Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

Edgar Winter

I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.

Edgar Winter

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

Edgar Winter

I just want to thank all my fans for their loyalty and support-for coming out to the shows and buying the CDs.

Johnny Ramone

It was a job, and I was just doing my job.

Phil Harris

These records did make the charts somewhere at about number 150 out of 160 releases. I can remember that it made the top of the charts in Atlanta GA.

Steve Albini

These letters never have any term of expiration, so the band remain bound by the deal memo until a contract is signed, no matter how long that takes.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Jewel

The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.

James Smith

The three black graces, Law, Physic, and Divinity.

Julio Iglesias

The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I've showed them a certain respect for this career.

Otis Williams

The Tempts have always been known for great lead singers. Today we have three of the greatest leads in the proud history of the group.

Laurie Anderson

The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.

Isaac Hanson

The thing about us is, we're very eclectic; we end up with a lot of songs that have very different styles, very different stylistically.

Afrika Bambaataa

The thing about Hip Hop today and music in general is that the people who created it meaning Blacks and Latinos do not control it no more.

Jerry Harrison

The thing about being an artist is that if you put out a record and the record company drops the ball, you can be set back for years.

Joe Henderson

I've lived nearby since 1981 and probably have averaged one run a week there. That's more than 1000 repetitions, and I have yet to tire of this course.

Mickey Gilley

Ray Stevens also made a good success of it. He sold it, but financed the sale himself. Now, I just read where he's going to be back!

Joe Henderson

Ours is a life of constant reruns. We're always circling back to where we'd we started, then starting all over again. Even if we don't run extra laps that day, we surely will come back for more of the same another day soon.

Jeff Ament

People see Eddie for 20 seconds at the Grammys and think, Goddamn, he must be like this all the time. I feel sorry for his friends.

Joe Williams

People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.

Bruce Springsteen

People deserve. . . the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Don Ellis

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.

John Fahey

Oh, 1962. The music scene was so bad that several of us decided to come out to Berkeley and take over the folk music scene here.

Kerry King

Of course we are doing this primarily for ourselves, but I know our fans dig most of it, too.

Barry White

After reading the book, I hope young people will see how I changed my life and how it's up to them to make changes in their own lives to succeed.

Debbie Gibson

The music now is about my personal life, where I'm at as a 24-year-old young woman, so it's very honest and it's very pure and it's very emotional.

Tom Glazer

The Musicians was recorded as a quartet by Dinah Shore, Phil Harris, Tony Martin and Betty Hutton. It was not a hit; it came and went.

Chico Hamilton

Coming out of the big bands, I started accompanying, and I guess that is what led up to it. Because I learned quite a bit, by being an accompanist.

Duke Ellington

A problem is your chance to do your best.

Merle Haggard

And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything.

Charlie Hunter

And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.