Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Coyne

I was in England and I know Cat Stevens told some journalists that he loved our song and was honoured that people compared our song to his song.

Alan Price

I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.

Vince Gill

I still have to play the solos and do the things that I do on my records, I still put in the work. I think that it's more lonely, and it's hard.

Vanessa Carlton

I still have my hands and I can still write songs. I still have my body and I can still dance. I owe God so much because things are going so well.

Joshua Homme

I think our thing is that you commit to go in and try to sound as original as possible. We just do our own thing because that's the obligation!

Rick Derringer

Without anybody to give him some competition or to push him, Johnny, like anybody, might get a little bored or sink into complacency.

Maurice Gibb

We recorded this song about six years ago in Australia. It didn't do a bloody thing then, and I don't think this version will do anything today.

Charlie Hunter

Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment. It's not about trying to force any particular style within the parameters - and the parameters we play in are pretty large!

Tre Cool

We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam.

Kurtis Blow

Well I was always a hustler... I ran numbers; I wasn't a stick up kid, but I was a fence for them. I used to sell weed; and was kicked out of Music and Art for that.

Trevor Dunn

Well, I've never been to Japan so I couldn't say. I do know that we have a bit of a following there however.

Josh Homme

Well, I think what's most important is the idea of something.

Luther Allison

We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States.

Anita Hill

Well, they've caused me to realize that as an individual I have a lot of responsibility, certainly, but that now I have even more responsibility.

Barry Mann

We happened to start writing pop songs in a time when the old music business was beginning to fade and a new kind of music was emerging.

Mike Gordon

I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too.

Jon Crosby

It doesn't really seem any different anywhere. I'd say it seems like we're biggest in Australia. It's just that we've always been this underground band and for some reason in the last month has been starting to go overground.

Mac Davis

I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.

George Duke

I think I made my mark playing instruments like the Minimoog, because I learnt how to make them talk; I learnt how to get the blues out of them.

Jimmy Carl Black

I think he might miss everything he used to do but I don't know that for a fact. His wife is probably the only one that does. A sweet lady.

Norman Granz

I still travel a great deal. I go to the States, not for too long periods, but I make frequent trips because of my management problems with Ella.

Leo Kottke

It depends on the time of the year and who I've been talking to, I try to put people in the studio I like.

Jon Crosby

It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do.

Jon Crosby

I think it would be very scary and very confusing if I didn't understand where people are coming from, but I've felt the exact same way for so many other bands, growing up. It's not really a big deal.

Fantasia Barrino

I thought if I was going to go into the competition, I was going to go in the same way I was going to go out. I was just going to be me.

Jon Crosby

I thought I wanted to give it a rest on this record, or bring it back in a different way, and I consciously decided to take a rest on the samples.

Chubby Checker

Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears all the rappers, they're doing my dances and they're making billions doing my dances. When they do that little thing they do with their hands that's The Fly and The Pony.

Laurie Anderson

You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?

Jon Fishman

Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.

Ronnie Hawkins

Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing for more than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.

Guy Forget

Well, Darrell is a stunning musician. I mean, he plays anything. The only thing I've never heard him play is a fiddle, and I bet he could.

Sam Rivers

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.

Mickey Gilley

Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day.