Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Chapin

She knows more of love than the poets can say,And her eyes offer something that won't go away.

Chico Hamilton

Most people would be disappointed, myself particularly, if I were to come up with the sound of the early 'sixties, or of the 'fifties even.

Kristin Hersh

Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves.

Matt Cameron

Most of the time we've had some interesting opening bands, like Cheap Trick opened for us a few times and that was a total thrill.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.

Ike Turner

We're having time to give the younger generation today inspiration. Regardless of the obstacles that you have to overcome, how you can make it?

Anthony Kiedis

We're able to breathe in each other's space at this point, and it was never really like that before, even when we were hyper best friends.

Isaac Hanson

We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.

Janet Jackson

There is a lot I haven't said that I actually could say. I hope people would find it interesting. I know a lot of people could relate to it.

Jay McShann

We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.

Tony Bennett

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

Tommy Shaw

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.

Toni Braxton

I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.

Stevie Nicks

He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.

Benny Carter

Leonard Feather... was the one who arranged for me to come to London to work for the BBC, and we remained friends until Leonard passed away in 1994.

Mose Allison

Louis Jordan, I always liked him as well.

Steve Cropper

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

Shannyn Sossamon

Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing.

Norman Granz

Many movie people, who would never have dreamt of using jazz arrangers for scores, are doing it frequently now, even though they water them down.

Martin Denny

So, here we are in Santiago, Chile and the President had absconded. There were mob scenes and people were all up in arms. It was pretty grim.

Ornette Coleman

So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask,'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'

Robert Goulet

So I've been a fight fan for a long time.

Kim Deal

So it would be a Breeders thing where Kelley would come down and record. We went to New York City, and that's when we saw Kelley kicking.

Stewart Copeland

So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.

John Fahey

So I was really composing for full orchestra and of course I didn't know enough chords or harmonies yet but I came up with some interesting stuff.

Ben Harper

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

Cab Calloway

The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.

Brenda Holloway

Success to me was getting out of that contract in one piece.

Bobby Hatfield

Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a good opening act, and we went out there and performed as well as we could... over 15,000 kids chanting.

Bobby Hatfield

Some people come to our shows and think they're gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they're pretty much surprised cause we do a lot of rock and roll.

Bobby Short

But life is tough and if you're creative, it's tougher.

Bela Fleck

So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

Bela Fleck

They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true.