Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shamir

As far as long-term goals, one of my favorite artists ever is Tegan and Sara, because every single one of their albums sounds different. Or Beck. I want to be like that because I come from so many different types of musical backgrounds.

Jay Reatard

A single is really quick, man. You can get it out, and in two months have it on your merch table. And albums can take a really long time. But when you get done with an album, it's a lot more fulfilling.

Gordon Anderson

Dean Martin's albums for Capitol are among the most timeless vocal pop ever recorded. He was a great singer, with a unique, behind-the-beat laconic style that perfectly fit his devil-may-care personality, and made very astute choices as to material and arrangers. And perhaps best of all, he never took himself too seriously, either on record or In life! We're thrilled that he's a big part of our artist roster.

Jon Landau

Aretha Franklin's 'Let Me in Your Life' is one of the few recent R&B albums that places the emphasis entirely and deservedly on a voice. Many R&B producers have been making records on which the singer is outshined by the song, the arrangement and the sound.

Robyn

The music industry used to be able to control a single dance on the very smallest level of when people are supposed to hear it, and when they're supposed to start liking it, and when they're supposed to start buying it. And that's trashed, you know, that big machine that takes control and works albums for a long period.

Mark Salling

'Ten' by Pearl Jam is still by far one of my favorite albums and is a big part of what inspired me to learn guitar.

Rashid Johnson

Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother's bookshelf, the albums I found in my father's basement - these things are all part of who I am and will always be a part of my work.

Ricky Skaggs

These albums last forever, not just my lifetime but my children's lifetime. So it's important to me to make a good product. And when I put Skaggs Family Records on it, I want it to be the kind of quality that I'm proud of and the kind of quality that people have come to expect from my records.

David Gregory

I set up playdates, and I'm a morning greeter for the car-pool line. I also make albums with the family photos. When the kids get older and go on their way, we'll have all those pictures to revel in.

Shekhar Kapur

As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.

Adam Schoenfeld

Bandwidth is a big growth category, ... It's an important trend that the Internet sector offers some choice and segmentation.

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.

Kevin Lyman

Punk is the root of this. Everything else is an offshoot. Some of it sticks and some of it doesn't. The best bands rise to the top.

Graham Nash

It was very important in the beginning, because we'd all come out of bands that were the Buffalo Springfield, the Hollies.

Mike Birbiglia

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

Bobby Cox

It wouldn't stop bleeding. It just kept going. We couldn't bandage it.

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.

Ross Lynch

As far as putting stuff on social media, I think Instagram is really cool because I like the visual aspect. You're taking pictures, and you can put a filter on them, and it's super creative.

Ivory Latta

Off the court, we're cool. We're still cool on the court, but it's all about competing.

Steven Hall

Are Simon & Garfunkel cool, or are they just really uncool? I can't decide.

Ed Bangs

A dispersing wolf doesn't mean that wolf recovery has started in Colorado. It's cool the wolf went a long way, but unless the wolf finds another wolf, no one should read anything into this.

Smiley Blanton

Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.

Sheri Moon Zombie

Salem is such a cool little town that's very touristy. It's fun to walk around all the shops and get the feeling there.

Larry Mowry

Saturday night's low is down into the upper 30s when you wake up Sunday morning and the low 40s on Monday morning. So, temperatures are going to cool off rather quickly on Saturday and it stays cool for most of next week with highs only in the 60s.

Bill Roedy

Quite simply, condoms are cool, and using them is cooler. We want to make it trendy, hip and cool to use condoms,

Shane Filan

It would be a cool thing to do. We are all big fans.

Michael Chitwood

I hate to sound corny when I use the word but -- where my roots are,

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

Jerry Butler

The seniors here are about pushing you and motivating you to get better. They're not about, 'You're a freshman trying to take my job.' If you can play, they're going to push you to get better. Right now, I'm learning and they're helping.

Steve Hill

The thing with these guys is that theyve all been there before, ... They were all freshmen and sophomores when we were down at state two years ago. Thats whats been the most important thing for them. They all know what needs to be done to get to that point.

Rudy Morrow

After my freshman year when I got the gold in the 200 I was really excited. The 100 was a little too short for me.

