Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stuart Murdoch

He delivered, but at first I had my doubts. He was quite brutal about taking a machete to songs if he thought they had too many verses; one song he completely halved. And he didn't like my acoustic guitar playing. Did you notice that, Chris? He would accidentally lean on the mute button. But I'm surprised and delighted with the way the record has turned 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.

Jeff Ament

I think at that point we were aspiring to be a Led Zeppelin kind of a band where you could pick up your acoustic instruments or you could go out and rock or you could play a country song. I love all those bands we got mentioned with, but it never felt like we fit into that group very well. So the fact that they're still saying, 'The band that survived grunge' is kind of funny.

James Mercer

I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.

Jack O'Shea

I'm flattered with the response. It is a testament to our musicianship and the emotions behind that tour. We're not usually an acoustic band and this CD caters to a crowd that might not normally give us a chance.

Neal Schon

Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.

John Oates

The idea was to take these great songs, take them out of their production style and their dated recording style, and show them for the songs that they are--as if you had just played them on an acoustic guitar. It's all about timeless songwriting, really.

Jerry Leiber

The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there'd be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted.

Aimee Mann

The Forgotten Arm. I don't know if we'd do an acoustic thing or bring the band back or what we'd do -- or if it's just time to start writing songs.

Jennifer Long

I don't know why he felt the need to do something this crazy. We dated for about four months. He didn't have a temper. He never hit me or nothing.

Hannah Simone

I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so heavy and hard.' But they have great ballads! Great ballads.

Jay London

I dated a partially nude model, and she did a half-assed job.

Kaley Cuoco

I guess I've dated smart guys, I've dated dumb guys, hot guys.

Scott Roeben

I once dated a girl on the track team. It didn't work out. She kept giving me the runaround.

Larry Pozner

This is whacking out the weeds to get to the real issue. But I must say I don't view this as anything more at this point than dealing with dated odds and ends.

Tom Harkin

It's about 1,100 or 1,200 pages, ... And we got it dated November the 20th. No one's read this bill. Nobody knows what's in it.

Jennifer Hewitt

I've dated some actors that you probably never want to go out with, but that's not because they're actors, but because we didn't connect.

Mekhi Phifer

I've dated interracially a lot. I grew up in Harlem, so I've dated Latins, Dominican, Guyanese, Cuban, black, white.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Darci Lewis

Katie is a great passer but can take it to the hoop when she needs to.

Dave Pirner

I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.

Lindsay Davenport

I was just able to eke out the second set, and the third set I just played a lot better and she started to make a lot more unforced errors.

David Duncan

Kirby was 8 of 15 from the field. That's pretty good. She played well.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing.

David Cash

I wouldn't say it's pressure. We played our way into this position we can play our way out of it.

Tiger Woods

I think I played really well - even though I had three bogeys, I think 10 birdies usually offsets that.

Leonard Little

It can't do nothing but get better now. We've played the worst that we can play.

Stephen Jackson

He was aggressive. He didn't let the referees get in his head, he just played well. He's getting a feel for the game.

Myron Rolle

He just told me not to put any undue pressure on myself. He said if I just relaxed and played my game, the big plays would come.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Jessy Schram

You know that you're part of a Spielberg production when you've got some aliens involved, but you really know when you're sitting there at a table read, and they say, 'Steven really wanted it this way.'

John le Carre

There was an ITV television production of the second novel I wrote, called 'Murder of Quality.' It was a little murder story set in a public school - I'd once taught at Eton, and I used that stuff.

Alex Schott

It's an important project. Everyone will be watching and waiting to see how production goes.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Rebecca Watson

All safety systems worked to successfully shut down production on the OCS (Outer Continental Shelf) platforms,

Robert Porter

It's a solid result in terms of our production figures.

Rich Lechner

It's not only being used for development purposes, but also being used in production environments very heavily.

Scott Hudson

You put those all together, you can get some pretty significant production out of there.

James Wolpert

I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour.

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Nick Cave

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

Smokey Robinson

I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.

Tom Typrowicz

It has never been about me. It's about the girls. It's the songs we sing. It's about CCC and tradition.

Mystikal

I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.

David Nelson

In 1963 we did every one of these songs with Jerry,

Jennifer Zimmerman

These are not songs for women who twirl their parasols. These are songs for women who get dusty.

Kacey Musgraves

It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.

Bob Blyer

I try to play a lot of songs that have 'love' in the title.

Alex Villalobos

I think that if we play our style and do what we have to do and make them play our game, we'll be OK.

Ronnie Brewer

We've got to play our style of basketball. (Being physical) is not our style of basketball.

Richard Whately

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

Richard Whately

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

Toyo Ito

I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

Woodrow Wilson

I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also.

Vinnie Vincent

I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.

Rodney Crowell

God gave me wisdom, but the devil's got style.

Lenny Kravitz

I wanted to make something that sounded very pure, organic, and personal. I wanted to make music that was timeless.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Suzanne Vega

I'd like to meet you In a timeless placeless place Somewhere out of context And beyond all consequences.

OMI

The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.

Steve Brown

I think there is always room for a timeless sounding rock band like us.