loved our song and was honoured that people compared our song to his song.

Alan Price

I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.

Vince Gill

I still have to play the solos and do the things that I do on my records, I still put in the work. I think that it's more lonely, and it's hard.

Vanessa Carlton

I still have my hands and I can still write songs. I still have my body and I can still dance. I owe God so much because things are going so well.

Joshua Homme

I think our thing is that you commit to go in and try to sound as original as possible. We just do our own thing because that's the obligation!

Mike Gordon

I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too.

Jimmy Carl Black

I think he might miss everything he used to do but I don't know that for a fact. His wife is probably the only one that does. A sweet lady.

Norman Granz

I still travel a great deal. I go to the States, not for too long periods, but I make frequent trips because of my management problems with Ella.

Leo Kottke

It depends on the time of the year and who I've been talking to, I try to put people in the studio I like.

Jon Crosby

It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do.

Jon Crosby

I think it would be very scary and very confusing if I didn't understand where people are coming from, but I've felt the exact same way for so many other bands, growing up. It's not really a big deal.

Fantasia Barrino

I thought if I was going to go into the competition, I was going to go in the same way I was going to go out. I was just going to be me.

Jon Crosby

I thought I wanted to give it a rest on this record, or bring it back in a different way, and I consciously decided to take a rest on the samples.

Chubby Checker

Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears all the rappers, they're doing my dances and they're making billions doing my dances. When they do that little thing they do with their hands that's The Fly and The Pony.

Jon Crosby

I'm still open minded but I haven't really studied too much in the past two years. That hasn't been really where my mind has been.

Adrian Belew

I'm slowly designing my second Experimental Guitar record. And next year I will release DUST, the giant rarities collection mentioned earlier.

George Duke

Maybe I shouldn't say this, but I actually had no central idea going into this album, I just wanted to record material that I felt good about.

Freddie Hubbard

Man, they gave me a key to the city. Can you imagine going back to Indiana and getting the key to the city? So that made me feel pretty good.

Ornette Coleman

I think those things that are in food are all chemically disastrous when they are placed in the wrong contents where human beings are exposed to it.

I think we all need to be a part of the suffering and the solution. We need more humility as Americans.

Gary Cherone

It is not as easy as one would think finding the right people. Coming out of Van Halen, I knew I didn't want to put a three-piece together.

Gerry Beckley

It is not that there wasn't an incredible amount of history made that was very public knowledge for those seven years which was the bulk of the hits.

Jeff Tweedy

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.