Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dorothy Fields

I do think song writing is a man's game. It requires push, energy, movement, mixing; it is a field that is and has been dominated by men.

Scott Ian

I don't think any of our lyrics have ever been erotic in a sexual term, because I haven't really written, touched on, that subject too often. But, uh... I mean, I suppose they could point the finger at us for violence maybe in certain songs.

Johnny Ramone

As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't, I would have gotten rid of them.

As far as we're concerned, if we're not obviously working, you can bet that we're somewhere underground working because we never stop.

Grandmaster Flash

A scratch is nothing but the back-cueing that you hear in your ear before you push it out to the crowd.

Eydie Gorme

I always wanted to be a band singer, and of course it was the total end of the big band, but I got the last job. It was a very lucky break.

Jack Irons

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

Josh Homme

Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.

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.

Jeff Ament

It's hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there's too much going on for us not to get involved.

Neil Young

It's better to burn out, then to fade away.

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.

Coolio

I've basically got an album full of singles.

I've always been a tapper, as in, on tables, school desks, my legs and chest. I've eventually been able to figure out how to move that to the guitar.

Edgar Winter

I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day... every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.

Jon Crosby

I wanted to do that again but, when I went to look for chants, I didn't want to do it in the exact same way.

Thank you for all the love you gave me. There could be no one stronger. Thank you for the many beautiful songs. They will live long and longer.

Glenn Danzig

Comics wouldn't look the way they do right now - and some of the stories you're seeing - would not be the way they are if it wasn't for us.

Steve Cropper

I believe in technology going forward. I do like to work with an engineer, but I know how to run Pro Tools, and I have a system in my own studio.

Jessi Colter

I began to thaw out and express myself.

Jack Irons

I became unsure about the future, in terms of my career. I was living in a remote location contemplating other kinds of work, not only in music.

Incidentally I felt sure I could make money as a plainsman, and, now that I had a wife to support, money had become a very important consideration.

Marie Osmond

In my case, my progesterone levels didn't even register. I was at zero. And by the time I actually got help five months later they were still at zero.

Wayne Coyne

In a way I hope we don't win because there are some fantastic records in the same category like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Radiohead and White Stripes.

Guy Forget

I'm not a big fan of layered productions.

Lee Hazlewood

I'm not a very good actor, I don't think.

Vanessa Carlton

I mean ultimately I am the artist, so if I really felt strongly about something, Stephan would defer to me because it's my album.

Della Reese

I mean there are people that never have a conversation with anybody but the checker at the supermarket or the person at the cleaners.

Charlie Hunter

I mean, in the course of an evening, people will take a solo here and there, but generally it's all about the rhythm of that music. Dealing with the rhythm with everything. That's essentially at least my concept of what that group is.

Slick Rick

I mean, I have my heartaches and stuff.

Gavin DeGraw

I mean, I cut my hair with a pocketknife.