Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Chilton

When the Box Tops first started out, I couldn't play guitar much at all. Only after we had our first hit records did I start playing.

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?

Philip Emeagwali

The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.

Susanna Hoffs

That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.

Lindsey Buckingham

The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.

Bing Crosby

That was a great game of golf, fellas.

Danny Elfman

That still has to be there. And so, it's kind of an interesting question you brought up. Because, on the one hand, yeah, it'd be lovely. I certainly don't see that happening. In fact, I see the opposite happening.

Vince Gill

That's the one thing that is really timeless is the songs. The artistry, the popularity of the artistry, that's going to come and go.

Herb Alpert

I was obligated to do a bunch of concerts and a television show, but something in my stomach was telling me this wasn't what I wanted to do.

Marty Robbins

I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.

Marty Robbins

I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.

Jermaine Dupri

We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum.

Zakk Wylde

The way I look at it you can always get better.

Victor Borge

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

John Paul Stevens

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

Trevor Dunn

Well, musicians everywhere make up a small part of the population, so incest is to be expected.

Grandmaster Flash

Unfortunately we are arguing amongst each other so much when the bottom line is we don't own anything. We are offspring to a record label owner.

Artie Shaw

You have no idea of the people I didn't marry.

Bootsy Collins

We were just so happy to be playing with James Brown. We wouldn't have dared asked for any writer's credits, we didn't know anything about that.

Don Ellis

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.

Marie Osmond

You know, you don't work 30 something years in this business without knowing how to push yourself. So, I just kept pushing myself and pushing myself. The other thing that happens is when your hormones get out of whack your emotions come up.

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.

Joe Henderson

Our bond is our shared status as retired racers. Before joining my family, he had a brief professional career - on the greyhound track.

Mose Allison

Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people.

Arto Lindsay

Playing with Kip I definitely learned a lot playing with these incredible guys and hearing them.

Leonard Rose

Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire.

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.