Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Rowe

He used to be bigger. It's kind of like Charles Barkley. If you can play with it, don't mess with it.

Quincy Jones

I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.

H. Hunt

He's been a great friend to the St. Charles Singers.

Robert Gottlieb

'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance.

Martin Charnin

That song is gone, it's gone, it's gone. Charles and I have often looked at one another and can't even remember the lyric or the tune.

Don Dixon

Take a message to the nonbelievers: Nothing happened. The evacuees are law-abiding citizens. In fact, our crime rate in Lake Charles has dropped in the last two weeks,

Adam Ereli

The US is deeply concerned by reports that Charles Taylor fled.

Scott Monarch

Normally, Charles (Bronson) has been doing that, but Brandon stepped up and did a great job. He got a little confidence going and he did a great job. They (Navarro) were doing such a great job of pressuring our wings that we had to get some inside relief to the pressure.

Joe Adams

Despite his enormous success, artistically and financially, Ray Charles was a humble man,

Wayne Allen

Have we ever looked at something like that?

Jim Murphy

He's a special kid. He's someone to be looked at down the road.

Mike Price

He's just running around a little bit. He looked good, though.

Tyler Azzarelli

We thought we had a chance. At that moment, we all kind of looked at each other in unspoken words and said we could do this.

Ben Kugler

We looked at what would it take to be a winner and not a casualty.

Paul Merson

He was poor. But he's the only one who looked like scoring.

Lindy Ruff

He was strong for us, and looked comfortable.

Bobby Bowden

He was the quarterback who looked like a guard. But I remember his rollout passes.

Kurt Schuette

He hasn't competed in a while, but he's looked very well in practice. He played well in the qualifying round.

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.

Boris Pasternak

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

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.

Rosaleen Tallon

It is all wrong in its symbolism. I look up to the sky to remember him. I will never go down.

Denise Moore

He never remembers us together. This is the only time he remembers me is in prison.

Richard Paul Evans

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

Richelle Mead

„Ma'am?“ She glanced up at me, pushing her glasses up her nose as she did. “Hmm? Oh, I remember you. Miss Melbourne.“ “Melrose,“ I corrected. “Are you sure? I could've sworn you were named after someplace in Australia.“ „Well, my first name is Sydney,“ I said, not sure if I should be encouraging her.

Sandra Cisneros

I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.

Zora Neale Hurston

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

Vince Staples

I remember, once, my sister used to tell me that they found me in the trash-can when I was younger, so one time I pushed my sister into a trash-can - I put it over her head and pushed her down the street. And then after that, we been close ever since.

Lane Olinghouse

Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust?

Rodel Natividad

If you think someone is weird, remember that they are probably thinking the same of you.

Ricky Fante

I wrote the song in tribute ... at the time she was murdered,

Dan Hill

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

Robert Cray

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

Rob Sheffield

The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent Dinosaur Jr. song. A compulsion compels you; an impulse impels you. Nobody ever says 'compulse' or 'impulse' as a verb. So why would you ever say 'repulse'? This word haunts me in my sleep, like a silver dagger dancing before my eyes. Renee looked it up and I was wrong. But I still kind of think I'm right.

Rob Sheffield

A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

Rob Sheffield

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

Rob Sheffield

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

Rob Sheffield

If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it recapture memories of things that used to be. But music is greedy and it wants more of your heart than that. It demands the future, your future. Music wants the rest of your life. So you can't rest easy. At any moment, a song can come out of nowhere to shake you up, jump-start your emotions, ruin your life.

Rob Zombie

A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, "We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song." You better find a new ending then, because unless you have $2 million for that song.