Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Callahan

I don't think we're going to have a plan. If it comes out heavier, I think we'll all definitely think it's cooler. But there's a lighter side. Who knows? We might just decide to do an acoustic record. We really don't have a plan set in stone. I know we definitely set out with 'Karma and Effect' to make it heavier. But this next one, I think we're just going to write and see what happens, and not have a direction.

George Harrison

We'll try a couple with just these acoustic guitars.

Eugene Kelly

It hasn't got the scuzzy rock of the Vaselines, or the more refined scuzzy rock of Eugenius. It comes from writing songs on an acoustic guitar. I bought one again and, playing it in a public place, the songs just started to flow out.

Keith Richard

He's always been a good, smooth acoustic player, but the electric seemed like an untamed beast for him until this year.

Gavin Bryars

As much as mixing instruments, I'm also mixing acoustic space so the music will travel through some different sorts of environments.

Herbie Hancock

Also, I haven't heard an synthesizer yet that I can truly say has the resolution and is capable of the nuances of the acoustic piano, so I don't even try and compare those anymore.

Jeff Black

There's a real organic quality to it. It comes right down to the fundamentals of wood and steel. A lot of acoustic guitars, mandolins, banjos, fiddles and steel strings. You're not going to see a lot of drums. You're not going to see huge PA systems.

Louis Tomlinson

My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't mean to say I don't secretly really love some of our songs, which I do. My personal tastes... I actually like quite a bit acoustic and more mellow kinds of things.

Louis Tomlinson

My personal tastes... I actually like quite a bit acoustic and more mellow kinds of things. I quite like American music, like The Fray, I'm a massive fan of them, and The Killers.

John Oates

The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer.

Kerry King

This is probably the most prepared we've been to record an album since the '80s. We've been writing and cutting demos for months.

Kate Bush

Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

Al Yankovic

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

Bonnie Tyler

Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.

Gerald Scarfe

And then I think they asked me to work on Wish You Were Here, which was the next album coming up. And I didn't do anything for a long time. I had other projects, and I didn't get around to doing anything for a bit.

The Weeknd

'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that's probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that's what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

Dave Rowntree

Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm just completely full on Empire Square. There's no time to do anything else. But there's a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before too long.

Jessica Sanchez

During 'Idol,' I wasn't expecting anything. I just wanted to survive the competition, but my album and my music are a big part of who I am. Hopefully it translates well and I keep growing as an artist.

Anthony Cannon

We're here now. We have a home, and we're finally relieved to know we have a set schedule for now and know what we're going to do next. We have somewhere to call home and we appreciate Louisiana Tech and Ruston for opening their arms to us.

Brian Tracy

Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.

Hubie Brown

We're 30 years older now, so you can go back and appreciate things a lot more, ... It's made for a wonderful year.

David Krings

The people I work with are nice people, and they seem to appreciate what I am doing.

Billy Thornton

Critics have been very, very good to me -- there are only two or three of them that really hate me, really bad. I really appreciate this award, because you're fun folks.

Dee Tvedt

We like to stay on top of things, and when we're out on patrol, we tend to be the first to hear about new businesses about to open and the first to meet a new puppy. People will often tell us they appreciate our presence, and that they feel safer when we're around.

Todd Lewis

Even some of my goals this year, I fell a bit short on a couple. I think that makes you appreciate hitting your goals. I think if you hit every one of your goals, they're not high enough.

Eric Jackson

Because I drink the water, I take precautions to make sure it's safe to drink, ... I think if people had an inkling of what we do to make sure their water is safe, they'd appreciate it a lot more.

Gary Walker

While we cannot comment on our discussion, we can tell you that we appreciate their oversight of consumers in Oregon and we are responding to their requests.

Eduard Hanslick

That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.

Samuel L. Jackson

I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

Rani Mukerji

Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.

Ryan Gosling

I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.

Scott Terry

We try to conjure some type of emotional response from the audience.

Ric Ocasek

I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want to prod the audience to react to anything. To me, it was more like negative theater. We didn't really talk to the audience. I didn't see that being a part of this band.

