Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mose Allison

I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.

Bill Dixon

I have hundreds of hours of this music on tape performed by orchestras at the college that, as I said, have never seen the light of any other day.

Charlie Daniels

I didn't really fit well with what was going on in Nashville at the time. I was too loud, I was too bluesy, I was too "a lot of things.

Joe Williams

I don't have any skeletons in my closet.

Jeff Ament

I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.

Bob Crosby

I didn't want to be compared with Bing.

Jon Crosby

I didn't want the record to be cold and I don't think it's cold at all. I felt it was very people oriented.

Ray Conniff

I didn't get paid. I didn't even care that I didn't get paid.

Max Roach

I'd like to build what I call an oasis.

Jonathan Richman

I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em I don't do 'em even for myself.

Peabo Bryson

I'd like to think my music - especially Unconditional Love, is a representation of the philosophies and ideologies I want to share with you.

Gary Cherone

I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.

Ronnie Hawkins

I don't know who's left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, we've got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it 'till nobody shows up to see it anymore.

John Fogerty

I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs.

Dizzy Gillespie

I don't care too much about music. What I like is sounds.

Gary Cherone

I could see the tension between Sam and Dave. Sammy had a career before Hagar and people hated him out of their loyalty to Dave.

Wanda Jackson

I'd been working with Elvis, but I just recorded Country, so he, definitely, like you said, encouraged me to try it, but I didn't, right then.

Joanna Newsom

I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.

Steve Cropper

I am a very lucky guy. I've had a great career and I still get to do it and get to hang out with all these wonderful people. It's just a blast.

Jermaine Dupri

My last record, people were a little confused because I was trying to prove a production point. This time, my production credit is there.

Les Claypool

My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.

Anthony Kiedis

My feeling is that what somebody like us does is much better expressed and conveyed and related to as a policy of attraction rather than promotion.

Cab Calloway

Of course, nobody knows what Porgy was, whether he was on his knees all the time or was pulled by a goat or - they don't know what he was.

Chad Hugo

Of course I'm going to feel that frustration and angry emotion going on, but at the same time, I realize that people just don't know.

Isaac Hanson

No offense, I know everybody's raving about them, but MP3s do not sound as good as CD quality, and the bass, the bass is not even there.

John Fogerty

On Eye of the Zombie, I just got some studio musicians who were competent, but some of them weren't right for what I was trying to do.

Ben E. King

The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy.

Bill Dixon

When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his work and did not look back.

Bill Withers

I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.

Bill Kreutzmann

I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't fun. It's just a whole different thing these days.

Bill Kreutzmann

I mean, when it gets down to it I just wanted to play the drums. The rest of it never meant that much to me.

Bill Kreutzmann

In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.

Bill Kreutzmann

When Garcia died, and I decided not to play, I came out here.