Famous Quotes & Sayings

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Mickey Gilley

It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now.

Jermaine Dupri

It's one of the hardest feats in the music industry, maintaining and continuing to keep doing at the same pace for a lengthy amount of years.

Stephanie Mills

It's the best thing ever-I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.

Mike Gordon

The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that.

Deana Carter

I toured in Europe first, before I did ANY touring in the US. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

Taylor Dayne

I touched a lot of people internationally, and Rodney's a very smart business man, he knows you have to go for a broader and bigger audience.

Jakob Dylan

It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

Merrill Markoe

I, too, have never seen an episode of Moesha, and even more amazing, I have never even read a TV Guide description of an episode.

Kurtis Blow

I told them to wait... they did it without me, but they used my band Orange Krush. I was kinda mad so I said thats what I will do, start producing.

Evan Dando

Every three months I would give this person 100 grand I would have spent on coke, so when my music income ran out I still had $700,000.

Jeff Ament

Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

Mike Love

Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island, ... They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.

Jackie DeShannon

Every day I'm doing things, it's surprising to me, because this is about what following your passion does - it moves you, you don't move it.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

As the years of work passed at the Smithsonian as a scholar, I realized that Howard had trained me well for the work I wanted to do.

John Fahey

As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you.

Lee Konitz

As soon as I play full bodied, I block out the rest of the sound. I'm just looking for the right note to fit the chords I'm hearing.

George Duke

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.

Chico Hamilton

At Ronnie's, we had young kids who enjoyed it so much they came in every night. Something else - a lot of the old jazz diehards dug it, too.

Merrill Markoe

A few last men to beware: guys who won't remove their hats and sunglasses - they think you're too thick to notice the stuff they think they're hiding.

John Fogerty

The ones I have got great necks; of course, all of the Fenders from that era are incredible.

Stephen Stills

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there.

Pat Mastelotto

After I helped on P4 mixing and saw how things were being done I offered to take care of Project 3, and on it went from there. Plus I'm way cheap.

Jessi Colter

After I began writing, I thought, I'm on to something, but it's kind of radical and certainly very vulnerable and very different.

Joe Henderson

A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.

Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

LaToya Jackson

Subconsciously it was a test to see if my parents could love me as the woman I was now, not as the little girl they'd tried so hard to make.

Laurie Anderson

Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life.

Method Man

Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one.

Joe Henderson

Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily.

Grandmaster Flash

So what the owners see is that we are fighting amongst each other and causing controversy, but as long as it's selling records they don't care.

Josh Homme

So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.

Kerry King

So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me.