Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vince Gill

That's the one thing that is really timeless is the songs. The artistry, the popularity of the artistry, that's going to come and go.

Bobby Hatfield

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

John Fahey

I know many inferior guitarists who are very proud of the fact that they are as good as they are, when in fact they are only moderately good.

Dee Dee Ramone

I like it when Iggy Pop plays his old stuff, so I know how the fans feel. But it was my show, so I made the final decisions on what was played.

Jewel

I'm fairly specific about what I like to wear and looks are important to me, just like they are to everybody.

Janet Jackson

I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

Rosanne Cash

I love live performance because it only happens for that two hours or whatever. It's so ephemeral and that makes it so beautiful to me.

Rita Coolidge

The first record company was in Japan, and then we came back to U.S., and Concord Records was the label that came on board. I love Concord.

Jack Irons

The end of 1996 and beginning of 1997 brought a Pearl Jam European tour and the beginnings of preparation for the recordings of "Yield.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Missy Elliot

The biggest surprise with the show is I didn't think it was gonna be that emotional. I thought it was just gonna be a regular reality show.

The bodies lay on the ground like damaged goods from a warehouse.

Ronnie Hawkins

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

Ike Turner

The basic tracks I originally cut on a computer at my house, and then I over-dubbed it live. But I got the feeling I wanted here on the computer.

Bob Mould

The best scenario is where people support the artist directly. We're a ways from that yet-if people can get it for free, why would they pay?

Danny Elfman

The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult.

Jon Crosby

The audience that surprised us the most was definitely Paris, when we played there last. They were just incredibly into us and we weren't expecting it at all.

Mose Allison

These people that think I'm cynical, I wish they'd come to see my shows these days because I've turned into a comedian, practically.

Joe Henderson

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.

Clay Aiken

I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

Mike Gordon

I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since he's the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it's a little harder for me to hook up with him.

Ani Difranco

Art is why I get up in the morning; my definition ends there. You know it doesn't seem fair, that I'm living for something I can't even define. And there you are right there, in the mean time.

Charlie Hunter

Anyone playing with you is going to change where your direction is.

James Iha

It's probably getting our old drummer back and actually playing as a band. And, I don't know, it sounds like what we do best right now.

Deana Carter

It's my sick fantasy to be a Cosmo cover.