Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Jon Crosby

It doesn't really seem any different anywhere. I'd say it seems like we're biggest in Australia. It's just that we've always been this underground band and for some reason in the last month has been starting to go overground.

Kurtis Blow

Well I was always a hustler... I ran numbers; I wasn't a stick up kid, but I was a fence for them. I used to sell weed; and was kicked out of Music and Art for that.

Trevor Dunn

Well, I've never been to Japan so I couldn't say. I do know that we have a bit of a following there however.

Josh Homme

Well, I think what's most important is the idea of something.

Luther Allison

We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States.

Anita Hill

Well, they've caused me to realize that as an individual I have a lot of responsibility, certainly, but that now I have even more responsibility.

Barry Mann

We happened to start writing pop songs in a time when the old music business was beginning to fade and a new kind of music was emerging.

Jack Irons

We had all remained good friends, but musically Hillel felt he was growing in their direction and they were having more success than What Is This.

Chris Frantz

We have a large band with eight people.

Gavin DeGraw

We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.

John Lothrop Motley

With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.

Kristin Hersh

We just want to play music that's the best it can possibly be. So we let them play their own games and market it however they can.

Ruth Brown

We have paid a price to sing this music.

Laurie Anderson

You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?

Jon Fishman

Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.

Ronnie Hawkins

Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing for more than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.

Guy Forget

Well, Darrell is a stunning musician. I mean, he plays anything. The only thing I've never heard him play is a fiddle, and I bet he could.

Sam Rivers

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.

Mickey Gilley

Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day.

Chris Frantz

We have such a good band and we wanted to record while we were all still together, before anybody went off to work with some superstar, or whatever.