Famous Quotes & Sayings

Duncan Sheik

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.

Lou Gramm

A lot of times Mick will play me different things, or I'll listen to a cassette, and out of twenty ideas or whatever, I'll find two or three that are just blowing me away, and we'll start working on them right away.

Janet Jackson

A lot of times I felt so alone. But I also thought there has to be other people that have experienced either what I have, or close to it.

Lesley Gore

You know, that doesn't happen anymore, so when it started getting played, we weren't prepared for it. We didn't even know it had been released.

Gregg Allman

You couldn't get a job playing in a club unless you played so much Top 40 and so many Beatles songs. I just went into a sort of revolt.

Norman Granz

You can't have a finale that runs one hour. So you give each man 40 minutes or so, and you say: Let's do a jam session at the end with the leaders.

Cab Calloway

You can't say they look up to him - if you did, you've got to look up to everybody in the show. But he's an outstanding character in the show.

James Iha

You can't really compare because I played with these guys for 2 months and the Pumpkins I've played with for 12 years, so I can't really compare it.

Charlie Hunter

The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.

Stanley Clarke

The main thing that everyone was looking for in selecting which songs would go on this anthology were the ones in which the bass was really prominent.

Jimmy Chamberlin

The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level.

Warren Cuccurullo

You want to know why you are at a certain body weight and body fat percentage and that's knowing exactly what you eat all of the time.

Chad Hugo

You've come to me now at this point in time, when The Neptunes are just now getting our light.

Vince Gill

And just, once again, the connection there that was kind of rare was - it was - it felt - everything felt familiar, you know, when I met Amy.

Guy Clark

And it's just something that's always come very naturally to me. And I built about, I don't know, six, seven, eight guitars in Texas in the late 60s.

Chico Hamilton

And it's impossible for me to have those players play with me at this stage of the game; all those guys are famous and, I suppose, wealthy now.

Mike Curb

And looking at the landslides, you saw how Gore beat Bush so substantially in California.

Stone Gossard

And I think all of those get touched on with the idea of bikes and of small communities becoming more interconnected. we're pretty fractured I think.

Jimmy Buffett

And now, you dress if you go. They looked like Deadheads with a little better wardrobe so that's how the name sort of originated.

Stone Gossard

And I remember as a second or third grader having some autonomy to go to the store if I felt like it, walk home, take my time, kick the can. We were on our own schedule after school, so that was cool.

Elliott Smith

And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.

Mike Gordon

This is my second bass that Paul built me. There were some changes that were made. Sometimes I think of changes that could be made having to do with both the sound and the feel. It's definitely a beautiful instrument.

Puff Daddy

This is my 10-year anniversary producing, making music and... you're not what you were 10 years ago. It's just a natural evolution and having wisdom.

Mickey Gilley

A lost of people recognize me and maybe will ask for an autograph, but it's nothing like if Elvis would've done something like that, 'cause he's so popular, or maybe The Beatles 'cause they stirred up a lot of action.

Jimmy Chamberlin

All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it.

Joe Henderson

A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.

Joe Henderson

The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are.

Randy Travis

You don't have to get beat up as many times as I did to come to your senses. Certainly I wish I'd come to mine earlier than I did.

Alan Jackson

For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists that sing real traditional stuff, so I don't know why they picked me. That's what I've always done.

John Fogerty

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

Stone Gossard

Eddie is a natural leader. Jeff and I have been very much in control of previous bands we've worked in. But the way Eddie grew into being the leader of this band was the most gradual, slow and respectful process that I've ever been involved in.

Janet Jackson

Eddie in costume and make-up with that famous laugh, the minute the cameras started rolling, he became each character. It was amazing!

Lee Konitz

Each of these instruments has a voice, and if I hear a sound on an instrument that I don't like, I'm not interested usually in what he plays.