Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Joplin

It is never right to play ragtime fast.

Tom Glazer

Later in the public schools of Philadelphia, where I was born, music was a very strong pervasive element, which struck me with great force.

Mike Gordon

Lately Fish and I have been hooking up more, which is a good thing because it's just been a struggle for me as a bass player to play with someone who's so creative on the drums, and lately it's been really good, especially during sound checks.

Bo Bice

I was worried I was gonna trip and fall and hurt myself, so I changed to tennis shoes and they got a lot better grip, too good of a grip.

I went out to visit Dorsey Burnette, after I graduated high school.

Steve Cropper

I went from the really crude way we had of recording in Memphis to working with the top engineers and technologies in Los Angeles.

Luther Allison

I went from a champion... it became very hard in the beginning, because I gave up everything in the States, to take this chance.

John Fogerty

I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.

Steven Adler

I will be back, at least with Appetite.

Jimmy Carl Black

I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own.

Mary Ritter Beard

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

Mary Ritter Beard

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Jonathan Richman

Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect!

Robby Krieger

We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.

Connie Francis

He was right about country music. He used to listen to this disc jockey, Jerry Brenner in New York, who would play country music once a week.

Matt Cameron

I ain't 27 anymore, and boy, does my body let me know it occasionally, but it is something I have been able to manage over time.

Bill Dixon

I have hundreds of hours of this music on tape performed by orchestras at the college that, as I said, have never seen the light of any other day.

Charlie Daniels

I didn't really fit well with what was going on in Nashville at the time. I was too loud, I was too bluesy, I was too "a lot of things.

Joe Williams

I don't have any skeletons in my closet.

Jeff Ament

I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.

Bob Crosby

I didn't want to be compared with Bing.

Jon Crosby

I didn't want the record to be cold and I don't think it's cold at all. I felt it was very people oriented.

Ray Conniff

I didn't get paid. I didn't even care that I didn't get paid.

Max Roach

I'd like to build what I call an oasis.

Jonathan Richman

I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em I don't do 'em even for myself.

Peabo Bryson

I'd like to think my music - especially Unconditional Love, is a representation of the philosophies and ideologies I want to share with you.

Gary Cherone

I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.

Ronnie Hawkins

I don't know who's left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, we've got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it 'till nobody shows up to see it anymore.

John Fogerty

I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs.

Dizzy Gillespie

I don't care too much about music. What I like is sounds.

Gary Cherone

I could see the tension between Sam and Dave. Sammy had a career before Hagar and people hated him out of their loyalty to Dave.

Wanda Jackson

I'd been working with Elvis, but I just recorded Country, so he, definitely, like you said, encouraged me to try it, but I didn't, right then.

Joanna Newsom

I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.