Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Elliott Smith

I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.

Sonny Rollins

I don't think jazz should try to change. I think jazz is varied enough and there is so many different kinds of jazz. So jazz doesn't need to change.

Les Claypool

I don't know if it was the whole audience getting stoned out of their minds getting ready for the Floyd thing or what it was, but it was like playing to a painting.

Max Roach

I didn't even apply. There was no warning.

Ike Turner

I didn't know anything about publishing companies. I didn't know anything about writers royalties, and they kept me green, you know.

Jimmy Carl Black

It was a wild time - a time that I don't miss anymore. But then again, I'm 62 years old now and I think that lifestyle would probably put me where Frank's at now.

Eydie Gorme

It was a very ad-lib show. The musicians were all great jazz musicians. Very little music. Usually, there was just an ending and perhaps a beginning.

Arto Lindsay

It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas.

It was as if Japan had fallen victim to a case of collective amnesia.

Della Reese

It's very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they don't often coincide.

Mike Gordon

I want to get an handful of spare basses to use first of all if mine breaks, and second, to learn some things about aspects of basses that I like, so Paul can build those aspects into it.

Jon Crosby

I want to do a collaboration or some kind of side thing or some soundtrack work. Because I've been doing this for years and years. I'd like to just step out and try something different.

Vanessa Carlton

I want to be making records for years and years, and I think to have major commercial success and maintain your artistic credibility is difficult.

Jan Berry

I want to be remembered as one of the best record producers of my era.

Billy Eckstine

I started mainly learning piano, but not as an accomplished pianist. I learned by just using it as a basis for harmonic structures.

Dee Dee Ramone

I try to be nice. Part of the privilege of being in a band is giving something back to the young people. If you can do anything for them, you should.

Warren Cuccurullo

I try to help motivate the other guys in the band. I talk to the other guys in the group about frequency of meals and how you should eat.

Jack Irons

It was a difficult road for What Is This. Their business did not come easy. Eventually, the lack of success forced different directions.

Al Jardine

It took me 29 years to finish that song. That's a typical Jardine move.

Alice Cooper

They coincide with each other but they don't at the same time. So what it is, is when people come to see us the first time, they see this.

Kim Carnes

The world opened to me. It was possibe for me to go to Europe. I believe that it was the greatest change of my life, not to limit me to America.

Jon Crosby

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

John Fahey

They are too focused on the audience rather than on their own emotions, or they are too focused on technique or perhaps on both.

Cab Calloway

They were all good. Can't say that none was best and none was worst. I don't know, they were all good as far as I was concerned.

Jermaine Dupri

They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood.

Suzy Bogguss

It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.

Kerry King

It's good to be playing one and a half hour again. In the States we played like an hour and when you got onstage it felt like all of a sudden you are already done your set. But now, it feels like we are touring again.

Kenny Hickey

It's getting popular now with the younger kids with Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails, so maybe we're just around at the right time.

Bobby Sherman

For a good five years I didn't know where home was, I barely had very much time to think about anything but doing what I was doing.

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Mickey Gilley

It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now.