Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stewart Copeland

And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio.

Vance Havner

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, ''Shake well before using.'' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Danny Elfman

Sometimes you get real close, sometimes you don't. Sometimes they drive you crazy. I think every composer does that. That's a big part of the job.

Matt Cameron

Sometimes when you hear recordings of live shows it just doesn't even capture what you're experiencing. So, I think that's more for the fans.

Jon Crosby

Sometimes music is an escape from things, from the way you feel. It's cathartic. Dwelling in the negativity all the time, it starts to not be real.

Cecil Taylor

See I'm not interested in appealing to the larger masses of people, because what the White man shows us is that he will do anything to make money.

Bootsy Collins

Coming from the James Brown school, I had learned a lot of stuff before I got with George. It was from one extreme to the other.

Discharge is my first. I love Black Flag and all those guys. And Ramones, of course. And then I like Blondie,.. a little lighter.

Digital technology development has reached warp speed in the last few years.

Contempt for the world is what allows me to continue living in it.

Kurt Cobain

Don't expect me to cry for all the reasons you had to die.

Mike Gordon

Elektra has no control over the live show, at least.

Tom Chapin

Early on I had to decide whether this guitar was a beautiful museum piece or a working axe, and I decided that I wanted to play it, not curate it.

Stone Gossard

There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits.

Kenny Hickey

There's always been an overwhelming feeling that everything is going to fall apart in this band any minute and that was from day one, for 10 years.

Mose Allison

There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.

Louis Armstrong

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Jon Crosby

At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it's not really my bag. I've been listening to the radio since we've been touring the past month, because we don't get it most of the time.

Jimmy Chamberlin

At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started enjoying it and being able to say things lyrically that I would normally have to say musically.

All my life it has been a pleasure to show its beauties, its marvels and its possibilities to those who, under my guidance, saw it for the first time.

Lou Gramm

About a year ago, I began to have creative breakthroughs both rhythmically and melodically. Ideas have been coming to me at a greater rate.

Jessi Colter

It's just what it is. It just all happened in my stride.

Kitty Carlisle

They were make believe, and they were the world that people didn't have, but that they wanted, and that's why they were so popular.

Daryl Hall

This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it's been identified, I'm looking forward to a complete, quick recovery and to get back out there with John as soon as possible.

Santiago Durango

They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there.

Joe Henderson

They trained mostly by time periods, checking their pace for known distance only on special occasions.

Joanna Newsom

It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.

Mike Gordon

It's not often that we learn cover songs.

Kristin Hersh

It's not like touring with a rock band. I don't have any friends or equipment of volume on stage, just me. Just me and the chair.

James Iha

It's not like that often, I mean, I suppose out of a ratio of 10 fans maybe like 1 or 2 of 'em might be Asian, and maybe every second or third time they might bring up something that they're Asian and I'm Asian.

Grandmaster Flash

For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times.

Adrian Belew

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.

Bobby Sherman

For a good five years I didn't know where home was, I barely had very much time to think about anything but doing what I was doing.