Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mac Davis

I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.

George Duke

I think I made my mark playing instruments like the Minimoog, because I learnt how to make them talk; I learnt how to get the blues out of them.

Josh Homme

Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.

Travis Barker

We didn't hold ourselves to a standard that said we needed a certain type of song because that's the type we had on the last album.

Jeff Ament

We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute.

The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations.

There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.

Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

Glenn Frey

Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together.

Glenn Frey

It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.

Peter Criss

Bringing 3-D into the show is a first and we'll have the largest screens ever in history behind us on stage.

Philip Emeagwali

Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.

Ricky Skaggs

The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

Steve Albini

A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.

Jimi Hendrix

I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

Kurt Cobain

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Bob Dylan

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Cab Calloway

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

Jerry Harrison

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

Grandmaster Flash

Exactly, especially when you're talking about a music where you can do just about anything. We can talk about just about anything lyrically.

Mark McGrath

Every time you walk into a room, it's, like, is there a booger hanging out? Is there a wrinkle here, a gray hair there? It makes you psycho.

Connie Francis

He was right about country music. He used to listen to this disc jockey, Jerry Brenner in New York, who would play country music once a week.

Matt Cameron

I ain't 27 anymore, and boy, does my body let me know it occasionally, but it is something I have been able to manage over time.

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.