Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Knopfler

I finally got a job teaching English in a college, which I was delighted to have because it proved to be a real steadying influence.

Geri Halliwell

I didn't want to leave the Spice Girls and immediately have a record on the back of that fame, so I waited to find out who I am and what I want.

Gavin Rossdale

I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

Georgie Fame

We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day.

Georgie Fame

I broke up the band in the office in Gerrard Street.

George Michael

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

Elvis Costello

Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

Kate Bush

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

John Deacon

When we finished the album, the Night at the Opera album, that was the track on it that we thought we were gonna release as a single in England first.

John Mayall

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

Jimmy Page

I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.

Jimmy Page

I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising.

Bill Bruford

If it's fast, no I don't have enough piano technique. In that case, it's probably been done on some kind of synthesizer or sequencer. Then the score can then be printed out and so forth.

Bill Bruford

I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.

Bill Bruford

I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything.

Bill Bruford

Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past.

Jim Capaldi

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

Jim Capaldi

We loved everything. We wanted to be able to do anything.

Colin Greenwood

With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.

There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

Bill Wyman

I have found two Roman sites in the area that I live in.

Jim Capaldi

There I met Gordon Jackson and Dave Meredith who were playing in local bands.

Marianne Faithfull

I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.

Johnny Depp

I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.

Graham Nash

I think Stills has been playing better than ever. I know a lot of it sounds self-serving, but he truly has.

Mick Fleetwood

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

Jon Anderson

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

Colin Greenwood

I think that we're not reclusive at all.

Jeremy Spencer

Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I like their depth and the way they look beyond the surface of things.

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

Siouxsie Sioux

What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.

George Harrison

There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going.

Mark Knopfler

And another thing: Stay responsive to any environment that comes along, and try to reflect what you feel in a wide variety of styles and songs.