Famous Quotes & Sayings

Justin Jeffre

We may sing an a cappella song--possibly two, probably not much more than that, ... We don't want to give people the wrong impression.

Masi Oka

I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college.

Ray McDaniel

Their progress from singing in unison with some accompaniment to doing three- and four-part a cappella has been quite an accomplishment.

Tom Meeker

OK, all engines stop. Exit stage left, the Stephen Foster Singers. It's an a cappella deal.

John Carlin

They gave you a string instrument - I got a violin. Gave it to me. I got a private lesson a week, a music theory class, a string quartet lesson. Then we all got together for the orchestra. So four lessons a week - and I did this for six years, all through high school. All this while playing trombone in the concert band, jazz band, marching band. And singing in the a cappella chorus and drama club. And on the side, I was in two rock bands, hack garage bands.

Ben Folds

With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.

Mavis Staples

My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.

Mary Lambert

I wrote the chorus specifically for 'Same Love' as a narration of my story. I decided to release 'She Keeps Me Warm' as an extension of the chorus because I felt like there was more that needed to be said.

Lee Matthews

I'm very proud of the effort the guys gave today. We only had six players; five were on a chorus trip to New York and another went to prom. Those (available) six really stepped it up a notch.

Kevin Ford

We have about 100 students working in the show. We have about 60 on stage in lead and chorus parts. We will have another 40 working on makeup, costumes, publicity, sets and lights.

Jim Crisp

Shows like 'Fiddler on the Roof,' 'Chicago,' 'A Chorus Line' and 'West Side Story' are all saluted in one way or another.

Charles King

I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that.

Ross Mathews

I realized I was gay in the shower one day with Barbra Streisand. It happened while I was lathering, rinsing, and repeating with Pert Plus. As I was belting out the chorus to my favorite song from 'Funny Girl,' 'Oh my man, I love him so, he'll never know...' it hit me.

Bindi Irwin

In the morning, my alarm clock is a chorus of lemurs yelling!

Gordon Taylor

You don't hear a film director saying 'Money mustn't go out of the industry' to actors. You don't hear a concert promoter saying 'We must make sure that money doesn't go out of our industry' to Elton John. Some people in football seem to think, 'Never mind the players, let's get on with the game.'

Kate Beckinsale

I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.

Carol Smith

It is going to be really exciting because the concerts I am conducting will be graduate students. I think they will be outstanding.

Simon Schama

I was conscious of being wordy as a child. I was a terrible talker. I memorised the Latin names of flowers at five; I was shown off as a freak. My father encouraged me to be wordier than I was: he'd been a street orator at the time of Mosley, and his ideal primary concert speech was Henry V's speech before Harfleur.

Luc Ferrari

I was doing the university circuit-I do conferences on my work and if all goes well they give me a concert or two in the university.

Kelli O'Hara

I was able to do concerts all the way up until two weeks before I had the baby; I thought I was stopping a month ahead, but he was three weeks early.

Jonny Greenwood

It's funny, but to me, when you go to a concert hall and hear electronic pieces from the '60s, I think they sound really dated. But when an orchestra plays a piece from that period, and it's going to sound different every time, it feels more modern to me.

Anna Netrebko

When you're singing before 15,000 people at a summer concert outside, you need to look beautiful, because that's what people want.

Sarah Kim

The key thing is that people are planning in concert the different forms of media. It's more about identifying who your consumer is and then determining the most effective and unique way to reach that audience.

Robert Webb

I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.

Stacey Koerner

What you're seeing is the drama genre, which has been dominant, needing to diversify. Unfortunately, they've all diversified into science fiction.

Eric Anderson

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

Rick James

KISS hammered home the importance of high drama...I decided to design my show with the same goal; I wanted my fans to remember my show for the rest of their lives.

Vinnie Jones

I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.

Rebecca Eaton

If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

Tracy Morgan

I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.

Uma Thurman

That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's lives.

Uma Thurman

More than just romantic comedy, I like romances: drama romance, romance comedy, comedy romance. I also go to the movies to escape. There are times when you go to learn, when you go to be moved, you go to be transported, and there are really times when you go to escape. And I personally escape more happily into a romance than I do violent movies.

Joe Moore

Knowing what they have to pay for the next four years would be a luxury for their budgeting.

Ricky Woods

I wouldn't be surprised if we don't (make up) this game. They might not have school down there for three or four weeks.

Greg Graham

He's a four man (power forward) that can go inside or outside. He's a very good athlete.

Lenny Bernstein

Going into the tournament, we recognized the considerable parity of the top four teams in the conference. So, we looked at it in terms of if we do really well, we could take the whole thing. And on the other hand, if we do really poorly, we could be fourth.

Jim Swift

Good grief! You realize I'm going to be 60 in four years? What's a matter with you?

