Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Fante

I wrote the song in tribute ... at the time she was murdered,

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Robert Cray

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

Rob Sheffield

The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent Dinosaur Jr. song. A compulsion compels you; an impulse impels you. Nobody ever says 'compulse' or 'impulse' as a verb. So why would you ever say 'repulse'? This word haunts me in my sleep, like a silver dagger dancing before my eyes. Renee looked it up and I was wrong. But I still kind of think I'm right.

Rob Sheffield

A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

Rob Sheffield

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

Rob Sheffield

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

Rob Sheffield

If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it recapture memories of things that used to be. But music is greedy and it wants more of your heart than that. It demands the future, your future. Music wants the rest of your life. So you can't rest easy. At any moment, a song can come out of nowhere to shake you up, jump-start your emotions, ruin your life.

Rob Zombie

A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, "We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song." You better find a new ending then, because unless you have $2 million for that song.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Gerald Johnson

I think we'll pull through this, ... Real Men Pray Everyday.

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Allan Carr

I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Truman Capote

Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.

Woody Allen

Life's hard, then you die.

Samuel Johnson

The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.

Wallace Stevens

Life is not free from its forms.

Walker Percy

Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.

Samuel Beckett

Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

Salman Rushdie

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

Salman Rushdie

Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.

Waris Ahluwalia

My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.