Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Roach

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

Jeff Ament

We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.

Grandmaster Flash

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.

Gary Cherone

We brought out the old catalog and the majority of the Van Halen fans did appreciate it, but in the end, they wanted their Dave.

Leo Kottke

I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out.

Leo Kottke

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.

The boys on Pennsylvania Avenue have convinced a whole lot of the public that What's His Whiskers had something to do with 9/11. Stay tuned.

Dwight Yoakam

A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

Mickey Gilley

Back then I thought if you cut a record, you were automatically a star.

Jon Crosby

Back then, I remember there was a lot of alternative pop going on - that slow, weak, kind of apathetic independent rock stuff, but that's gone now.

Lionel Hampton

That was a big deal at the time, because no blacks were integrated with whites in anything - not in sports, basketball, football, nothing.

Mickey Gilley

Ray Stevens also made a good success of it. He sold it, but financed the sale himself. Now, I just read where he's going to be back!

Joe Henderson

Ours is a life of constant reruns. We're always circling back to where we'd we started, then starting all over again. Even if we don't run extra laps that day, we surely will come back for more of the same another day soon.

Jeff Ament

People see Eddie for 20 seconds at the Grammys and think, Goddamn, he must be like this all the time. I feel sorry for his friends.

Joe Williams

People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.

Bruce Springsteen

People deserve. . . the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Don Ellis

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.

John Fahey

Oh, 1962. The music scene was so bad that several of us decided to come out to Berkeley and take over the folk music scene here.

Kerry King

Of course we are doing this primarily for ourselves, but I know our fans dig most of it, too.

Barry White

After reading the book, I hope young people will see how I changed my life and how it's up to them to make changes in their own lives to succeed.

Mike Gordon

Actually Fish and I had this side band that played a lot of Dead covers and stuff, called the Dangerous Grapes. Also Allmans, typical blues stuff.

Chico Hamilton

Coming out of the big bands, I started accompanying, and I guess that is what led up to it. Because I learned quite a bit, by being an accompanist.

Duke Ellington

A problem is your chance to do your best.

Merle Haggard

And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything.

Charlie Hunter

And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

Stewart Copeland

And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio.

Steve Albini

These letters never have any term of expiration, so the band remain bound by the deal memo until a contract is signed, no matter how long that takes.

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Jewel

The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.

James Smith

The three black graces, Law, Physic, and Divinity.

Julio Iglesias

The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I've showed them a certain respect for this career.

Otis Williams

The Tempts have always been known for great lead singers. Today we have three of the greatest leads in the proud history of the group.