Michael Starke

They are always tough and competitive. We just want to try to get better this week and come out fresh Friday and give them a sweat.

Katia Winter

If I had a choice, I love making smoothies, or having some fresh fruit and some good snacks. A smoothie with banana, kale, blueberries and almond milk is so good.

Lisa Randall

Harvard freshmen are smart, interested, and excited, and it's fun hearing their different perspectives and stuff that they will share.

Steve Woll

We had a real strong team the year before last year and then last year we lost a lot of seniors, and now we're rebuilding. This year we have 10 freshmen so we are rebuilding even more.

Clint Johnson

The reason for that was, the season before I got there, it was the first year freshmen could play. All those stats that had been collected, those people had been playing for three years.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Astro Teller

Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.

John Hudson

realize the great things that are happening in Jefferson County, and specifically at Atherton High School.

Darren Shan

Reading has always been the great love of my life.

AnnaSophia Robb

Prom was awesome. I had such a great time at prom.

Dan Kallaugher

Princeton did a great job capitalizing on the mistakes we made and that was a big reason why they were able to win.

Howie Hewitt

(Proctor) is 100 percent every pitch, every at bat. He's a great guy to have at the plate in that situation.

Chris Ullman

Privacy issues are of great importance to the president.

David McCandless

Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day.

Hilton Armstrong

As a senior, I understand that every team comes at us harder because we're No. 1.

David Lambert

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

Kieran Crowley

Our skill level let us down big time. The harder we tried the worse it got.

John Benjamin Hickey

After you do a play like 'The Normal Heart,' it's hard to find something you feel so passionate about.

Miikka Kiprusoff

After seeing him play, it's kinda hard to take him seriously anymore.

Terrell Everett

Once we got down, it was hard to play catch-up. They did everything right.

Dan Penick

Actually, he told me if I work hard I could come in and start right away.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now.

Stephanie Davis

The more kids report bullying, the more that is a deterrent. The more young people feel safe, that promotes better learning. It's hard to learn if you don't feel safe.

Michael Cohen

People responded to Sandy. At public hearings, which can be so contentious, people would listen to Sandy's presentation and stand up and cheer.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Denise Bishop

You're sitting here listening to everything we have to say, but there's nothing we can do about this.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

George William Russell

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

Carla Bley

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Alan Vega

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Austin Carlile

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

Tom Sawyer

As congressman, my voting record on these matters is clear. I know how to get things done.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Stephen F. Lynch

other matters have been referred to us, and we are taking a look at those matters.

Shyam Saran

These matters should be resolved through discussions and not through confrontation.

Kenny Thomas

This is a trend we been watching for a number of years. It's only a matter of time before debit overtakes credit.

Nykesha Sales

This is not a matter of celebration because it's not over. We have to play like we're down. We need to push now, not celebrate.

Steve Ross

This is not simply a matter of one or two or a half-dozen similarities.

Daunte Culpepper

That's why you play 16 games. It was only a matter of time before we got out there and did what we're doing now.

Michael Gallagher

That's not a matter of rank, it's a matter of training and experience.

Lemmy Kilmister

We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.

Struan Robertson

The BPI didn't want to sue its customers, but it will do to stop them stealing music.

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

Boz Scaggs

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

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.

Benjamin Disraeli

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

Carla Bley

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

Gene Vincent

It was the sound that got to me,

Michelle Martin

You really feel like you are a part of 'The Sound of Music' when you are here.

Desiderius Erasmus

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

Brian Eno

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Brian Eno

I take sounds and change them into words.

Aesop

One story sounds good until another is told

Andy Summers

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

Aneurin Bevan

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

Simon Pegg

Happiness is where you start from rather than where you go. God, I sound like Yoda.

Marney Cox

On the one hand, it sounds like we may be a little weaker going into 2006.

Jill Scott

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Mark Hammond

It sounds like he wants to do what I've already done.

Cecily Strong

It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.

Kweisi Mfume

It sounds like we could have a train wreck.

Mark Noble

That sounds like a lot of line, but for specter-fiber, 35-pound test is about like monofilament, 10-pound test.

Marsha Thomason

I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.