Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robby Benson

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it.

Dr. John

In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.

Jensen Ackles

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

Eugene Mirman

I don't know what it would be like to actually play guitar. I've toured with a lot of comedians and it's never been like it is for a rock band.

Jessie J

I can play the air guitar really, really well.

Jemaine Clement

I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar.

Jeff Ament

This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing, and building basses has gone into my model.

Jeff Beck

I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't do that and just let the genuine sound come through, there's a whole magic there.

Jeff Beck

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Aldous Huxley

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

Deion Sanders

Yes I would have been able to play for Bill Parcells.

Deion Sanders

Look good, play good. Play good, eat good. Eat good, die good.

Deion Sanders

If you look good, you feel good, If you feel good, you play good, If you play good, they pay good.

Deepak Chopra

Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens.

Debbie Allen

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

Debbie Reynolds

I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.

Debbi Fields

There is always competition. Whatever you do, there will be competition, and you have to decide how you’re going to play. For me, I had to be the very best. I had to be the very best. Because, if I was not the very best, I would end up being number two.

Ricky Jay

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

Tom Petty

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

Tiger Woods

There are guys on Tour who hit the ball further than me. I always thought it was important to have power, but more important to have power in reserve.

Steven Wright

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

Steven Wright

Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written.

Steven Wright

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

Steven Wright

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.

Reggie Jackson

You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.

Tom T. Hall

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.