Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Henderson

I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.'

John Fogerty

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

Grandmaster Flash

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.

Solomon Burke

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

Danny Elfman

Having ten melodies was also a huge challenge, because I usually have three - sometimes just one or two, but often three that I'm using.

Gavin DeGraw

I think it's important not to worry about that too much, because even if I was the next big thing, there would be another next big thing soon.

Otis Blackwell

I think the one that really happened was Fever with Little Willie John. But, it only went so far because Peggy Lee jumped on it.

Jerry Harrison

I think that the increased bandwith will make music and movie clips a lot more satisfying; but it won't sort out boring ideas or songs.

Adrian Belew

We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!

Apolo Ohno

The depth of our whole program, in Marquette and Colorado Springs, has gotten a lot better.

Jim Harrison

What we're looking at right now is three teams that are unbeatable by any Southern Colorado team - Regis, Mullen and Broomfield. What we did (Tuesday) is we put ourselves in one of their brackets.

Josh Bullocks

I've been thinking about (going pro) ever since the Colorado game. I had to help the family out. That was the most important thing.

Kellen Briggs

That's kind of a theme when we play Colorado College. They're trying to get under my skin a little bit.

Mike May

We have a real opportunity in Colorado to take a great step in Colorado. You should not have to have your health be damaged in order to have a job in the state of Colorado.

Joe Glenn

(Seven) is still quite a few, and maybe that's about average. We didn't get everyone we went after, I'll tell you that. We recruited a lot of Colorado kids. Unfortunately, some went to Colorado. Unfortunately, some went to Colorado State. We recruited just as many (as usual), but unfortunately, more stayed in their home state than they have in a long, long time.

Terry Pope

One thing you have to realize about New Zealand is the majority of their products are exported. It's a country with a land mass about the size of Colorado with about four million people. They can definitely produce more goods than what they consume.

Jon Caldara

If oil prices continue to shoot up, instead of the state getting a massive windfall, Colorado families get to offset their heating costs.

Mark Bruener

I would say he's one of the more underrated outside linebackers in a long time. He's extremely quick, and he has great instincts. He's really mature and he has great strength at the point of attack. I can remember him as a rookie out of Colorado State and how impressive he was then. I just really think he's one of the underrated players in this league.

Victoria Beckham

We've still got the melodies, we've still got the nice 'strong girl' lyrics going on.

Joe Johnson

Back then ... if you wanted the lyrics to a song you had to play it on the record and stop it, and then write it down, then play it again, then stop it,

Emmylou Harris

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

Harold Prince

Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.

Natalie Cole

I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.

Jerome Kern

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.

Matt Berninger

A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.

Dan Hill

When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.

Jason Wu

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

Gary Vaynerchuk

If you're not putting out relevant content in relevant places, you don't exist.

Cary Leahey

I don't see anything in the speech that is relevant to the near-term outlook.

John Fleming

We're not trying to be Target, we're trying to be Wal-Mart but more relevant to our customer.

Frances O'Grady

There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

Richard M. Nixon

It is sad that it was necessary that Santa Barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention of the American people. What is involved is the use of our resources of the sea and of the land in a more effective way and with more concern for preserving the beauty and the natural resources that are so important to any kind of society that we want for the future. The Santa Barbara incident has frankly touched the conscience of the American people.

Clint Hurdle

In San Francisco, they can whoop and holler and hooray for Barry. But here, we want to get him out and win a ballgame.

Patrick Rothfuss

Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What’s more, using a brilliant mixture of zen navigation, Aristotelian logic, and pure rage I can get you your package and/or delicious sandwich relatively close to on-time.

Kim Novak

I love San Francisco. It would be a perfect place for a honeymoon.

Ralph Thomas Walker

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

Joe Nichols

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

Garrison Keillor

To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.

Sergei Lavrov

We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.

Dan Hill

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

Smokey Robinson

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

Bob Blyer

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

Todd Rundgren

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Jonny Buckland

We can't wait to play our new songs live

Liz Callaway

Time After Time/Dodsworth: New Songs from New Musicals.

Miranda Cosgrove

When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.

Bob Weir

Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.

Billy Sherwood

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.