Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Henderson

I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.'

John Fogerty

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

Grandmaster Flash

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.

Solomon Burke

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

Gavin DeGraw

I think it's important not to worry about that too much, because even if I was the next big thing, there would be another next big thing soon.

Otis Blackwell

I think the one that really happened was Fever with Little Willie John. But, it only went so far because Peggy Lee jumped on it.

Jerry Harrison

I think that the increased bandwith will make music and movie clips a lot more satisfying; but it won't sort out boring ideas or songs.

Adrian Belew

We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!

Jimmy Chamberlin

What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.

John Cleese

It's a catchy tune. Hopefully you'll be hearing it on a football terrace near you, very, very soon.

Seth Godin

So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.

Benny Blanco

Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.'

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

Sophie Hannah

I love the house we're in, but at the same time, I'm hooked on the romance of house-hunting.

Pat Coleman

It hooked me and the rest of the school and was our impetus to really push into the technology area.

Kevin Mench

I just ran into one. I hooked it, like my 3-iron.

Johnny Gimble

I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

Robert Brown

They were real nice people. They hooked me up with FEMA. From the time that I got here it was beautiful, everyone was real nice-they were superbly nice.

Kevin Burden

The makers are lawyers looking for a nice hook because the phones come at such a premium price tag. To sell these things, they have to offer more than a phone and e-mail.

Eric Smith

It's an interesting sound to say the least. People get hooked by it.

Alexander McCall Smith

Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.

Abel Oshevire

We're stepping up negotiation with their captors so that they can be off the hook imminently.

Mike Slive

Just the fundamental format, I think, needs explanation.

Jolanda Schreurs

I think it's an opportunity to redress that and start working in concert. Our needs should be aligned.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

A ruler who needs religion to help him rule is a weakling. No weakling should rule..

Two Chainz

You need to be your own individual.

Tim Lappano

He needs to understand that playing quarterback in this system takes a lot of work and a lot of film study.

Brent Kemnitz

He needs to pitch like a fifth-year senior for us.

Richelle Mead

When you've got everything you need, why complicate it?

Richelle Mead

Coming to my rescue?' 'Of course. It's what we do. I rescue you; you rescue me. We just take turns whenever the other needs it.

Rex Harrison

Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery .. once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation.

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.

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 Sheffield

The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent Dinosaur Jr. song. A compulsion compels you; an impulse impels you. Nobody ever says 'compulse' or 'impulse' as a verb. So why would you ever say 'repulse'? This word haunts me in my sleep, like a silver dagger dancing before my eyes. Renee looked it up and I was wrong. But I still kind of think I'm right.

Rob Sheffield

A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

Rob Sheffield

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

Rob Sheffield

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

Rob Sheffield

If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it recapture memories of things that used to be. But music is greedy and it wants more of your heart than that. It demands the future, your future. Music wants the rest of your life. So you can't rest easy. At any moment, a song can come out of nowhere to shake you up, jump-start your emotions, ruin your life.

Rob Zombie

A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, "We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song." You better find a new ending then, because unless you have $2 million for that song.

Daphne White

Do we really want 6-year-olds to become street fighters?

Alan Johnson

We were thinking Wall Street would be flattish for the year, but we fortunately may have undershot.

Darrell Sanders

We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.

Eric Fry

There's no visibility, to put it in Wall Street terms,

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Beeban Kidron

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.

Billy Joel

Why should I worry? Why should I care?There's just this street population, and I've got 'street savoir-faire'.