Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurie Anderson

The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.

Isaac Hanson

The thing about us is, we're very eclectic; we end up with a lot of songs that have very different styles, very different stylistically.

Afrika Bambaataa

The thing about Hip Hop today and music in general is that the people who created it meaning Blacks and Latinos do not control it no more.

Jerry Harrison

The thing about being an artist is that if you put out a record and the record company drops the ball, you can be set back for years.

Joe Henderson

I've lived nearby since 1981 and probably have averaged one run a week there. That's more than 1000 repetitions, and I have yet to tire of this course.

Coolio

I've basically got an album full of singles.

I've always been a tapper, as in, on tables, school desks, my legs and chest. I've eventually been able to figure out how to move that to the guitar.

Edgar Winter

I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day... every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.

Jon Crosby

I wanted to do that again but, when I went to look for chants, I didn't want to do it in the exact same way.

Debbie Gibson

The music now is about my personal life, where I'm at as a 24-year-old young woman, so it's very honest and it's very pure and it's very emotional.

Tom Glazer

The Musicians was recorded as a quartet by Dinah Shore, Phil Harris, Tony Martin and Betty Hutton. It was not a hit; it came and went.

Merrill Markoe

A few last men to beware: guys who won't remove their hats and sunglasses - they think you're too thick to notice the stuff they think they're hiding.

John Fogerty

The ones I have got great necks; of course, all of the Fenders from that era are incredible.

Stephen Stills

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there.

Pat Mastelotto

After I helped on P4 mixing and saw how things were being done I offered to take care of Project 3, and on it went from there. Plus I'm way cheap.

Jessi Colter

After I began writing, I thought, I'm on to something, but it's kind of radical and certainly very vulnerable and very different.

Joe Henderson

A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.

Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

LaToya Jackson

Subconsciously it was a test to see if my parents could love me as the woman I was now, not as the little girl they'd tried so hard to make.

Laurie Anderson

Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life.

Method Man

Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one.

Joe Henderson

Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily.

Grandmaster Flash

So what the owners see is that we are fighting amongst each other and causing controversy, but as long as it's selling records they don't care.

Josh Homme

So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.

Kerry King

So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me.

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

Martin Denny

Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone.

Doc Severinsen

Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Thank you for all the love you gave me. There could be no one stronger. Thank you for the many beautiful songs. They will live long and longer.

Vance Havner

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, ''Shake well before using.'' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Danny Elfman

Sometimes you get real close, sometimes you don't. Sometimes they drive you crazy. I think every composer does that. That's a big part of the job.

Matt Cameron

Sometimes when you hear recordings of live shows it just doesn't even capture what you're experiencing. So, I think that's more for the fans.

Jon Crosby

Sometimes music is an escape from things, from the way you feel. It's cathartic. Dwelling in the negativity all the time, it starts to not be real.