John Hogan

He's a little insecure right now about what he's doing, but I don't think he has reason for it. In the four years we've been using him he's grown immensely, but he still maintains great quality.

Preston Clark

He's got 'em all, four pitches. And nobody really hits him hard.

Breakfast tiffany's

Holly: It takes four seconds to get to that door... I'll give you two!

Joe Foust

He's as strong as I've seen him through four years of running. I'm optimistic and happy with where he's at.

Rick Hendrick

It's good to see Richard walking with that step he had when I saw him in the garage area. I kind of bowed to Robbie and said, 'You're the man when I looked up on the board.' It's good for the sport. It's real good.

Jimmy Rollins

Not worried about next year right now. Worried about getting my garage cleaned.

Spalding Gray

When I first came to New York City in 1967, I joined up with Richard Schechner's Performance Group - where we worked in the Performing Garage in SoHo.

Demetrius Fannick

If they don't hit the garage door, they're going to be somewhere. They don't disappear.

Jeff Bezos

Our garage was basically science fair central.

Jim Calhoun

Kentucky gave us a great shot, but we're going to D.C..

Joyce Majewski

Just look at this watch someone gave to me.

Jason Calabrese

Joel gave another strong performance, of which there were many in the two seasons he played for me.

Joe DeSantis

John is the kind of player who can give us something positive or something negative. Tonight he gave something very positive.

Ken Lucas

I think in the long run it will prove to be a good thing for the team and myself that we gave it a week off and let it heal. I hate to miss any game, but I think it was the right thing to do.

Gary Defina

He usually swallows his rebounds or hands it off to the defense. The other night (against Rampart) he gave up a goal with 50 seconds left in the game, and it went into overtime. In the first shift of overtime, he made a great save, and we went back down and scored.

Ned Colletti

He didn't have a lot to say. I just gave him the information, and wished him well. That was it.

Alan Magnani

He'd been struggling and I'm so happy for the lift he gave this team as a senior in a championship game. You couldn't script it better than that. I'm so proud of the way he stepped up in this game.

A. Johnson

(Greenspan) gave those words of reassurance. Today will set the tone, and, on balance, tomorrow should be positive.

Jim Bryant

The hack inspector is on vacation for two weeks.

Heather Brooke

Hackers often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Stan Butler

He'll be a high NHL pick. He'll be a first round pick.

Trish Routte

He is very likely a witness to the crime. There's a high probability that he saw something.

Graham Elliot

I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention.

Fadel Gheit

The only thing keeping prices artificially high is the potential for supply disruption, ... Fundamentally, prices should be at $20-to-$25.

Noelle Reed

Had I had that in high school, I would be dangerous.

Rose Rosetree

Gwen's got that very rare characteristic, high ears. This relates to being unusually quick at learning and understanding things.

Mark Rechtin

He could pretty much pick up a musical instrument and play.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Pete Harpolis

Through this program, we get an opportunity to see for ourselves if this particular instrument makes sense and what it can do for us. It opens us up to other technologies that may prove beneficial.

Robert Bresson

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

Mike Murdock

Money's an instrument. The Bible says money answereth all things.

Dave Winker

But we're not really sure what we can do with it. We don't know enough about the atmosphere, and this is the first instrument of its type. So we don't know what we're going to find out, so that makes it exciting.

Cassandra Clare

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.

Isaac Barrow

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Clyde Tombaugh

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.

David Pierce

Kelsey plays the piano, and he's also a tremendous singer. I'm classically trained, and he's more of a jazz improvisatory pianist. So, we don't usually sit down and play together.

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Charlie Parker

You've got to learn your instrument.

Eddie Palmieri

Same, just the same. Nine pieces ---- a trumpet, two trombones, reed, congas, drums, piano and vocalist. That's what a Latin jazz orchestra should be.

Jane Asher

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

Ray Brown

Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.

Norman Granz

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

Max de Pree

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

Mark Pellegrino

I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.

Rob Bell

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

Yolanda King

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.

Jay Rohr

I'm getting a lesson in post-Charley getting construction done.

Frank Robinson

It's going to be a work in progress. He got a little lesson today. We don't want to make the same kind of mistakes two or three times.

Elizabeth Taylor

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

Eli Broad

You always learn lessons in business.

Randall L. Stephenson

The lesson of the Internet is that no audience is too small.

John Cage

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

Chris Colfer

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

Rob Bell

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

Yolanda King

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.

Elizabeth Taylor

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

Eli Broad

You always learn lessons in business.

Randall L. Stephenson

The lesson of the Internet is that no audience is too small.

John Cage

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

Chris Colfer

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

Eartha Kitt

I used to teach dance lessons.

