Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rita Coolidge

That's why Peggy remained so important to me. I could listen to any one of the hundreds of songs I have by her, and they're just fabulous.

Joe Henderson

That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.

Vince Gill

Your talent level, as the years go by, you know, you're going to lose a little bit of what you used to be able to do, like an athlete.

Randy Jackson

You're one of the most natural, great singers I've heard in a long time.

Crystal Gayle

You're either in it for the long haul or you're not.

John Hartford

You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

Kim Deal

It's like they had a backlash the first 11 years. I think the reason why it always seems like there's a backlash is because when bands are unknown, they only get written about by fans.

Kerry King

When we finally got to play that and we had a great show there, well I can tell it was pretty awesome. Y'know, we probably did bigger festivals since then; we probably headlined bigger festivals since then, but I will always remember that.

Tim Buckley

We try to recruit good players and good people.

Eydie Gorme

I learned my phrasing from Frank. I loved him so much.

Earl Scruggs

I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.

June Carter Cash

Every dog has his day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weak-end.

June Carter Cash

After you've listened to it, you'll feel like you know us a little bit better.

Luther Allison

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.

Luther Allison

Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.

Luther Allison

I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.

Luther Allison

But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job.

Luther Allison

So I cut out all the drinkin' and hangin' out and stuff like that early on.

Luther Allison

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

Lionel Hampton

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.

Lionel Hampton

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

The process of putting the DVD and the CD together was great fun, because it provided a good excuse for the four of us to make time to get together again. I am especially pleased with the end result of these two projects.

You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.

No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.

I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at the graves of the great you dream of a coming country, where your proudest hopes shall be dimmed forever.

The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made.

I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks.

The future is wider than vision, and has no end.

I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.

The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.