Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paula Abdul

Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?

Paula Abdul

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.

Peter Buck

We're the acceptable edge of the unacceptable stuff.

Pat Boone

We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now.

Pat Boone

In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

Pat Benatar

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

Paul Butterfield

I think I'm better than all the people who are trying to reform me.

Paul Butterfield

I guess if you stay around long enough, they can't get rid of you.

Patsy Cline

I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again!

Patsy Cline

I'm gonna walk a little bit of dog.

Patsy Cline

I'm at that point again where it don't matter where he is to me anymore.

Patsy Cline

I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage.

Patsy Cline

I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.

Martha Reeves

A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit.

Stan Getz

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

Stan Getz

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

Stone Gossard

But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

The boys on Pennsylvania Avenue have convinced a whole lot of the public that What's His Whiskers had something to do with 9/11. Stay tuned.

Dwight Yoakam

A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

Mickey Gilley

Back then I thought if you cut a record, you were automatically a star.

Jon Crosby

Back then, I remember there was a lot of alternative pop going on - that slow, weak, kind of apathetic independent rock stuff, but that's gone now.

Lionel Hampton

That was a big deal at the time, because no blacks were integrated with whites in anything - not in sports, basketball, football, nothing.

Shannon Hoon

That's when I realize that the people who come to the shows, that's their role... to help us understand why we enjoy doing this sometimes.

Steve Forbert

That to me is the fun of the solo thing - it's so flexible. I can go way beyond taking requests. You just play the evening. And that's fun.

Joe Henderson

That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.

Rita Coolidge

That's why Peggy remained so important to me. I could listen to any one of the hundreds of songs I have by her, and they're just fabulous.

Joe Henderson

That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.

Ornette Coleman

Those things are the results of what people see and hear that you do. But the human beings themselves are living on a multiple level.

Kerry King

This was the first time I lived there for 3 months; I became a Canadian for 3 months so to speak. Now Vancouver is like my second home.

Danny Elfman

You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff.

Jewel

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.