Famous Quotes & Sayings

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

Martin Denny

Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone.

Doc Severinsen

Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Mike Gordon

Actually Fish and I had this side band that played a lot of Dead covers and stuff, called the Dangerous Grapes. Also Allmans, typical blues stuff.

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.

Steve Earle

Before, I recorded in specific blocks of time. That's changed. Now everything revolves around making music for me. And it feels good.

Richard Marx

Even if the record is really successful, it's not going to change my future as a producer; if it means recording another record, great.

Each member of the band has varied influences,and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.

Matthew Sweet

First off, I don't want anyone to think I'm this huge thing in Japan. Every group from here that's made any records over any length of time - even indie bands - have a Cheap Trick effect in Japan.

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.

Charlie Hunter

Everything we did, we did live - and then Bobby took it home and chopped it up and edited it. Which is pretty much what they did with every jazz record you've ever heard.

Joe Henderson

The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.

Sheryl Crow

There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.

Stone Gossard

There's no getting around the fact that Eddie is the man. As far as emotional and spiritual energy goes, he IS the leader of this band.

Norah Jones

You gotta remember, I'm 24 years old. Who knows if I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing? But yeah, I'd like to rock out some day!

Tre Cool

You gotta play for as many people as you can. It's, like, if someone wants to see you, and they, you know, can't, then that's lame.

Robert Goulet

You have to remember, I didn't want this life.