Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Culos

Now, it's an extremely big name to live up to, but it kind of fits. We had all played in other bands before, and so this was our musical revolution, where we could finally play the music we wanted.

Billie Armstrong

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a life-style I chose for myself.

Mike Birbiglia

I sometimes think of not doing Twitter or Facebook anymore, but that's how people find their favorite bands and comedians.

Craig Finn

There are things that we do that differentiate us from them. But look, if you're going to be compared to someone, then those are two of the greatest rock-and-roll bands ever, so I'm feeling pretty good.

Dweezil Zappa

Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.

Adam Christopher

'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic, weird. One of my favourite bands is Ladytron, and I think they'd fit the bill quite well.

Kiefer Sutherland

We saw so many phenomenal Rock 'n Roll bands that were not getting signed. We really needed to start looking outside the box.

Beck

The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.

Ken Stringfellow

Many bands that I like that have longevity on their side with consistent members are even splits. It makes a big difference to have the other two guys involved every step of the way. It keeps the thing moving. Everyone is taken with equal degree of seriousness. It's not just because it's a four-way partnership. It also relates to taking things maturely and taking other people's thoughts into consideration.

Mike Heatwole

Folks from D.C. come up here from time to time to look at a wide variety of things. We don't get very many takers in the wintertime, but we always offer.

Mike Schofield

Folks don't suddenly become tax hawks once they get to Austin.

Richard Doherty

Folks (at the FCC) are rubbing their hands as to how wild it could go and at the same time popping aspirins as to how disappointing it could be,

Mark Cavanaugh

We couldn't have better folks leading the charge.

Big Bill Broonzy

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em.

Benjamin Booker

I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a week, and then I went to shows and wrote. I did a lot of music writing before I actually started playing music.

Aaron Baer

We have everything from folk to punk, but it doesn't help that there is no place to play.

Tamora Pierce

[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.

Toni Cade Bambara

Old folks are the nation.

Jimmy Rollins

Not worried about next year right now. Worried about getting my garage cleaned.

Demetrius Fannick

If they don't hit the garage door, they're going to be somewhere. They don't disappear.

Rick Hendrick

It's good to see Richard walking with that step he had when I saw him in the garage area. I kind of bowed to Robbie and said, 'You're the man when I looked up on the board.' It's good for the sport. It's real good.

Henry Lewis

The music, the dress, the color, the stage settings ? there's nothing in the world like it. The whole of Massachusetts should rush here, honestly.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Aretha Franklin

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Brian Setzer

Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

Charles Kingsley

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

Brian Cox

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Branford Marsalis

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

Billie Holiday

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

John Jones

It wouldn't have taken much to just pop over, would it?

Laura Merritt

We shut them down and another one pops up.

Clayton Christensen

It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.

Elizabeth Kaiser

I was praying that it would go out. For a while I thought it was just going to be a big pop up.

Jack London

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

Kelley Armstrong

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Cleo Moore

It was strange what happened to me; I mean popping out like that before I was even ten.

Marc Lumpkin

It's a way to go after another segment of the population that wants to sign up for satellite-TV service but hasn't had a way to do it.