Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jermaine Dupri

It's one of the hardest feats in the music industry, maintaining and continuing to keep doing at the same pace for a lengthy amount of years.

Stephanie Mills

It's the best thing ever-I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.

Al Jardine

It just got to be too much of a circus and I wanted to put the music back in the show, so I created this idea of doing what I've called the b-sides.

Mark Knopfler

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

Kenny Hickey

There's always been an overwhelming feeling that everything is going to fall apart in this band any minute and that was from day one, for 10 years.

Mose Allison

There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.

Louis Armstrong

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Jon Crosby

At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it's not really my bag. I've been listening to the radio since we've been touring the past month, because we don't get it most of the time.

Jimmy Chamberlin

At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started enjoying it and being able to say things lyrically that I would normally have to say musically.

All my life it has been a pleasure to show its beauties, its marvels and its possibilities to those who, under my guidance, saw it for the first time.

Lou Gramm

About a year ago, I began to have creative breakthroughs both rhythmically and melodically. Ideas have been coming to me at a greater rate.

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.

Mose Allison

I'm pretty much self-centered in that way. I don't try to predict what's gonna happen to jazz or anything like that. Nobody knows what jazz.

Johnny Ramone

I'm just honored that people still like us and people are still nice to me.

Freddie Hubbard

I met up with Art Blakey in 1963, I think. It was right after Lee Morgan left and I played with him for about two and a half years.

Mac Davis

I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.

Tom Glazer

I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression.

Nicolas Cage

I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place.

Leonard Rose

I'm somewhat sorry that I did not stay with Frank longer because he really gave me a first class beginning of technique on the instrument.

William Sherman

If nominated, I will not accept; if drafted, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

Kerry King

I fly a lot, so I knew what's gonna be good and what's not. So I put everything into my check bag I think I might need during these flights.

If men liked shopping, they'd call it research.

Sol Hurok

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