Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Cropper

My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music.

Charlie Hunter

Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.

LaToya Jackson

Now that it's out, I feel free - like a bird that's been let out of a cage. For the first time in my life, I feel free to live my life, my dreams.

Chad Hugo

Groups like The Mountain Brothers just have to keep on doing what they're doing - just make it dope and just make it different. And not try to compete with other people of color.

Jon Crosby

'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally.

For some time I've had my eye on Tom McCall's seat - which is a great deal more than he's had on it.

John Abercrombie

I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.

Stan Kenton

I don't think you can replaces great themes. But I think people do want to hear fresh arrangements of them. They don't want to hear them played the same way all the time.

Stone Gossard

If it had remained always my band, my natural tendency would have been to get more complex and arrange things more and more. That wouldn't necessarily be good for Eddie, or anyone else in the band.

If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks.

Don Ellis

I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out.

Doc Severinsen

He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson.

Reba McEntire

I always thought that was so strange that people would try to corral you and pigeonhole you in one category and not play you anywhere else.

Lee Konitz

One of the most interesting recordings I ever heard was hearing Tristano and Charlie Parker playing together. They were both at their peak.

Coolio

I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day... I got to go to school for free.

Jessi Colter

I was hanging out with Shooter, running the streets with the musicians who were really into their music. That's what made me feel good.

Garth Brooks

I was going to audition for this baseball movie Kevin Costner's making called For the Love of the Game, but the scheduling couldn't be worked out.

Nick Cannon

I was attracted from day one. How could you not be attracted to someone who has a great spirit on the inside and beautiful on the outside?

Jimmy Carl Black

I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.

Tracy Chapman

I would have liked to have had a little break after I made the record before I started this part of it, but it's best for me to get right into it.

John Fogerty

I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear.

Charlie Hunter

If we really wanted to be cool, and everyone in the world had Pro Tools, we could just put it up on the internet and everyone could make their own record out of it.

Glenn Danzig

I got tired of complaining about this or that so I just decided to amass, in my opinion, the best artists and some of the best writers.

Sam Rivers

I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.

Donnie Iris

Sure, I was depressed for a while. But I was just happy we had a hit. It was cool to know that the band was still together and had gigs to play.

Steve produced Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys and one more. Then he and I wrote a few songs together and became good friends. He was a talented producer.

Juliana Hatfield

Some of the songs are so crazy, the words are so crazy... it's hard to believe I was so crazy.

Sheryl Crow

Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people.

Billy Eckstine

That diatonic scale gives up pretty songs over and over and over and over again, and it's up to you to enjoy it, and I do. I enjoy the business.

Jerry Harrison

My style is not as defined as someone like Terry Lewis or Jimmy Jam, but when you listen to records I've made, there's a consistency about them.

Sammy Hagar

My only commitment to Geffen was a week's worth of press in New York, plus a week in Los Angeles,and that would end my involvement.

Dennis Wilson

My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.

Vanessa Carlton

My room says that I was about 3, but it seems to be getting younger and younger to the point where I was, like, a fetus when I was playing.