Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Short

I listen constantly to classical music and I find that stretches my imagination. I listen to some contemporary and even cutting-edge things.

Clay Aiken

I'm being trained to shake the bon-bon appropriately.

Steve Albini

I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.

Les Claypool

I'm an old man. I'm going to start writing my book tomorrow. Really though, I've got some awesome memories and stories. It's all good.

Michelle Shocked

I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.

Amy Lee

If people make fun of you, it probably means you're doing something right.

Jules Shear

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

Carl Wilson

I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

Glen Campbell

I love playing in the South, ... I play lots of concerts in Cleveland and Boston and other cities up North, but I don't feel as comfortable as I do when I'm home in the South.

Trick Daddy

I'll probably have a lot of rap cats come on up.

Jimmy Carl Black

I know I didn't like that dress 'cause it didn't fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren't the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us.

Jackie Jackson

I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.

John Fahey

I know many inferior guitarists who are very proud of the fact that they are as good as they are, when in fact they are only moderately good.

Jewel

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

Wayne Coyne

In this gap where your mind is stretching itself to keep the music going it hits you as a new music experience. We were excited about it.

Iris Dement

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music-I spend so much time working at my own music.

Mickey Gilley

I have the restaurant, too. I serve Southwest, barbecue.

Jimmy Carl Black

I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so.

Peter Criss

I haven't lost my temper in years, and I do have a bad temper. I was doing "Beth" and this laser was hitting me, it was really making me nuts.

Jimmy Carl Black

I really like playing live and don't mind being on the road, if it's with the right band. I do like creating in the studio and enjoy the end results.

Lou Gramm

I really feel that I am ready to get back in the saddle and work with Mick. Everybody in the band, including management, is excited about it.

Adrian Belew

I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder.

I produced a song for Bobby Vee called Get The Message.

Robert Cray

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.

Jon Crosby

I'm really happy with Elektra, I don't have anything bad to say about them at all. I always knew a major label was the right place for me to be. I never really had an opportunity to go to an independent label anyway.

Scotty Moore

I'm real proud of the fact that I believe that whatever kind of music a person likes, I believe he'll find at least one cut on there to really enjoy.

Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media.

Tom Glazer

I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression.

Leonard Rose

I'm somewhat sorry that I did not stay with Frank longer because he really gave me a first class beginning of technique on the instrument.

If men liked shopping, they'd call it research.

Sol Hurok

If I would be in this business for business, I wouldn't be in this business.

Phil Harris

I have not followed Lou's career on a day to day basis, but am quite aware of it and he should be proud of all of his accomplishments.

Lindsey Buckingham

I had to seal off my feelings about Stevie while seeing her every day and having to help her, too. But you get on with it. What was happening to the band was much bigger than any of that.