Charlie Munger

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

Chris Quest

Even if we marched without the uniforms, even if we marched without the marching 100, you know, it's in us, you can't take our spirit away.

Jenny Williams

We were marching to say we want more than day to day survival.

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.

Scot Bunnell

Harrison is playing really well and to go over there and win will be a challenge.

Thomas Muster

I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.

Jimmy Newman

When he's not playing polo or sleeping, he is concentrating on getting well-mounted and staying well-mounted.

Tony Bethel

When he (Simmons) is playing at his best, we win.

Brad Wilkerson

We've got to realize what we're playing for. Now's the time to want it.

Bill Guerin

We've got to keep playing for our lives.

Jeremy Trueblood

I thought we had a better team this year. But that was before we started playing the game, I guess. But they were a better team than they were two years ago -- a lot better.

Ryan Ghere

I thought that made them start playing harder.

Grady Sizemore

I think we got the team that can do it. We just got to keep playing the way we are. We're right where we wanted to be, and now it's up to us.

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Moe Ammar

The private sector can turn it around a lot quicker.

Fred Carter

I think there's been even more state championships won by the private schools using (former) public school student-athletes,

Joel Kotkin

My theory is Americans are villagers, basically. We want the private space, the single-family house. But we want also the public space.

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner, ... I didn't realize it at the time.

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner. I didn't realise it at the time.

Boz Scaggs

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.

Troy Brown

I actually feel like a rock star. I feel like I'm important here.

Ed Stern

He was pivotal. He was sort of the rock of the Playhouse: organized, disciplined, always in control.

Richard Paul Evans

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

Rick Derringer

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

William Wordsworth

Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial.

Sarah Rees Brennan

They should've built a city on rock and roll.

Richard Rohr

Your false self is always that which is passing away. Your true self doesn't go up or down, it's constant - it's a rock. Once you learn how to live there, what others say about you, your failures or successes - these don't send you on a roller coaster ride down or up. It's really the only way to peace. There's no other way to be peaceful except in the true self.

Tracy Morgan

I love 30 Rock because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.

Robert Wyatt

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

Pierce Brosnan

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

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.

Kelli O'Hara

When you're pregnant, things-at least for me-get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing becomes about warmth.

Maria Callas

Only when I was singing did I feel loved.

Krist Novoselic

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

Muddy Waters

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.

Lee Watkins

They'd been there for six generations and it was all gone.

Ralph Stanley

I live about six miles from where I was born and raised.

Emiliano Zapata

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

Lou Holtz

There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

Darren Sharper

It's just not where I want it to be, but I've still got five, six days,

Natalie Gulbis

It's a tough place to spend six hours.

Wayne Gould

It's not like this was a 12-hour a day job, It was more like a six to nine.

Younis Khan

It was a tremendous victory especially after we were six down for 39 in the first innings.

Linda Price

We're going to be with them a lot for at least the first six months, then slowly wean them. We're not just going to throw them into an apartment.

Tullian Tchividjian

Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! Its the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance.

Aldous Huxley

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

David Joy

We'll see if Goldman can keep that string going.

Phil Everly

My son and I run a string company, and he has a studio there, and I go down sometimes and we'll record.

Richard P. Feynman

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

Kenneth R. Miller

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

Herbert A. Simon

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

Albert Einstein

The most practical solution is a good theory.

Albert Einstein

The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

Albert Einstein

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicty of its premises is.

Albert Einstein

Since others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself.

Don DeLillo

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

Tre Cool

Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together.

William Albert Allard

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

Yvette Nicole Brown

Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.

Wilfrid Laurier

A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together.

Will Carleton

So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree

Vladimir Putin

Let us not forget that we have two governmental reserve funds: the Reserve Fund and the National Wellbeing Fund that represent together $100 billion.

Vladimir Putin

I would like to draw attention to the fact that we have gone from pure trade [with China] in traditional goods [energy resources, such as hydrocarbons, oil and now natural gas, petrochemicals on the one hand and textiles and footwear on the other] to a whole new level of economic cooperation. For example, we are working together on space programmes. Moreover, we are developing and soon will begin the production of a heavy helicopter. We are now tracing the plan for the creation of a wide-body long-range aircraft.

Walter Mosley

There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.

Yoko Ono

World peace is one project that we have to do together.

Mike Martz

He'll be back, but whether it's this week or not I don't know.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Ryan Kwanten

I'm more of a heat-of-the-moment type of guy. A friend will tell me about something coming up, maybe that weekend, and usually not an abundance of thought goes into my doing it.

Robert Redford

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

Tony Mortensen

It's going to be a long, long bye week. Two weeks to think about this.

John Green

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

Katherine Jenkins

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'

Nick Hornby

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

Lesley-Anne Down

That Days of Our Lives thing for a week nearly killed me.