Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian MacKaye

If you grew up in Washington, D.C., you also know that there is no entertainment industry in this town, particularly not any local.

If you feel you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

Leo Kottke

If you get really worn out that's frequently a good way to get an idea because your usual noise isn't happening and they can come through easier.

Robert Goulet

If you do a musical you can't change the dialogue; it has been written for you. You can't change the music every night, you have to sing it that way.

Ray Conniff

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.

Aaliyah

In this business, it is very hard to have anything for yourself, because you become a public figure. That comes with the territory.

Ruth Brown

In those days, as I always tell B.B and Buddy Guy and these guys and gave them a place to cry like a man without having to do it.

Kristin Hersh

In the end I'm mother, so they take the bitter with the sweet. They listen to the music and they go on tour sometimes, It feels OK most of the time.

Carl Wilson

In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.

Robby Krieger

In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.

Tom Glazer

In the 50s, I wrote the lyrics to an old melody called Melody of Love, which was number one for a while. It later turned into a major hit.

Insurance is really based on looking at the past.

Jimmy Carl Black

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.

Harry Belafonte

I not only think that they are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing, and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil.

Mike Gordon

I like to be sort of grounded with Fish. But, at the same time, I think probably what's unique about us is the way other dynamics happen, where I'll play off Trey for awhile. When we start playing a jam, I don't usually know what's going to happen, I don't have a plan.

Lesley Gore

I just never found it was necessary because I really never kept my life private. Those who knew me, those who worked with me were well aware.

Jewel

I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn't good.

Lindsey Buckingham

I think now we're doing the best work we've ever done. Whether or not that's recognized yet is irrelevant to me. I know how I feel about it.

Jeff Tweedy

I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next.

Freddie Hubbard

I quite drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

Jello Biafra

I realized later on that a lot of times I'd go back to Colorado to hide from all the mayhem in San Francisco so I could get songs written.

Jim Messina

I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared.

John Abercrombie

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

Alice Cooper

City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.

Peabo Bryson

Being at Windham Hill now has made me more appreciative of the people who still believe in the things that I believe in, that are a part of me.

Bobby Sherman

Being involved with show business gave me a lot of experience in dealing with stress, which, in a way, prepared me for my career as a medic.

Eydie Gorme

I always wanted to be a band singer, and of course it was the total end of the big band, but I got the last job. It was a very lucky break.

Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated.

Taylor Dayne

I never even did blow; I had no desire.

Archie Shepp

In Europe it evolved out of a whole intellectual process. The European intellectuals were and are very much into so-called avant-garde music.

In electronics the prices are always getting lower, and that isn't true of much else.

I named the band. Our father wrote a song for us when we were little boys. It said, "I'm just a lonely, lonely boy ... I'm just a lonely, lonely boy." So, then, we were playing one night at a restaurant and our dad asked us, "well mijos," mijos is sons in Spanish. He said, "If we're going to do this, we need to have a name." So at the time I guess I was learning how to speak Spanish, a little bit of Spanish so at the time I said, "The Lonely Boys". And then I said, "Los is 'the', so, Los Lonely Boys." And then it just stuck and that was it ever since.