Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan is sort of...the hip-hop version of Dr. J

Bobby Seale

When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights- whether they be monopoly capitalists or police. The term is now being adopted by radicals, hippies, and minority peoples. Even the workers, when the pigs supported strike-breakers like they did as Union Oil where 100 local police came in a cracked strikers' heads, began to call them by their true name.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

Matt Kuchar

When I'm really purring it, I feel as if my whole left side - from knee to hip to shoulder - is turning behind me as I swing through the ball.

David Bowie

I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.

Adam McKay

I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.

Anthony Mackie

I'm definitely not a muscle builder or a guy that's interested in being a muscle builder. It feels good to get back down to a normal size. Not like a hipster size or a buff-guy size, but just a normal, 34-waist guy.

Sonia Rykiel

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

Ted Nugent

I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.

Ralph Trine

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

Robert Quine

To me, the positive thing about it was we were pulling out these old influences like the Velvet Underground and the Stooges that were gone.

Eddie Palmieri

Same, just the same. Nine pieces ---- a trumpet, two trombones, reed, congas, drums, piano and vocalist. That's what a Latin jazz orchestra should be.

Jane Asher

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

Norman Granz

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

Fats Waller

So easy, when you know how.

Greg Ginn

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

Renaud Vabres

Jazz in New Orleans - that's what the world loves.

Herbie Mann

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Charlie Parker

You've got to learn your instrument.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Carlos Delgado

This is pretty special. It's exciting, just because you know you're playing meaningful games.

Brett Ratner

I love everything black, because black is cool. When something crosses over, people are like, "Oh, this is a crossover." First of all, there is no urban anymore. Pop culture is black. White kids are dressing like black kids. It's all crossed the lines now. The way I understand it is, everything black is cool. When it crosses over to white, that means it's going from cool to uncool. That's what crossover is.

Brett Ratner

'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.

Archibald Cox

What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.

Aretha Franklin

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.

Augustus

At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order...

Arthur Koestler

The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers.

Jeff Tweedy

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

Arturo Toscanini

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

Demetri Martin

A musical is the same as a burlap sack, I would not want to be in either

Adam Lambert

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

Alex Trebek

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

Claudio Monteverdi

Text first, rhythm second, melody third.

Anne Stevenson

I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm not actually a big musical fan.

America Ferrera

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.

David Dreier

We know it may not be the single most popular thing, but it's the right thing to do.

Michael Moore

You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

Janie Allen

Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received.

Sam Martin

He was a very popular young man. The students are taking it hard.

Bob Beatty

She's ahead, she's popular -- she's not completely unbeatable.

Mike Smith

Some of the more popular schools could be filled.

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Shigeki Maruyama

The LPGA is very popular in Japan, ... She will be a big star.

Cameron Diaz

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

Carson Daly

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

Janet Jackson

I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.

Eddy Cue

Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record-breaking 33 million people have already listened to the album.

Ben Harper

I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

Cory Monteith

I have a solo deal with Columbia Records. So it's about, do I want to release an album, when can we do it, what kind of album should it be, how should it be released and marketed and what's the right timing? Do I have time to do it? It's all about questions.

Adele

I don't rely on my figure to sell records.

Adam Rich

So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.

Dick Gephardt

You know, when you're in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record.

Ben Schott

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

Lee Ann Womack

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

David Peel

We couldn't give it away or sell it. We didn't have permits.

Jeremy Robinson

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

George Foreman

Learn to sell and you'll never starve

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.