Famous Quotes & Sayings

Floyd Reese

Kevin has been extremely durable just year after year. Kevin is one of those guys who understands what winning is and knows how to win and can help everybody along that way.

Lesley Garrett

Just walking along Shaftesbury Avenue gave me such a buzz - it still does - and communicating with an audience through music is still the biggest thrill in the world.

Charles Schumer

Just when you think our campaign system couldn't possibly get any worse, along comes the discovery of this new loophole, ... Section 527 is the largest, most disturbing, pernicious loophole in a system rife with backdoor ways to influence government.

Rick Rubin

He is one of the few people who can get on a stage in an arena in front of any audience anywhere in the world and and play original songs for hours (that) everyone would be familiar with and sing along to. The list of people whose music has this power could be counted on one hand, tops.

Hasim Rahman

He knows when he fights me, along with the whipping comes a little trash-talking. I know one thing he won't be faking it November 12th.

Jason Dean

He jumped right in and helped us. Of course, we were doing everything; traffic patrol and trying to keep a high presence in the area when the power was out, he, along with all the men and women of the department did a real good job and I'm pleased with everybody. Being the new guy I thought he handled himself very well during the hurricane because there was a lot of hours worked and not a lot of sleep.

Bruce Bochy

Greenie's coming along faster than we thought. He's feeling pretty good with it, and he's got the OK to do just about everything.

Keith Simons

Guys like Angelo don't come along very often. He has a great, confident attitude that rubbed off on the rest of the team.

Thorsten Fischer

Half of the refining industry's capacity is located alongside the Gulf of Mexico.

Jason James

Knowing that my wish list was pretty lofty and already busy working on other projects, I wrote Johnny Repeat in distinct chapters so high-caliber artists could contribute without having to make a 100-page commitment. I'm calling it 'cosmic noir.' I can't wait for everyone to see it!

Graham Elliot

I'm inspired by artists who use a limited palette, like painter Piet Mondrian, and the White Stripes, two musicians who create an incredible sound. Our food is starting to go back to a 'less is more' style.

Gore Verbinski

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

Q-Tip

The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

James Cromwell

I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me. I think that artists are the leaders of the world because they do not have a connection to the industrial complex, the day-to-day short-term survival that most people are involved with.

David Nathan

I think the fact that they didn't attain the level of success of solo artists probably has something to do with it as well. They may have had some impact, but none are around today. They weren't able to sustain it.

Daniel Perez

There is no connection between the artists who performed at the event and ordinary, run-of-the-mill graffiti arrests.

Rascal Flatts

To get all the country music artists in one place at one time (means) you also can get autographs and pictures if you want. It's awesome, because all the artists and all the fans are right there together, which never happens otherwise during the year.

Michael Williams

Today black artists ... are doing it for themselves. It really has gotten better.

Marnie Stern

I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it.

Randy Talley

I think it just shows the strength and depth of our music program. We've also had many bands that have performed, as well as orchestras. I think it's unusual a town the size of Odessa to have had so many groups invited to perform at this convention.

Deven Choksey

Growth will come not only from voice, but from global bandwidth business and value-added services.

Gwen Stefani

Going on tour without them, I felt like I was cheating. We've been a band for 18 years. None of this was expected. Just like the pregnancy too. I'm sure everybody's wondering how this is all going to turn out.

John Entwistle

It is great to be back in a four piece band where there are a whole bunch of holes to fill and I do it. It is exactly what I want.

Bob Carlson

It is going to make it more difficult for people without problems to band together. But it is not going to make it difficult for those with real problems to band together. People with legitimate problems will be addressed, and people without won't get a windfall.

I. Stone

There is no friction between band members about their health, image or what they wear on stage,

Jason Braun

We're pretty much the only band in the world that's fusing hip-hop and spoken word. If there's another band doing it, we'd like to meet them and do a show with them.

Wes Borland

We're officially on hiatus, maybe even officially over. It's kind of up in the air. No one said, 'We're done as a band.' Everyone's just doing their own thing, and (some members) don't have time for this band anymore. I haven't quit, but I've also decided to stop thinking about Limp. I'm not going to keep trying to breathe life into a dying animal. It just ground to a halt.

Phyllis Lehman

He was a good dad and a good provider. He'd do anything for you. He'd give you anything he possibly could.

SuzAnne Miller

He was a wonderful dad and a wonderful man.

Nick Saban

He'd come and visit his dad in the summer,

Bill Scott

He kept telling me he was ready and his dad told me he was ready. After we missed the extra point, I figured enough was enough.

Richelle Nice

There are so many things, so many things. Scott Peterson was Laci's husband, Conner's daddy -- the one person that should have protected them.

Maverick Golden

I think you earn what you get out of life. I've always worked hard I was working hard in my dad's cornfields by the time I was seven.

Richelle Nice

Laci's husband, Conner's daddy -- the one person that should have protected them.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Whatever I did would be something they'd already done. I mean, my Dad would welcome it if I got a nose ring.

Phil Schiller

We think about making it so easy that a second-grader can use it, mom and dad at home can use it. The fun is in making your own movie, putting together your own content. It's such an emotional experience to see your kids and yourself and your friends in your own movie.

Kenneth Blackwell

And what I've told people today is that Elvis is dead, and I'm not gonna fret over Jesse Jackson's misinformation and confusion.

Brian Billick

Elvis was very interested and wanted to go out of his way to get a familiarity with me, and me with him,

Jerry Leiber

Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse.

Brandon Flowers

I romanticize. I live with the ghosts of Elvis and Frank Sinatra. It seems so glamorous. They were American men who don't exist anymore. But there are ugly things about them, too.

Channing Tatum

Yeah, and I recently had my first Elvis moment. A gang of young girls was jumping all over me. It was kinda scary. And totally flattering.

Genderen Stort

Nothing that we proposed was being listened to. The demonstrators on the square wanted something impossible.

Heidi Klum

Maybe he listened to what we'd been telling him.

Bob Davidson

One of the things we try to do (is) have people that try to listen, ... As our people sat and listened to her story - we realized (her) situation.

Don Harrison

I reviewed the budget, went to the workshops and listened to people, ... I have a problem with the budget.

Carly Simon

But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.

Don Bluth

We've written a song for this game, which is a bubble-gum song and is only to be listened to once, I think.

Shamir

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

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Martina McBride

I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.

Joe Thomas

I was a little nervous at first. I never played reggae music in my life.

Kelli O'Hara

The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

King Tuff

Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3.

King Krule

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

Diaa Rashwan

Here in Egypt, his name doesn't represent anything for us.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Rick James

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

Virchand Gandhi

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

Woody Allen

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

Woody Allen

There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.

William Whewell

We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

William Wordsworth

Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.

William Shenstone

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

Pierce Brosnan

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

Ruben Studdard

Dairy products are not good for a singer.

Travis Tritt

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

Robert Wyatt

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

Rod Parsley

God loves to hear your singing - so sing.

Robin Trower

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

Wes Moore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Tracie Bennett

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Peace; come away: we do him wrong/ To sing so wildly: let us go.