Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Angelou

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Herb Alpert

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Isaac Hanson

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

Jerry Hunt

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

John Trudell

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

Lara Pulver

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

Paul Desmond

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

Paul Desmond

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

Joan Baez

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Amy Sedaris

I've been to some funerals where there's a lot of laughing - it's about celebrating their new journey. I can't think of anything. There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

Abbas Kiarostami

It is a very important film, Life And Nothing More, in that what was filmed was inspired by a journey I had made just three days after an earthquake. And I speak not only of the film itself but also of the experience of being in that place, where only three days before 50,000 people had died.

Abraham Cowley

The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.

Dane Cook

Every great thing starts with an idea, followed by a doubt and finally a resolve to abandon or pursue. Victory is a treacherous journey.

David Gergen

Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.

David Bergen

Way back in 1989, I got lucky with my first published story when it was selected for the Journey Prize anthology. Then I got lucky three more times. It is astounding to see how many writers published in the anthology have gone on to publish great story collections and novels. The anthology is a windfall for both writer and reader.

David A. Bednar

The gospel of the Savior is not simply about avoiding bad in our lives; it also is essentially about doing and becoming good. And the Atonement provides help for us to overcome and avoid bad and to do and become good. Help from the Savior is available for the entire journey of mortality - from bad to good to better and to change our very nature.

David Whyte

Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.

David Whyte

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

Robby Benson

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it.

Frank Zappa

Shut Up and Play your Guitar.