Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Fahey

As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you.

Lee Konitz

As soon as I play full bodied, I block out the rest of the sound. I'm just looking for the right note to fit the chords I'm hearing.

George Duke

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.

Chico Hamilton

At Ronnie's, we had young kids who enjoyed it so much they came in every night. Something else - a lot of the old jazz diehards dug it, too.

Bootsy Collins

Coming from the James Brown school, I had learned a lot of stuff before I got with George. It was from one extreme to the other.

Discharge is my first. I love Black Flag and all those guys. And Ramones, of course. And then I like Blondie,.. a little lighter.

Digital technology development has reached warp speed in the last few years.

Contempt for the world is what allows me to continue living in it.

Peter Buck

We're the acceptable edge of the unacceptable stuff.

Pat Boone

We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now.

Pat Boone

In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

Pat Benatar

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

Paul Butterfield

I think I'm better than all the people who are trying to reform me.

Paul Butterfield

I guess if you stay around long enough, they can't get rid of you.

Patsy Cline

I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again!

Patsy Cline

I'm gonna walk a little bit of dog.

Patsy Cline

I'm at that point again where it don't matter where he is to me anymore.

Patsy Cline

I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage.

Patsy Cline

I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.

Martha Reeves

A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit.

Stan Getz

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

Stan Getz

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

Stone Gossard

But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

Josh Homme

Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.

Travis Barker

We didn't hold ourselves to a standard that said we needed a certain type of song because that's the type we had on the last album.

Jeff Ament

We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute.

Danny Elfman

You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff.

Vanilla Ice

With radio limitations as far as length of songs and content, sometimes if you are being conscious of that then that effects the outcome of a song.

Peter Criss

You guys rock, I mean, come on... You really show your appreciation big-time right in your face, and that's what KISS has always been about.

Gavin DeGraw

To me, all I ever want to do is play, and nothing else ever crossed my mind concerning a career. Just playing. Only the execution of the songs.

Philip Emeagwali

The reason is that the Patent and Trademark Office can deny patents to inventors that publicly provided details of their invention.

Gary Cherone

There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.