Famous Quotes & Sayings

The boys on Pennsylvania Avenue have convinced a whole lot of the public that What's His Whiskers had something to do with 9/11. Stay tuned.

Rita Coolidge

That's why Peggy remained so important to me. I could listen to any one of the hundreds of songs I have by her, and they're just fabulous.

Kim Deal

It's like they had a backlash the first 11 years. I think the reason why it always seems like there's a backlash is because when bands are unknown, they only get written about by fans.

Kerry King

When we finally got to play that and we had a great show there, well I can tell it was pretty awesome. Y'know, we probably did bigger festivals since then; we probably headlined bigger festivals since then, but I will always remember that.

Tim Buckley

We try to recruit good players and good people.

Eydie Gorme

I learned my phrasing from Frank. I loved him so much.

Earl Scruggs

I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.

June Carter Cash

Every dog has his day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weak-end.

Luther Allison

Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.

Luther Allison

I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.

Luther Allison

But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job.

Luther Allison

So I cut out all the drinkin' and hangin' out and stuff like that early on.

Luther Allison

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

Lionel Hampton

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.

Lionel Hampton

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

The process of putting the DVD and the CD together was great fun, because it provided a good excuse for the four of us to make time to get together again. I am especially pleased with the end result of these two projects.

Isaac Hanson

We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.

Bruce Hornsby

No, I do it all, but I do love to play solo.

Billy Higgins

The United States is a beautiful place, you know?

Billy Higgins

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

Judy Collins

If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful.

Judy Collins

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

John Frusciante

You just never know when somebody's gonna die. It could happen at any moment so you've got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.

Joan Baez

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

Dick Dale

You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

Juliana Hatfield

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

Cab Calloway

Well, he didn't have much of a conversation with me. Not that I can remember. I wasn't used to him. That's about all. I don't know. No conversation.

Sammy Hagar

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

Jeff Ament

Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

Mike Love

Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island, ... They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.

Jackie DeShannon

Every day I'm doing things, it's surprising to me, because this is about what following your passion does - it moves you, you don't move it.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

As the years of work passed at the Smithsonian as a scholar, I realized that Howard had trained me well for the work I wanted to do.