Famous Quotes & Sayings

Syd Barrett

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

Roy Harper

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.

Thomas Dolby

If you think back to the '70's, there were these new tools, with very few people using them in pop music. There's a real parallel with that now.

Thomas Dolby

If you're Take That for example, you don't need to be seen in the studio. But they have their own fans, and their fans would like a way to get closer.

Johnny Rotten

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates.

Thomas Dolby

I'm actually more interested in the other half of the world, because I wouldn't like to be excluded from any of this technology.

Jonny Greenwood

There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music.

Syd Barrett

I've got an idea that there must be someone to play with. If I was going to play properly, I should need some really good people.

Robin Gibb

It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.

Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Stephen Colbert

My father always wanted to be 'Col-bear.' He lived in the same town as his father, and his father didn't like the idea of the name with the French pronunciation. So my father said to us, 'Do what you want. You're not going to offend anybody.' And he was dead long before I made my decision.

Quincy Jones

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

O. J. Simpson

It is inconceivable that French workers at Peugeot would be laid off on this magnitude.

Mary Wittenberg

Our races are to our sport what Wimbledon and the Australian, U.S. and French Opens are to tennis.

Cara Black

I read French much better than I speak.

Abu Bakar Bashir

Indonesians must understand that there is no Islamic state without the enforcement of Islamic laws. Otherwise it is just talk and nothing else.

Jean Alesi

I'm not sure they understand everything about racing cars. I am not sure that this is wise.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

In Franc, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

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.

Martin Scorsese

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.