Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Hanna

It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in the early '90s, there was a lot of violence at Bikini Kill shows that people don't realize happened.

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.

Scott Weiland

I was just a kid in 1987 when I heard of the Pixies, the year after I graduated high school. But I had my band together, and my best friend at the time, Corey Hickock, who was the guitar player in the band that would become STP, Mighty Joe Young, turned me on to the Pixies.

Josh Clark

I was into grunge, the heavy, distorted guitars, bands like Nirvana. Although, we weren't that good. But I wore the flannels, the long underwear, the whole deal.

Edward Furlong

KISS is the most brilliant band ever to be alive, and Gene Simmons is the coolest guy that ever lived.

Quinn Allman

I think it's a little easier for kids to digest than the Warped Tour. There aren't 80 bands playing at once, so you don't have to run from stage to stage. It's more of a concert. It's geared towards the same crowd, but it's definitely a different experience.

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.

Courtney Taylor

It bought our freedom, ... Bands have to take out massive loans from record companies to make videos, albums, cover art, web design. Well, we don't have to. We don't have to do anything we don't want to, ever.

Brad Tolinski

I also think being in a band in general has more to do with team sports, in a strange way. It's like being in this team activity. That traditionally was not the domain of women or girls.

John Tortorella

I just don't like playing (Burke) back-to-back at this point in the season, so Johnny went in.

Johnny Oates

This is just a very strong testimony to the life Johnny lead,

Jack Brown

It's sad and it's good. I'm sure I will spend a lot of time here. Of course, it's like Johnny never left. He is still in my heart.

Alex Pettyfer

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

Johnny Vegas

People are always asking, 'Where does Michael Pennington end and Johnny Vegas begin,' and you're going, 'It's not like that: it's blurred right across.'

Casey Stengel

Johnny Sain doesn't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.

Brad Richards

Johnny kept us in it. He was quite impressive.

Paul Harris

Johnny Flynn - he's next year's Player of the Year.

Manny Ramirez

Johnny Damon said. ''It's going to be pretty interesting when he does.

David Burton

It also occurred to me, what's the nature of the emergency? They did not point that out.

Spencer Abraham

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

Robert Wilson

I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.

E. O. Wilson

It had her performing stripping, touching herself, things of that nature.

Richard P. Feynman

It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

Richard P. Feynman

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Richard P. Feynman

As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.

Richard P. Feynman

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.

Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Jimmy Rollins

Keep him sick all year long. I have this new virus, Ryan, I want you to try it.

David Davenport

It could have been worse had she not been sick that day, ... She didn't come to school. So she was very fortunate.

David Davenport

It could have been worse had she not been sick that day,

William Wilberforce

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

Reggie Ball

I am healthy. I am healthy. I am not sick anymore,

Richelle Mead

I still couldn’t stop the sick feeling rising in my stomach. “This could be a disaster.” “How? If anyone even finds it—and it’s not just sitting under a table right now—they’ll just have a good laugh at our sappy talk. No one’s going to be like, ‘Aha! Proof of an illicit human-and-vampire affair.

Ryan Lochte

I suddenly said, 'I'm sick of losing'. After that, I trained hard and I never lost there again.

William Wordsworth

The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts.

Wesley Willis

Take your ass to the barber shop. Tell the barber that you're sick of looking like an asshole.

Taylor Hawkins

I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.

Ralph Kiner

Solo homers usually come with no one on base.

Paul Desmond

It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo,

Lou Ferrigno

Now because he saved the day they're making another solo Hulk movie after the second Avengers comes out,

John Frusciante

I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with

John Legend

For me I'm actually doing what I normally do when I do my solo thing and the other thing is actually more new to me.

Brandon Boyd

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently.

Peter Coyote

The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.

Max McKeown

Strategy is not really a solo sport - even If you're the CEO.

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.

Estelle

Labrinth is a super talented singer, producer, songwriter from London.

Nick Cave

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

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 Thomas

I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I asked him to open up a 10,000 seat gig. Just him, his guitar, and his songs. He killed it!

Rob Sheffield

'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or 8 years to start liking it.

Rob Sheffield

Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.

Rob Sheffield

It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Tom Lochner

Has it turned the world upside down? Probably not.

Donnie Henderson

He's got speed. He can turn that corner.

Paul Gillis

What else could we do but turn it up. We did and now we're still in the series.

Jason Lane

I thought there's no way we were going to be able to turn two.

Seth Tharp

I think we have the turn of the tide. I think we're all on the same page.

Jason Garey

I think it turned out pretty well for me.

Elisa Massimino

I think things are really turning on this.

Smoke Laval

Hopefully, we can turn it around this season.