Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Danko

Bob wrote the song during The Basement Tapes time period; we put it on Music From Big Pink. Richard did a great job singing it in falsetto.

Jim Pappas

We got out of the basement of the Raccoon River Conference and we then wrestled our very best at districts.

Dave Kolesar

There's a group of maybe up to a dozen of my friends. We all go into my basement on a Friday night and put on a free-form show.

Judith Jamison

I smelled the same smells as a kid growing up in my little house in Philadelphia. My father used the basement as his craft shop. And when I smelled the wood and saw the shine of the stainless steel set, it brought a tear to my eye.

Robert Coleman

From my basement I heard an explosion and I ran and I called for my family to come downstairs. And I saw fire bursting out of the basement, so I got them as quickly as I can and I came outside and the fire started upstairs.

Andy Engel

If the basement is just damp or smells a little musty, generally, a properly sized dehumidifier works just fine.

Paul Westerberg

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.

William Mills

I took a set of the foundation and basement plans home and worked on the dining room table and came up with a figure of $400,000, ... Bids were received by Maas Brothers, and the lowest was more than three times my estimate.

Mike Fratello

That's who Bobby is. That's his style of play. He's a high-energy guy. He can be instant offense. He can cause havoc on the defensive end. ... It's like a personality trait. Everybody doesn't have that. But he does.

Rob Schremp

What we need to do is hit Bobby Ryan a little more. He's a tough guy and he's trying to get through the neutral zone a little too easily. Maybe we need a good open-ice hit or a few more hits to slow him down. We do that, maybe we do a better job of shutting him down.

Tommy Bond

The reason that MGM hired Bobby for Our Gang was that they could look at him and say, cry, and he'd cry, and not many kids can do that unless they really want to cry.

John McGrath

We heard Bob Dylan singing up on the hill.

Folks still remember the day ole Bob Riley came bouncing down that dirt road in his pickup. Pretty soon, it was bouncing higher and higher. The tires popped, and the shocks broke, but that truck kept bouncing. Some say it bounced clean over the moon, but whoever says that is a goddamn liar.

Helen Chandler

Bob was terrified of dancing. He thought it was for sissies.

Walt Jocketty

Bob likes the way we've done things in St. Louis. I told him I've worked with Mo for nine or 10 years, and he's been a big part of the operation.

Tom Meeker

Bob Lewis was a treasured member of the Kentucky Derby family and a friend to everyone in Thoroughbred racing.

Michael Mando

'Better Call Saul' happens in the same universe as 'Breaking Bad,' and we have the same writers and mostly the same crew. Like 'Breaking Bad,' it is a transformation story, and Bob Odenkirk brings his own distinctive flavour.

Geddy Lee

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

Rick Danko

Well, it's just always the same. It's the same arrangements. It's the same if I'm playing bass, if I'm playing guitar, if I'm playing piano.

Geddy Lee

I like to feel I can use any piece of equipment that strikes me at the time and I don't want to be overly obliging to any company.

Randy Bachman

The first album's influences were James Taylor and Coco, and then they switched to Credence Clearwater Revival and Rolling Stones on the second.

Sebastian Bach

They don't have the edge that I need. I'm not interested in reliving 1988.

Corey Hart

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.

Paul Anka

My demographic of people have been very supportive.

Paul Anka

I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.

Eric San

We're on tour to kind of explain why we do what we do, how its done and how we put it together.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Tim Cox

The students have been great and have worked very hard,

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Ratner

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Brian Sandoval

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

Henry Lewis

The music, the dress, the color, the stage settings ? there's nothing in the world like it. The whole of Massachusetts should rush here, honestly.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Aretha Franklin

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Brian Setzer

Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

Charles Kingsley

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

James Young

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

James Young

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

James Young

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

Janis Joplin

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Bruce Willis

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

Linda Eder

Though it's a tribute to her, ... I'm not sitting there thinking 'How can I do it just like her' when I'm singing these songs.

Andrea Corr

I really love singing.

Andrea Bocelli

Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

Amy Winehouse

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Alfredo Kraus

I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.

Alfredo Kraus

Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

Peggy Lee

Sometimes I want to revive a song or medley I did that went over with the crowd.

Brandon Heath

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

Jana Kramer

I never want to be too mean with my songs, but with I Hope It Rains it was definitely somewhere in the middle with being sassy but also a little class in there as well. It was a good blend for me and who I want to be perceived as an artist.

Ben E. King

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

Carl Sandburg

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me."

Cameron Crowe

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

Miley Cyrus

I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.

Miley Cyrus

A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.

Busta Rhymes

I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.

Ronnie Milsap

As far as I know, no tapes exist from my years at 'T.J.'s.' I wish they did.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Brian Andreas

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Jan Timman

The best reason to abolish it, in my opinion, is that everyone should deal with his time in the best way; there is no good reason why you should get half a minute extra with each move, except that it's a bit easier for the arbiter.

Laetitia Casta

It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

Mike DeWine

This is really what we anticipated when we wrote the law,

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.