Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eydie Gorme

So many have been growing with us from the very beginning of our career. Others are brand new to us.

Eydie Gorme

We never heard of tape. Everything was live, live, live.

Eric Wilson

Even a lot of kids who are gifted can be kids who feel like wimps or nerds.

Eric Wilson

I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who write for children can remember their own childhoods vividly and I can remember my childhood very vividly.

Earl Scruggs

That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.

Earl Scruggs

I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.

Earl Scruggs

She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.

Eddie Floyd

I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

Eddie Floyd

Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.

Eddie Floyd

Oh yeah, I know Johnnie Bassett. We were part of that whole thing.

Emmylou Harris

I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.

Kathy Mattea

Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed.

Kathy Mattea

What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.

Chad Hugo

When I made it, I still didn't wave the flag and say, Yeah go Asian people. I do want people to know that about me, but I always felt like at least musically, let me just do what I do and be the best at it. Which is what I'm doing right now.

You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.

No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.

I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at the graves of the great you dream of a coming country, where your proudest hopes shall be dimmed forever.

The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made.

I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks.

The future is wider than vision, and has no end.

I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.

The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.

Donald Fagen

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!

Tom Araya

Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse!

Martin Denny

Oh yeah, that was the thing to do at that time. This was before the new wave of bebop started.

Janet Jackson

So many women are talking about how they could fall in love with Sherman, and he's someone I could fall in love with because it's about what's inside.

Artie Shaw

Shoot for the moon - if you miss you'll end up in the stars.

Joe Henderson

Since Buzz joined my runs, I too have run more laps - slower and bigger ones than he might otherwise do, but laps just the same.

Peabo Bryson

She and Celine Dion are my two favorite people in the entire world. I feel similar ways about Celine. I love her energy. I love being around her.

Bootsy Collins

Since Warner Brothers, back in the day, I hadn't never really had nobody that I think that was there, that I kinda felt was working like my right arm.