Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Sweet

Things are going to change in this business. Look at how well Bright Eyes has done on Saddle Creek. No one's done anything like that before.

Jewel

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

Les Claypool

The scene itself in San Francisco is just bizarre and non-existent for young bands and places to play... it's just so scattered now.

Billy Sheehan

I've seen it happen when the first rock bands played in the 60s, and they played simple music, and got more complicated and complex as they moved on.

Merle Haggard

I've smoked Camels for more years than I care to mention, but I haven't had a cigarette since '91. I haven't had a joint since '95.

Lee Konitz

I've played with not such great players, and found that I was inspired to play very well. I welcome every one of those opportunities.

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.

Vanilla Ice

With radio limitations as far as length of songs and content, sometimes if you are being conscious of that then that effects the outcome of a song.

Peter Criss

You guys rock, I mean, come on... You really show your appreciation big-time right in your face, and that's what KISS has always been about.

Della Reese

What was so upsetting was I didn't really know anything about diabetes except that Ella Fitzgerald lost her legs and later died from it.

Anita Hill

What ultimately kept me sane was that so much of what was going on was insane. What I had done was the honest, the right and the correct thing to do.

Danny Elfman

What Brian laid out was something that felt really uneasy and bordering on feeling like I was on a boat or something. So I went with that feeling.

Jeff Ament

We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.

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.

Mike Gordon

There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves.

Ruth Warrick

There's no way I could look like this without them.

Garth Brooks

The tour, as wild and as loud as it was in the first, would gain momentum as the years went by, because I would gain more confidence back.

Leif Garrett

I smoked heroin for six years. Kicking the habit? Hard wasn't the word for it.

Lee Konitz

I stand back, sometimes, behind the rhythm section, so I don't physically look like the leader. I don't like that concept too much.

Ronnie Hawkins

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

Steve Cropper

I started getting calls to do sessions as a guitarist. I never thought I was that good of a guitarist, though I knew I could hold my own.

Jimmy Carl Black

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

Chico Hamilton

I've changed my drumming considerably. I've had to, in order to play this way, in order to have a fulfilment with regard to the overall sound.

Jewel

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

Trace Adkins

I've been in that situation many times, telling people why country music is important, and this is my chance to stand up for this genre.

Kristin Hersh

We were raised to be here now, and to be compassionate, and that's all we took from it, too. Neither of us became particularly groovy people.

Ronnie Hawkins

We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically.

Herb Alpert

We were like a trial for the digital process, and I found that in that particular timeframe, there were too many problems with it.

Jewel

What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.

Sheryl Crow

When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire.

Nikki Sixx

We go to do the Billboard Music Awards to be a presenter, and we walk on stage, and we get a standing ovation from the industry.

Chico Hamilton

We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.

Alice Cooper

We identified with Frank. We were of course influenced - when everybody hears Zappa, they're influenced by him, just like The Beatles.