Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessi Colter

Waylon was such a great force in music.

Muddy Waters

Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.

Muddy Waters

There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

Max Roach

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

Adrian Belew

The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other.

Jeff Ament

We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.

Scott Ian

We've always been a band that just did out own thing. We've never really set any goals, we just did what we wanted and set out to do.

Les Baxter

I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.

Merle Haggard

And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13.

Charles Dickens

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

Charles Dickens

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Charles Dickens

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

Charles Spurgeon

Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.

Charles Spurgeon

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

Charles Spurgeon

Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.

Alanis Morissette

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

Amber Smith

We actually came out pretty flat-footed. Even though we had a lot of goals, they had a lot of mental breakdowns today. ... But we're glad to come out with a win.

Joe Masleh

We accomplished what we came here to do due to great senior leadership.

Terry Butcher

Wayne Rooney is wasted switching between the right and left hand side. He's got to play through the middle, playing to his strengths. He came inside in the second half but didn't know what he was doing.

Carlos Levorin

The possibility of an upgrade in Mexico's rating came out, the Mexican stock market went up and the other markets followed suit.

Jim Owens

The person that was sitting in front of me came flying over the desk, ... and it was then that the sound registered.

Kenny Brooks

The people who kept Shirley McCall off the all-conference teams are crazy. She?s one of the most valuable players in this league, and I?m just happy she came out and played extremely well today.

Steve Tobin

unseen strength. New Yorkers came together in a way that no one imagined New Yorkers could or would. The generosity and compassion spread around the country and the world.

Gary Wilson

We've already mailed them out. Today being a holiday, they will probably get them on (today). They came out really nice. They are orange, the same style as in the movie 'Glory Road.' No one had the trim that they used, so we had to contact the company that made the uniforms for the movie and get it from them.

Ben Brooks

We started to execute more and our team did not have as many turnovers. We just played better as a team in the fourth quarter. I was a little nervous at first, a little nervous. They played us real tough, but we came through.

Barnett Newman

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

Matt Hasselbeck

We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense.

Stan Clark

We always felt we did the proper thing.

Shirley Manson

We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing.

Lisa Gansky

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

Ledawn Gibson

We started off kind of sluggish. I felt like we could've come out better to play, but after we made some adjustments we were able to get things going.

Petr Sykora

We have to finish the season on a good note. It doesn't matter what the outcome of the game is, but we have to feel good about ourselves. I don't think we felt like that tonight. We have a lot of guys who are injured so we need to get healthy and ready.

Michelle Williams

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I felt Nigeria didn't have to succumb to the image of being a corrupt country; we didn't have to let the economy stagnate.

Don Samuel

When you tell a lie, it's always harder to remember what you said.

Holly Lisle

Writing, for all that it's harder than nursing ever was, is also more joyous and more fun and a lot less dangerous. And the major themes of my life have become the major themes of my writing, too - so it has all worked out pretty well.

Charles Grodin

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

Maggie Shayne

Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.

Rob Davis

What this is all about is getting a taste of success. It doesn't matter who you beat, once you know what it takes to win, you'll work harder and that opens up other opportunities.

Freddy Sanchez

What he needed to do was to work harder than the normal person just to get back to where he needed to be. This is probably the strongest I've ever seen him.

Jim Haslett

It's a shame because not too many people on this team work harder than Michael does, ... But we'll pick up and hopefully not miss a beat.

Glen Spain

A lot of people are going to lose their jobs. It will mean ocean-catch salmon will be much harder to get. And it will be much more expensive.

Larry Terry

They know all the positions and that makes it harder for teams to know who's lining up where.

Chico Hamilton

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

Chico Hamilton

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

Chico Hamilton

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

Chico Hamilton

I don't dig staying in one groove.

Chick Corea

It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what Kind of Blue did.

Chick Corea

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.

Edith Wharton

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Eddie Murphy

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

Eddie Izzard

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

Jesse Spencer

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.

Jim Taylor

After Andrew, insurers realized the premiums they were charging weren't enough,

Chris Browne

Some stuff fell. Before it hit, I realized it was a person who jumped.

Marcella Anderson

I shouldn't have trusted her. It was wrong, I've realized it now. But she was there, she was friendly, she was warm, someone I thought I could trust.

Justin Tuck

I used to like cufflinks, but I got too lazy for them. I realized I don't need them for a polished tailoring look, so more times than not, I skip them.

Joel Madden

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

Bob Starkell

We just keep getting better. We realized we can do this, and we put it all together as a team.

Ryane Pearson

This was my 'A-ha!' place, where I realized that there's someone else like me.

Paul Theroux

The place that interests me most, actually, is the United States. I've realized that I haven't traveled much in the States. There's a lot to see.

Alan Doyle

It's not unusual for songs to be like that,

Des McAnuff

The most important thing here is the story. The songs are a wonderful bonus. But they had to be able to act.

Linda Eder

I understand these songs better than I would have 10 years ago,

Etta James

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.

Todd Rundgren

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Adam Jones

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

AJ Case

I got a team of songwriters I used to work with, and we wrote songs day and night.

Vince Neil

If the songs aren't there and you throw a TV set out of the window, who cares?

Sophie B. Hawkins

My songs are always four years ahead of me. They're like my teachers.