Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mose Allison

These people that think I'm cynical, I wish they'd come to see my shows these days because I've turned into a comedian, practically.

Joe Henderson

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.

Clay Aiken

I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

Mike Gordon

I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since he's the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it's a little harder for me to hook up with him.

Philip Emeagwali

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.

Jimmy Carl Black

The fans have been very nice to me and I might say that all those fans that Frank said went away is not so.

Bill Dixon

The Canadians, by the paucity of invitations that have been extended to me to do things there, have obviously never been that enamored with my work.

Hasil Adkins

I'm gonna retire but I'm not gonna retire totally from the music. I'm just gonna retire where I can go back and cut what I wanna cut at home.

Jewel

I'm fairly specific about what I like to wear and looks are important to me, just like they are to everybody.

Suzy Bogguss

I'm definitely not ready to move into something else. I'm having so much fun.

Ike Turner

I'm really shopping for a record deal, and I haven't had a chance to go around to the record companies yet. So far I just pressed up a few of them.

Puff Daddy

I just want to put positive energy out there. I'm not saying a curse word is putting out negative energy, but it depends what mood you're in.

Krist Novoselic

I kind of discovered my voice for the first time, and the more I did it, the better it got.

Janet Jackson

I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

Alan Jackson

I just always remembered that, not that it pushed me to be a singer, but I don't know why he said that. Hee Haw was a big part of my life, musically.

Solomon Burke

I learned a great deal from Atlantic. Atlantic taught me how to walk in this life of music, it taught me how to fall and how to get myself back up.

Billy Eckstine

I have one son who's a drummer and then one son writes scripts and another daughter is a model, so they're all doing their thing.

Billy Sheehan

I'm a fan of a lot of classical music.

Janet Jackson

I love working with organizations. I love giving. I want to do more of that. You got to give back. I love helping people, especially children.

Rosanne Cash

I love live performance because it only happens for that two hours or whatever. It's so ephemeral and that makes it so beautiful to me.

Mac Davis

I'm sure they had to pretty much hog tie Elvis to get him to cut that song, but that was the days when he did what the studio told him to do.

Deana Carter

I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life.

Jimmy Carl Black

I had met Arthur in the 60's when I was with the Mothers and had become good friends. He had moved to Austin because his wife was from there.

Mickey Gilley

I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money.