Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Johansen

We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant.

Charlie Haden

Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.

Charlie Haden

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy.

Charlie Haden

I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.

Charlie Haden

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

Charlie Haden

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

Chick Corea

I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.

Chick Corea

Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.

Chick Corea

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

Chet Atkins

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Clarence Clemons

There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.

Don Henley

I could stand out front and sing Eagles songs that I sing in my set, but I think people enjoy watching me sing and play the drums. It seems to fascinate people. I don't know why.

Don Henley

A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.

Duke Ellington

You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.

Duke Ellington

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Jack Irons

Yield" was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.

Joe Henderson

Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.

Aaliyah

There are relationships where a guy already has a girlfriend and he's got one on the side, too.

Kathy Valentine

There are problems and conflicts arise, but so far we've been able to overcome any difficulties that arise in a really considerate and mature fashion.

Chris LeDoux

To me, Garth, he's kind of like my guardian angel. It's like every time I need some help, he's there.

Dorothy Fields

My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.

Dorothy Fields

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

Dorothy Fields

We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it.

Andy Williams

We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.

Art Blakey

Music washes away the dust of every day life.

Afrika Bambaataa

There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.

Alice Cooper

They pick all of us out, and then they decide, they computerize, decide if they like it or don't like it, and then they go home, and then they come back again because they're not sure what they saw.

Alice Cooper

Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together.

Alice Cooper

We started combining the use of light and the use of theatrics and the use of as many art forms as possible, and it's still growing - that's the whole idea of it.

Billy Sherwood

It's an album that is a little bit different and probably isn't easy to get out. It's not likely that a major label would have picked it up and said that they had a smash hit record.

Billy Sherwood

I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records.

Billy Sherwood

And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.

Billy Sherwood

So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now.