Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Cooper

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

Kurtis Blow

I used to date Latoya for awhile, I was a close freind of the family.

Mark Knopfler

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.

Herb Alpert

I never thought of myself as a trumpet player in the traditional sense: I never played in a big band... I didn't struggle the normal way.

Trevor Dunn

In fact, I try to embrace the music, personality, style, phrasing of other's depending on who I'm playing with. I try to reflect their music.

David Coe

In fact, if it had been up to me I would have had them take a black screen and drop in front of me on stage and just let the people hear the music.

I never try to be vulgar, but I do believe the memory will last until the next time... I mean you don't get it unless you bought a ticket.

Carl Wilson

I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.

Trevor Dunn

I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.

Jewel

I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn't good.

Lindsey Buckingham

I think now we're doing the best work we've ever done. Whether or not that's recognized yet is irrelevant to me. I know how I feel about it.

Jeff Tweedy

I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next.

Freddie Hubbard

I quite drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

Jello Biafra

I realized later on that a lot of times I'd go back to Colorado to hide from all the mayhem in San Francisco so I could get songs written.

Jim Messina

I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared.

John Abercrombie

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

Alice Cooper

City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.

Peabo Bryson

Being at Windham Hill now has made me more appreciative of the people who still believe in the things that I believe in, that are a part of me.

Bobby Sherman

Being involved with show business gave me a lot of experience in dealing with stress, which, in a way, prepared me for my career as a medic.

Mickey Gilley

I have the restaurant, too. I serve Southwest, barbecue.

Jimmy Carl Black

I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so.

Peter Criss

I haven't lost my temper in years, and I do have a bad temper. I was doing "Beth" and this laser was hitting me, it was really making me nuts.

Jimmy Carl Black

I really like playing live and don't mind being on the road, if it's with the right band. I do like creating in the studio and enjoy the end results.

Lou Gramm

I really feel that I am ready to get back in the saddle and work with Mick. Everybody in the band, including management, is excited about it.

Adrian Belew

I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder.

I produced a song for Bobby Vee called Get The Message.

Randy Castillo

I prefer recording drums in the analog format,but that does not mean I would only do it that way.

Suzy Bogguss

I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.

Kerry King

I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.

Danny Elfman

In Tim's films the tone is the most important thing that the score can do. In any unusual film, finding the tone makes such a big difference.

John Fogerty

In the last two years or so, I've made a conscious decision to play American guitars; I don't know of a more subtle way to say it.

Warren Cuccurullo

In the last two years I made more progress than in the first nine years training. Now I know how to eat, how to train, how to sleep.