Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Angelou

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Herb Alpert

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Isaac Hanson

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

Yehudi Menuhin

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

Mary Roach

I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.

Usher

In my opinion the world is in need of real soul music.

Sam Tsui

If you have music that sounds like what you cover, people won't be able to differentiate who you are.

Maisie Williams

If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.

Bobby Short

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

David Bowie

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Michael O'Leary

The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.

Christina Perri

I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me.

Chris Noth

People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.

Jeremy Davies

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

Jeff Garcia

I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected.

Halle Berry

I used to have to downplay my sexuality because I wanted to be taken so seriously as a thespian and as an artist and as an actor, so I'd play crack heads and down trotting women and disguise myself, and I think as I've gotten older, I become more comfortable with who I really am and all parts of me knowing that my physical self doesn't diminish me in any way or my talent.

Adam Savage

Isn't television glamourous?

Max Azria

The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good style and has the confidence to feel comfortable.

Jackie Cooper

There was only so much television you could do.

Jesse Eisenberg

No one should be offended - that's not my style.

Jenny Eclair

I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid.

Harry Shum, Jr.

Everyone has different talents, different styles and talents.

Gus Van Sant

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

Jim Butcher

If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.

Iris Apfel

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style.