Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Cash

and then come back with a song I can sell.

Scott Storch

The stuff is surprising. Every song we do now is, like, totally amazing.

Peggy Lee

Sometimes I want to revive a song or medley I did that went over with the crowd.

Paula Abdul

You're way better than that song choice. It didn't show your range, it didn't show your personality.

Brandon Heath

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

Aretha Franklin

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

Brad Paisley

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard

Brad Paisley

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

Brad Paisley

I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.

Art Alexakis

As a songwriter, I do kind of look at 'Santa Monica' as a thing outside of itself, because it isn't just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a part of their high school or college years. That means a lot to me.

Joshua Leonard

The big studio movies are spending more and more money, which means they have to open in more theatres in order to re-coup their investment.

Rodney Lovell

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

Elizabeth Warren

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

Christian Lacroix

Ready-to-wear -- that means 'ready to wear'. Some people are doing couture during ready-to-wear (fashion week), others are putting up performances, we just come here with our little flowers.

Nick Harkaway

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

Mark Fontaine

Privatization does not mean you abdicate your responsibility.

Joni Mitchell

People think it's being remodeled, ... I tell them, and they say, 'What? What do you mean they're tearing down the old high-school building?'

Butch Loper

People don't understand what is meant by storm surge. You're telling them, 'Hey, you need to go.

Richard Corley

The old playhouse never had your own journey to it but this one does. It now has a separate identity.

Carson McCullers

There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

Alan Lightman

Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. It's a way of thinking and it's an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it. I think once we stop asking questions like "what is the age of the universe," or "how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level," once we stop asking questions like that, we're dead.

Alan Davies

I dont drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

Austin Carlile

Happiness isn't a destination; its a journey.

Diane Ackerman

Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.

Brian Cox

What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.

Bruce Dickinson

Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.

Barry Levinson

I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form and take you on a journey.