Michael Rolnick

NBC will own prime time for 17 consecutive days and nights. This gives us the widest possible audience and allows us to showcase Visa products, services and messages.

Rocco Landesman

but that doesn't mean I want to see plays about it. A Broadway audience comes for entertainment, not to be lectured.

E. O. Wilson

I get love from the audiences, I love that love they give me, you know the standing ovations. Makes you feel good, makes you feel good.

Alan Nevin

During the '70s, a long list of state, local and federal regulations came into being that cumulatively relegated too many Californians to a lifetime of renting.

Robert Lundgren

An old friend of his, Dan Stone, came to us with the idea. He talked to Coach Knight, and from Day 1 he was interested in the concept, and then I talked to ESPN about it.

Joan Rivers

And then my dog came and sat in my lap. I knew I had to hang in there for Spike.

Scot Meeker

The strike zone suddenly shrunk. We battled through it and came back to trail 6-4 but could get no closer.

Robert Goodman

The story of Sept. 11 is the tremendous resilience of the U.S. economy. We took a shot, a real shot, and came back. It shows you the power of this system.

Mary Kaye

The subject never came up, ... Maybe I thought talking about it would jinx the campaign. We were so busy. We had just moved into a wonderful house. Moving to the mansion didn't occur to us.

John Le

The spy who came in from the cold.

Tim Floyd

The shot chart is the story of the game, where their shots came from versus where our shots came from.

Cory Cook

The team overall was ready to play, even after the long trip. It didn't seem to phase them when it came to game time, they still played their hardest.

Steven Levy

At this point, we don't see any connection with the other incidents, ... We are looking at all options. It could be coincidence, or it may involve friends of friends. We don't see any trends involving the same people, at this point.

Dan Donegan

We figured that since we've been gone from the road for a while, let's make it a little more intimate, do multiple nights (in some cities) and get the connection back with the fans.

Shawn Jordan

I feel like, if the crowd doesn't like it, then we haven't done our jobs. We always try to create a story and make a personal connection with the audience. We really try to make it fun and interactive.

John Cannon

We don't know what the connection is yet.

Etel Adnan

My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.

Kelli Wildman

Drew was never really big on going to school, but now it seems he can't wait to go back.

Buck Showalter

I might get Drew a start down the line but I don't see it right now.

Tommy Walker

I was there when she drew her last breath. I could tell she wanted to tell me something, but she just didn't have the strength to get the words out.

B.o.B

In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did - I just wanted to do it.

Gerry Adams

strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.

Randy Foye

If we're going to make this program go, it had to start with us. We took it upon ourselves that we've got to do this.

Mike Glumac

We were going pretty well there for a bit. And all of a sudden, we've been sliding. We just have to find a way to get ourselves out of it.

Albert Young

We're not putting pressure on ourselves like this is a must, must win. (Because) then we're not playing relaxed and loose. We're playing tense.

Isaac Larian

We don't look at ourselves as a toy company. The toy market, to be frank, is just shrinking.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

Keira Knightley

I can't actually walk, but I can stand rather well.

Bill Bradley

In all honesty, I'd rather be speaking on Thursday night,

Lynn Flewelling

I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.

Len G. Murray

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.

Cameron Diaz

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

Beck

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

Rita Ora

When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.

Rita Ora

When I record music I like to be in one place and kind of have a base to keep going back to.

Ray Davies

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

Taylor Momsen

I hold the record for signing the most boobs in my band.

Sean Connery

I've never kept a record of anything. I gave away everything: all the posters, the memorabilia that would have been helpful - and financially rewarding.

Schoolboy Q

I would definitely want a hit record, but I still want the success to be around the album. Only the music can help me.

Schoolboy Q

I'm not anti single. I'm not one of them niggas that say "Aww record sales ain't everything." No. I wanna sell good. I would love a platinum record on radio and charts.

Justin Vernon

I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there.

Gustavo Torres

We are going to target them in a specific way.