Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sol Hurok

If I would be in this business for business, I wouldn't be in this business.

Phil Harris

I have not followed Lou's career on a day to day basis, but am quite aware of it and he should be proud of all of his accomplishments.

Lindsey Buckingham

I had to seal off my feelings about Stevie while seeing her every day and having to help her, too. But you get on with it. What was happening to the band was much bigger than any of that.

Ben Folds

I had to play a George Harrison song at a benefit a couple nights ago, and it was really hard for me. Obviously it wasn't my world.

Jimmy Carl Black

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.

Harry Belafonte

I not only think that they are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing, and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil.

Mike Gordon

I like to be sort of grounded with Fish. But, at the same time, I think probably what's unique about us is the way other dynamics happen, where I'll play off Trey for awhile. When we start playing a jam, I don't usually know what's going to happen, I don't have a plan.

Lesley Gore

I just never found it was necessary because I really never kept my life private. Those who knew me, those who worked with me were well aware.

Carl Wilson

I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

Glen Campbell

I love playing in the South, ... I play lots of concerts in Cleveland and Boston and other cities up North, but I don't feel as comfortable as I do when I'm home in the South.

Trick Daddy

I'll probably have a lot of rap cats come on up.

Jimmy Carl Black

I know I didn't like that dress 'cause it didn't fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren't the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us.

Jackie Jackson

I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.

John Fahey

I know many inferior guitarists who are very proud of the fact that they are as good as they are, when in fact they are only moderately good.

Jewel

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

Wayne Coyne

In this gap where your mind is stretching itself to keep the music going it hits you as a new music experience. We were excited about it.

Iris Dement

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music-I spend so much time working at my own music.

Ani Difranco

Art is why I get up in the morning; my definition ends there. You know it doesn't seem fair, that I'm living for something I can't even define. And there you are right there, in the mean time.

Charlie Hunter

Anyone playing with you is going to change where your direction is.

Bob Dylan

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Cab Calloway

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

Jerry Harrison

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

Grandmaster Flash

Exactly, especially when you're talking about a music where you can do just about anything. We can talk about just about anything lyrically.

Mark McGrath

Every time you walk into a room, it's, like, is there a booger hanging out? Is there a wrinkle here, a gray hair there? It makes you psycho.

Ray Evans

A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true.

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.

Robert Cray

A lot of bands would be aching to be in the position we are.

Bob Dylan

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

John Paul Stevens

They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade.