Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madison Smartt Bell

John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style.

Taylor Hawkins

I think that debut albums are supposed to sound sort of raw. You don't want to record 'Sgt. Pepper's' as your first album, because where do you go from there?

Schoolboy Q

'Habits & Contradictions' is the prequel to 'Setbacks.' I had all these titles already in my head before I even dropped 'em. Like 'Setbacks,' I knew that was gone be the first one; I knew 'Habits & Contradictions.' I knew 'Oxymoron.' I got two more albums that I already have the title to it, and I know how I'ma play the theme off of it.

Josh Silver

To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.

Rick Springfield

I think it's pretty bizarre, ... I think you look to music to help you through (growing old), and the music that's strongest in your soul is the stuff you heard as a kid. I do that all the time. I listen to old albums and there's almost a spiritual support there.

Rick Rubin

I think that American V may be my favorite of all of the albums in the American series. It's different from the others, it has a much different character. I think that this is as strong an album as Johnny ever made.

Ronnie Montrose

I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.

King Tuff

It involved a lot of trust, but I love Bobby Harlow, and I loved the albums that he made.

Tre Cool

The album was very agressive. It kicks you right in the balls.

Ken Hill

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

Marty Heires

Know that we are fully cooperating with the authorities. You can be sure of that.

Paul Di Filippo

I suspect that authors who start their careers writing for an adult audience - and who eventually produce a young adult novel or two - are more common than authors who begin by writing for young adults and who then gravitate toward composing something for an adult audience.

Karen Russell

It can be difficult workshopping novels because any questions or qualms you have as the author can be like, 'That's next chapter, don't worry about it!' I don't think the workshop is set up so well to do that for novels.

Tim Reese

He was able to find that median where he was an authority figure but cool enough that he would hang out with his students.

Zlatko Kranjcar

He decided himself to leave the squad. If we called him back, we would lose authority without any guarantees that he would not repeat such an act.

Jane Moore

He is old school. He's not a friend to the students, he's an authority figure. He is type of faculty member that students come to when they have problems. If they need a swift kick, he'd do that.

Nancy Collins

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Jennifer Stephens

has no authority over the statements of that organization.

Steve Martin

The thing about the banjo is, when you first hear it, it strikes many people as 'What's that?' There's something very compelling about it to certain people; that's the way I was; that's the way a lot of banjo players and people who love the banjo are.

Craig Miner

Could I get more banjo in the monitors please?

Mena Grabowski Trott

I wrote a post about wanting to buy a banjo - a $300 banjo, which is a lot of money, and I don't play instruments; I don't know anything about music. I like music, and I like banjos, and I think I probably heard Steve Martin playing, and I said, 'I could do that.' And I said to my husband, I said, 'Ben, can I buy a banjo?' And he's like, 'No.'

Abigail Washburn

When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.

James Mangold

John always said whoever played him, 'make sure they hold the guitar like they own it, that they don't hold it like it's a baby,'

Brad Tolinski

I think it literally might not have occurred to women to pick up a guitar and play.

Steve Stevens

Guitar World ... orchestrates the growls and snarls that come off his guitar much the same way that Bernstein conducts the Philharmonic.

Ryan Key

I think it's time for a face-melting guitar solo.

Robert Cray

She was just another notch on my guitar.

Trini Lopez

I started my career in Dallas, yes. I was born and raised in Dallas. I started my career there when I was very young. My guitar was bigger than I was. That's how young I was.

Woody Guthrie

Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.

Will Ferrell

I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want to make this whole new sound that's going to shock the world. Unfortunately, the masses didn't receive it.

Ritchie Blackmore

I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.

Jostein Gaarder

I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when I'm working on a book.

Mike Darnell

I swear, it must (have been) 13 hours a day, ... And I still do. It's on all the time. I was sort of hypnotized by it as a kid, I think. I just loved it.

Michael Moser

He wants to show respect to the family, and if he were to say anything to the family, it would be he extends his sincere sympathies and they're in his thoughts and prayers. A day doesn't go by, an hour doesn't go by, that he doesn't think about this.

Steve Earle

You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.

Tom Izzo

He's got to be going 100 miles an hour all the time.

Annelise Hoffman

I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time).

Roger Bedford

I think it's an outrage that these hours would be billed on a state holiday,

Brian Mehler

The purpose is to pay them for their work. They worked 20 hours per week -- it's like a part-time job.

