Famous Quotes & Sayings

Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.

Don Ellis

Because when we are right there is not a band in the world that can touch us!

Peabo Bryson

Because there's so many intangibles about art. It's so personal in terms of whether it is good or bad. Or you like it or you don't like it.

Elliott Smith

I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.

Sonny Rollins

I don't think jazz should try to change. I think jazz is varied enough and there is so many different kinds of jazz. So jazz doesn't need to change.

Les Claypool

I don't know if it was the whole audience getting stoned out of their minds getting ready for the Floyd thing or what it was, but it was like playing to a painting.

Max Roach

I didn't even apply. There was no warning.

Ike Turner

I didn't know anything about publishing companies. I didn't know anything about writers royalties, and they kept me green, you know.

Chico Hamilton

Most people would be disappointed, myself particularly, if I were to come up with the sound of the early 'sixties, or of the 'fifties even.

Kristin Hersh

Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves.

Matt Cameron

Most of the time we've had some interesting opening bands, like Cheap Trick opened for us a few times and that was a total thrill.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.

Chico Hamilton

Mentally and physically, I find I can play with these people.

Suzy Bogguss

Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me.

Deana Carter

Me And The Radio is probably the most directed at my divorce and a turning point in my life to having to make a conscious choice to move on.

Gary Cherone

Me and Eddie really hit it off as songwriters and also as just people. It lasted three years. I don't regret one moment. They were great to me.

Jermaine Dupri

My last record, people were a little confused because I was trying to prove a production point. This time, my production credit is there.

Les Claypool

My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.

Cab Calloway

Of course, nobody knows what Porgy was, whether he was on his knees all the time or was pulled by a goat or - they don't know what he was.

Chad Hugo

Of course I'm going to feel that frustration and angry emotion going on, but at the same time, I realize that people just don't know.

Jackie DeShannon

I think the songs are what I miss most.

Michelle Shocked

I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling.

Joshua Homme

I think sometimes when I watch some of these DVDs of live concerts, it's just the whole concert and that's it! You know? I want to do extra stuff.

Madeleine Peyroux

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

Judy Collins

I wrote a song called walls with my husband, Louis Nelson, who designed the new Korean Veteran's Memorial Wall on the Mall in Washington, D.C.

Mac Davis

I write three Top 10 records, you'd think that I oughta be able to just at least call up and say, hey, I think I got a hit for you or something.

Taylor Dayne

Last thing I need is to take LSD or mushrooms.

Joanna Noelle Levesque

I think every little girl is fascinated with mermaids.

I think enthusiasm for our music will be the spark that ignites the fire under the people that hate it and think we're a bad influence on kids.

Gary Cherone

People know my name and that can get me in the doo,r but on the same hand people know my name and that can have them shut the door.

Juliana Hatfield

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

Lee Konitz

People look for a messiah all the time. And everybody is just busy doing their own thing, trying to learn how to play the music.

Carl Wilson

Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.