Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gavin DeGraw

That's part of the fun, I guess, is having people excited about seeing you and signing autographs and getting to meet fans and things like that.

Ricky Skaggs

That's the good thing about what we're doing playing bluegrass. It doesn't matter one way or the other whether country radio plays it or not.

Stone Gossard

Eddie is a natural leader. Jeff and I have been very much in control of previous bands we've worked in. But the way Eddie grew into being the leader of this band was the most gradual, slow and respectful process that I've ever been involved in.

Janet Jackson

Eddie in costume and make-up with that famous laugh, the minute the cameras started rolling, he became each character. It was amazing!

Lee Konitz

Each of these instruments has a voice, and if I hear a sound on an instrument that I don't like, I'm not interested usually in what he plays.

Bootsy Collins

Everyone in the band pretty much knows that whatever they want to do I am there for them, if they need my help or not, I am there for them.

Everybody's just been spilling their guts all over records and talking about how hard it is to be an entertainer and how much we get hated on and what we have to go through. But I ain't really got it that bad. I'm just happy to be here.

Neil Young

It's better to burn out, then to fade away.

Janis Ian

It was long ago and far away, The world was younger than today, And dreams were all they gave for free, To ugly duckling girls like me.

Michelle Branch

I wanted to be a Broadway star when I was younger. I wanted to sing and dance until I realized I was a horrible dancer and could probably never do it.

Johnny Thunders

I've got three boys. They look like me. They're called Dino, Guido and Little Johnny. They're my whole life. They mean more to me than music.

Bobby McFerrin

I've got one week left, and then I'm done for a year. I haven't had a sabbatical, I haven't taken a year off from touring in 15 years at least.

Pearl White

I've done a million stunts. I've been hurt over and over again. But it never happened when what I was doing looked really dangerous.

Glenn Danzig

OK, so instead of doing it that way and actually maybe being more successful and maybe starting to sell out a little, we put the breaks on.

Merle Haggard

Oh, I think I'm most proud of my music and my children, and my current wife. She's been very supportive and probably responsible for me being here.

Richard Stallman

There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.

E. O. Wilson

There's a lot happening in many of us. I think you have to celebrate every part. It's what you are. You have to try to find all of those secret names.

Debbie Gibson

This is the time it all starts, I'm telling you. Like, 16, I mean, forget it. You could just get beat up, you could go through these grueling schedules.

Cass Elliot

They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

Stone Gossard

There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits.

Ian MacKaye

If you grew up in Washington, D.C., you also know that there is no entertainment industry in this town, particularly not any local.

If you feel you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

Leo Kottke

If you get really worn out that's frequently a good way to get an idea because your usual noise isn't happening and they can come through easier.

Robert Goulet

If you do a musical you can't change the dialogue; it has been written for you. You can't change the music every night, you have to sing it that way.

Ray Conniff

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.

Aaliyah

In this business, it is very hard to have anything for yourself, because you become a public figure. That comes with the territory.

Ruth Brown

In those days, as I always tell B.B and Buddy Guy and these guys and gave them a place to cry like a man without having to do it.

Kristin Hersh

In the end I'm mother, so they take the bitter with the sweet. They listen to the music and they go on tour sometimes, It feels OK most of the time.

Carl Wilson

In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.

Robby Krieger

In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.

Tom Glazer

In the 50s, I wrote the lyrics to an old melody called Melody of Love, which was number one for a while. It later turned into a major hit.

Insurance is really based on looking at the past.