Felix Bloch

It is indeed my profession to speak to students and I do this every week for several hours in the lecture rooms of Stanford University.

Bradlee Pelt

Jake knows that he's not John Elway, and I don't think he wants to be. He's Jake Plummer.

Diane Brown

John cooks, that is the arrangement, ... John's a wonderful cook.

Philip Purcell

John and I have never disagreed about the businesses.

John Gartland

John always has a vision, with great, broad-stroked kinds of goals.

Susanne Bier

John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.

Douglas Brinkley

John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.

John Edward

John Kerry has what it takes ... to be president of the United States,

Michael Meehan

John Kerry has a record in the military that he's running on, not from. Everything the U.S. Navy sent to Sen. Kerry, we'll post on the Web site.

Nicholas Burns

John is working very hard, hand-in-glove with Washington on this.

Walter de La Mare

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

Salma Hayek

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

Wayne Dyer

Your lifetime in form is to be honored and celebrated. Go beyond your enslavement, and live fully in the now, as this is the only time you have.

Rick Warren

Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions.

Tony Williams

I played with a lot of organ trios because that was one of the big sounds there, and that's what the original Lifetime really was.

Kerry Packer

You only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime. And I've had mine

Paul Whelton

You can't recreate those samples, ... It's really devastating to the investigators who spent a lifetime putting these studies together faithfully. It's their life's work.

Norman Maclean

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.

Tara Cook

It takes a lifetime to get it down pat. It's not something you can pick up in a matter of weeks or months.

Kim Gandy

We told him what he needed to hear. And I think our messages were received. The vice president shared some of his ideas, listened to ours and offered to have an ongoing dialogue.

Giulio Tremonti

I listened to them and I can now say that I have no objections.

Genderen Stort

Nothing that we proposed was being listened to. The demonstrators on the square wanted something impossible.

John Corbett

It's pretty much all I've listened to since then.

Jean Todt

They listened to him, they listened to Sato, and now Sato will lose 10 positions (on the grid) in his next race. But Michael is going to start (qualifying) third in Brazil, which is no good.

Scott Savin

I walked around and listened to what people said they wanted.

Eddie Trunk

I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and read every liner note and listened to records. My parents are rock fans.

Rick Carrillo

They didn't listen. If they would've listened to me in the corner, they would've won.

Kurt Opsahl

They have listened to us but there's a lot of resistance.

Ken Hill

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Ken Hill

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.

Ken Hill

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Ken Hill

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Jake Brebes

I would say now we?re shooting toward putting the music out in a professional way.

Swae Lee

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

Andrew Lack

has got two revenue streams: one from our music and one from the sale of his iPods.

Graham Elliot

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

Danny Ferry

He could possibly be back and participate in the post-season.

Gregg Zenerovitz

I think we prepared as much as we possibly could. We've done everything we can to improve.

Herb Vincent

We may have an announcement on that very soon, possibly Friday.

Deborah Moggach

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

Lynn Dooley

I don't know what I could ever possibly say to them, because thank you is not enough.

Brandon Orr

He got me started as young as you possibly can.

Ed DeChellis

You can only do so much in one practice. You have an hour-and-a-half practice to put as much as you possibly can in.

Kevin Beary

All we know is he's heavily armed; he's got at least some handguns and possibly a rifle.

Dan Hawkins

The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

Richard Hatch

It's rare to get a really truly wonderfully written, acted and produced sci-fi show, period.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Del Harris

We'll find out, won't we? It has produced 60 wins. But we all know that's not the ultimate goal.

Ryan Phillippe

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

Kerry Johnson

It's been a little tricky getting the teens to know about the dance.

Julie Walters

I was having my teens in my 30s.

Justine Larbalestier

If you're ever invited, fellow YA authors, go. It's the first YA con I've been to that was overwhelming populated by teens. Wonderful!

Luke Ford

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

Loretta Young

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

Lee Johnson

Teens don't want to be different, so they won't tell their peers. They know that they will not understand.

Chris Crutcher

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

Ally Condie

Teens find out a lot from other teens.

Marcia Angell

A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the drugs] were published. But of the thirty-six negative studies, thirty-three were either not published or published in a form that conveyed a positive outcome.

Theophilus London

Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014.

Mike Meador

Thirty years is a long time to do anything.

Stephen Colbert

Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand.