Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Henderson

I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.'

Adrian Belew

King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.

Alberta Hunter

I would sing softly, and if the people at the next table would want to hear what I was doing, they'd have to call me over and give me a tip.

John Fogerty

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

Ike Turner

Keith Richards uses a Telecaster, but he takes the sixth string off and tunes it to G. And that's what The Rolling Stones use all the time.

Bill Kreutzmann

I actually heard from some deadheads that we had the night. They went over to the Kaiser and then they left and came to our gig. It was sweet.

Charlie Haden

I always approach music by thinking about the person I'm playing with and listening to the way they play and trying to enhance whatever is going on.

Solomon Burke

He knows what He's doing, and sometimes we project what we can't see, but only God knows what's going to happen, and He knows the best. For all of us.

Grandmaster Flash

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.

Tyler Colvin

I was just a mental case, to tell you the truth. I worked on my approach and learned what pitch to swing at and it's paid off. I was just swinging at bad pitches.

B.J. Upton

I was always brought up to be patient at the plate. That's the approach I've always taken to hitting. That may be why he said that -- I take a lot of pitches. I might strike out 100 or however many times a year, but my walks to strikeouts about evens out.

Rick Forney

Kenton's been around. He's matured. He'll tell you his approach has changed. He's always had an excellent basketball IQ. It's just that everything else has come together for him.

Brad Buckman

Kenton and I went to a Final Four as freshmen, and now we have a Big 12 championship. We have to approach every remaining game like we did tonight and see if we can get back to the Final Four.

Lou Holtz

Knowing Bill Snyder and the disciplinarian he is and the approach he has, yeah, I think he will bounce back, ... And he doesn't have to be real good to be pretty good in that North.

Klaus Toepfer

I would urge Presidents and Prime Ministers to make this WRI report and the findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment indispensable parts of their reading. I am sure that the conclusions will suggest to them, as they do to me, fresh, imaginative, sensible and truly sustainable approaches to the pressing development issues of the day,

Paul Gallico

Jack Dempsey was a picture book fighter. By all the sons of Mars, he looked the part. He had dark eyes, blue-black hair, and the most beautifully proportioned body ever seen in any ring. He had the wide but sharply sloping shoulders of the puncher, a slim waist, and fine, symmetrical legs. His weaving, shuffling style of approach was drama in itself and suggested the stalking of a jungle animal. He had a smoldering truculence on his face and hatred in his eyes.

David Rowland

Just like the spa is a pampering of your body, spa food and the approach that I make is ... from a similar angle. A burger and fries would not be appropriate. It's something we all crave, but after you've done it, you feel sort of weighted down.

Eric Munson

Just watching him and how he approaches the game and how he handles the pitchers, it really helps me out just to watch him and see how he goes about it.

Elizabeth Spelke

Knowing this, we may be able to enhance math training.

Atharva Veda

Knowledge not only helps us material success but it also enhances our spiritual growth.

Jamie McLennan

I think it's good. It puts us on a stage with every other sport that's major. People who know hockey know there really is not a place in hockey for steroids. I'm sure there are things you want to enhance your performance, but I think at the end of the day you'll see we are clean.

Ryan Rosenberg

We've enhanced that so you can highlight relationships, annotate and color-code things.

Klaus Schwab

I think a number of initiatives have been newly taken or enhanced during this meeting that will have a tangible impact.

Douglas Alexander

We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.

William Stafford

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

Ralph Nieders

If the prospectus had mentioned the possibility, it might have enhanced the value of the stock.

Arnold Palmer

If there's an event, and something would happen where I thought I could enhance an event and play some kind of reasonable golf, I might do it, ... But I do not have any plans and am not making any plans at this point.

Nick Hornby

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.

Greg Simon

He's been visiting with people, first thanking them for all the work they did while he was in public service, and he's listening to people to see what they thought went right and wrong.

Richard L. Evans

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

Robert Orben

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

Sarah Dessen

As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.

Sandra Cisneros

I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.

Will Oldham

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

William Golding

Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.

William Arthur Ward

Before you speak, listen.

Ken Hill

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Ken Hill

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Swae Lee

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

Andrew Lack

has got two revenue streams: one from our music and one from the sale of his iPods.

Tony Oller

Being from Texas, acting or music isn't really a thing to do.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

Orlando Bloom

He's got the music in his head. There's a rhythm to it all.

Carrie Smith

His passion was music. He was a rapper. That was his talent.

Dwyane Wade

I was like, 'Hey, Carmelo Anthony should be playing too.' . . . I think I could have helped.

Jeff Attinella

Kevin's taught me everything I know about playing keeper. He's prepared me for every situation.

John Buck

Just say today's the day and keep playing hard. Hopefully, it's going to end tomorrow.

Jose Reyes

He is playing like the game. He is trying all the time.

Scot Bunnell

Harrison is playing really well and to go over there and win will be a challenge.

Thomas Muster

I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.

Taylor Hawkins

I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.

Susumu Tonegawa

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.

Chris Crocker

There are still things I can do better. As a whole, everyone's playing together.

Michael Assael

His thinking was a little off and too complicated.

Luke Ridnour

I thought about him, but I was thinking more about the 2-for-1.

Alex Jones

A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care.

Sharon Stone

After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things.

Kurt Ritchie

I went into this thinking it would be a long-term project.

William Wilberforce

Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized nations, to the conduct of the world around us, or to the monitor within the breast; whether we read, or hear, or act, or think, or feel, the same humiliating lesson is forced upon us.

AJ Michalka

I think you have to be guarded but not closed off.

Allan Carr

I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself.

Allan Carr

I think over there in Montreal they're a bit hardcore with the old homos. They're not that keen on them.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Steve Foley

It hurts, man. We've done everything we can do to this point; trying not to aggravate it.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Jacquelyn Jablonski

I was always trying on clothes, always really into fashion, ever since probably kindergarten.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Jon Lovitz

There are some actors who say, 'What do you want me to do? I'll do whatever you want,' and that's all they do, ... I kind of go to the other extreme. I say, 'I have an idea. Can I try something?'

Kiki Vandeweghe

He's a very, very important part of whatever we do. We want Melo with us for a long time.

Katharine Liell

It didn't matter. Whatever he said, he was going to be arrested, wasn't that true?

Long Qiming

I was doing my job. I'm a Chinese, and I had to do whatever was needed.

Orlando Dominguez

Whatever we can do to better our responses, we'll do.

Richard Lies

Whatever they want to do has yet to be worked out.

Chico Lynch

Whatever they did there, it has worked out well.

Robert Broadfoot

Whatever they achieve, the word that's going to be used will be cooperation, coordination.

Andre Cohen

Whatever she went through, I went through. We never separate.