Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Duke

I think I made my mark playing instruments like the Minimoog, because I learnt how to make them talk; I learnt how to get the blues out of them.

Jimmy Carl Black

I think he might miss everything he used to do but I don't know that for a fact. His wife is probably the only one that does. A sweet lady.

Leo Kottke

It depends on the time of the year and who I've been talking to, I try to put people in the studio I like.

Glenn Danzig

Comics wouldn't look the way they do right now - and some of the stories you're seeing - would not be the way they are if it wasn't for us.

Jack Irons

I became unsure about the future, in terms of my career. I was living in a remote location contemplating other kinds of work, not only in music.

John Fogerty

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

Solomon Burke

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

Gavin DeGraw

I think it's important not to worry about that too much, because even if I was the next big thing, there would be another next big thing soon.

Jimmy Chamberlin

What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.

Bobby Hatfield

With me and Bill... I think we started out with $15 apiece and split the other $20 between the band.

Jewel

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

Gerry Beckley

It is not that there wasn't an incredible amount of history made that was very public knowledge for those seven years which was the bulk of the hits.

Vince Gill

It is harder to fail than it is to succeed because most people are going to watch you do is to react to what you've accomplished.

Scott Joplin

It is never right to play ragtime fast.

I went out to visit Dorsey Burnette, after I graduated high school.

Steve Cropper

I went from the really crude way we had of recording in Memphis to working with the top engineers and technologies in Los Angeles.

Mary Ritter Beard

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Jonathan Richman

Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect!

Robby Krieger

We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.

Connie Francis

He was right about country music. He used to listen to this disc jockey, Jerry Brenner in New York, who would play country music once a week.

Joe Williams

I don't have any skeletons in my closet.

Bob Crosby

I didn't want to be compared with Bing.

Ray Conniff

I didn't get paid. I didn't even care that I didn't get paid.

Max Roach

I'd like to build what I call an oasis.

Gary Cherone

I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.

John Fogerty

I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs.

Dizzy Gillespie

I don't care too much about music. What I like is sounds.

Gary Cherone

I could see the tension between Sam and Dave. Sammy had a career before Hagar and people hated him out of their loyalty to Dave.

Wanda Jackson

I'd been working with Elvis, but I just recorded Country, so he, definitely, like you said, encouraged me to try it, but I didn't, right then.

Joanna Newsom

I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.

Steve Cropper

I am a very lucky guy. I've had a great career and I still get to do it and get to hang out with all these wonderful people. It's just a blast.

Hazel Scott

We can either be ugly and contemptuous in our behavior, which will turn people off, or else we can carry ourselves with dignity and pride.

Norman Granz

Today it's rare to find a major artist that would be willing to break up his own group. They need the musical security their own groups give them.