Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

Sarah Silverman

I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.

Sara Blakely

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.

William Falconer

The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

Winston Churchill

Keep England White" is a good slogan.

Winston Churchill

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

Rick Riordan

With her braided hair and white dress, she seemed to glow in the moonlight.

Tyga

I could be going through something in my life that I might not want to talk about in my music because my music is the way that I escape some of those things.

Vikram Seth

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

Young Jeezy

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

Yoko Ono

Music is like my security blanket.

Ennio Morricone

Music is an experience, not a science.

Jimmy Page

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

David Gray

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Joss Stone

For me, personally, Mind, Body and Soul is my real debut.

Joe Cocker

I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times.

Dan Hawkins

When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!

Joss Stone

I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.

Syd Barrett

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

Roy Harper

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.

Thomas Dolby

If you think back to the '70's, there were these new tools, with very few people using them in pop music. There's a real parallel with that now.

Thomas Dolby

If you're Take That for example, you don't need to be seen in the studio. But they have their own fans, and their fans would like a way to get closer.

Johnny Rotten

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates.