Famous Quotes & Sayings

Derek Halpenny

The broader picture for the yen's decline is down to the continued deterioration in Japan's trade surplus.

Mike Driscoll

Oil is strong and that is helping oil companies, but it is surprising the broader market is as strong as it is, given higher oil prices.

Tom Bailey

I've made rock records, classical records, jazz records, dub records. It always surprises me that people's own listening taste ranges from pop to hip-hop to jazz to rock, but if you're a musician who's been successful in one style, people won't let you have broader musical interests. It's ridiculous, really.

Jeff Moss

I've met some smart people doing security work in the government, and they're starting to reach out to a broader audience, which I think is a good thing.

Tom Rath

'StrengthsFinder 2.0' is an effort to get the core message and language out to a much broader audience. We had no idea how well received the first strengths book would be by general readers - it was oriented more toward managers - or that the energy and excitement would continue to grow.

Rakesh Shankar

Sturdy product inventories should help to temper market fears of energy shortages, and should help cajole broader energy prices lower in the next few weeks.

Jendayi Frazer

So one would hope that China's investment would be broader and that it would contribute not only to China's development and growth ... but it would also contribute to Africa's growth and development.

James Gleick

Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money.

Susanna Kearsley

Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.

Ji-Hae Park

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

Herbie Hancock

I was a jazz purist at the time, I had tunnel vision about jazz and classical music,

Joshua Bell

It's interesting about classical music that the more you hear something, the more you get to know a piece, the better and better it gets, period, which is just an interesting thing on it.

Lola Kirke

We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit themselves to classical arts should be exempt from that.

Frances McDormand

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

Birdy

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

Caitriona Balfe

When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.

David Scott

What this unfortunate Dubai Port episode has done is put a question mark over the United States as a destination for investment.

Ilie Nastase

I am thrilled at the prospect of being in Dubai after more than two decades,

Fareed Zakaria

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.

George Saunders

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

Jim Paul

Around 8 million tourists from all over Europe visited Ireland in 2005, and Dublin is one of the top four destinations in Europe. There is a lot that Indians will like there.

Eddie Palmieri

Same, just the same. Nine pieces ---- a trumpet, two trombones, reed, congas, drums, piano and vocalist. That's what a Latin jazz orchestra should be.

Jane Asher

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

Norman Granz

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

Fats Waller

So easy, when you know how.

Greg Ginn

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

Renaud Vabres

Jazz in New Orleans - that's what the world loves.

Herbie Mann

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Charlie Parker

You've got to learn your instrument.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Denise Bishop

You're sitting here listening to everything we have to say, but there's nothing we can do about this.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Carla Bley

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Alan Vega

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Austin Carlile

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

Barbara Bush

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

Brian May

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Jeff Tweedy

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

Boz Scaggs

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

Arturo Toscanini

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

Demetri Martin

A musical is the same as a burlap sack, I would not want to be in either

Adam Lambert

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

Oscar Isaac

The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.

Alex Trebek

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

Claudio Monteverdi

Text first, rhythm second, melody third.

Chuck Klosterman

Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).

Brian Cox

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Billie Joe Armstrong

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

Tony Levin

Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.

Romain Rolland

Everything is music for the born musician.

Mary Timony

I feel really different from other musicians.

Elvis Costello

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.

Greg Giraldo

If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

Frank Zappa

I'm just one of these unpopular musicians.

Wayne Shorter

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Ted Eubanks

People travel for the experience. They want to try on your lives.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Philip Hoffman

People thought they had me pegged because of the way I am, because of the way I talk, ... And they're always wrong.

Doug Myers

People think we're taking something away, but they've never been listed.

Worsie Gregory

People think we have nothing to offer. They'll be amazed.

Angela Leisure

People think they know him, but they don't. I see him only as my child.

Waris Ahluwalia

People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

Kay Bell

People think they have even more time, and they're putting it off even further.

John Jones

It wouldn't have taken much to just pop over, would it?

Kelly Wood

The population is healthy, but it's not like we've got a lot of them.

Cynthia Reichelt

We really don't want it to pop over that ridge top.

David Bennett

We were doing things tonight they teach you not to do in Pop Warner.

Laura Merritt

We shut them down and another one pops up.

Allen Ginsberg

It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.

Clayton Christensen

It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.

Ang Lee

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

David Dreier

We know it may not be the single most popular thing, but it's the right thing to do.

Meghan Trainor

Any body type is beautiful. It's all about loving what you got and rocking it.

Brandon Thomas

Even though were not the most punk rock band, the way weve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

Brenda Lee

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

Ben Gibbard

The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.

Carrot Top

When I was younger I always thought, 'If I were ever a comedian I'd make it like a rock concert.' I wanted to generate that type of enthusiasm and excitement.

Bart Chilton

I would pale in comparison to rock and rollers with my haircut. I would be a lightweight.

Craig Finn

When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

Bobby Vinton

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

Billy Bob Thornton

If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We didn't have to create angst. We didn't have to create desire. We didn't have to say, see we were screwed, my generation, because we wanted to be The Beatles or Elvis Presley. That ain't going to happen. So we always had this thing to reach for.

Bob Freehan

This is not a new thing. It has been successful in other schools.

Brett Hull

I think the biggest thing for me is being able to adjust to the way the game has changed. It's basically a 180-degree turn from the style I like to play. That's what I think I'm most proud of, being able to fit into this style of game and still be fairly successful.

Benjamin Disraeli

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Brian Tracy

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Brian Tracy

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

Brian Tracy

The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be.

Jamie Dimon

I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.

Celine Dion

I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them.

Billy Donovan

I don't think anything surprises at least me any more in this tournament.

Peter Gade

Anyway, in the new system, many surprises could happen.

Franz Beckenbauer

It only surprises me that no one thought of it before.

Al Aqsa

This is taste of even more to come,

Bon Scott

It's nothing to do with us at all, our success is due to the taste of the public.

Aristophanes

It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.

Charles Bukowski

An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.

Edvard Grieg

I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

Coolio

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Clive Barker

You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug.

Alphonse de Lamartine

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

Aldous Huxley

The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.