Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herb Alpert

Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.

I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

Missy Elliot

When you sit down now and really listen, it doesn't give off the same feel as it did back when Run DMC and those guys were rhymin'.

Yehudi Menuhin

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

Young Buck

With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit.

Young Buck

It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.

Iggy Pop

She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.

Gerry Beckley

We then went through the audition process and picked a guy named Richard Campbell and he is no secret to L.A. players as he was with Natalie Cole for years and Three Dog Night.

Gerry Beckley

It's one thing to be a fan and it's another thing to be a label.

Ben Harper

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

Cab Calloway

The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.

Tre Cool

We have a thin candy shell, I'm surprised you didn't know that.

Dexter Gordon

Darlin... be-bop is the music of the future.

Della Reese

It's the truth and people need to hear the truth.

Don Gibson

When I wrote those two songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom.

Lionel Richie

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

Kenny Rogers

Know when to hold 'um, know when to fold 'um and know when to walk away from cameramen.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Reba McEntire

I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.

Rick Derringer

We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the studio, it was totally easy, as we knew exactly what we wanted to do.

Rick Derringer

Brenda did some little vocal arrangements for us and she got to sing as well. So, we're happy to be able to work together and that's another reason why we look forward to doing more of these.

Rick Derringer

Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny's house, so we could rehearse every day.

Rick Derringer

I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.

Rick Derringer

The first time I heard Johnny play at the Fillmore East, I wasn't really impressed. He had come on the scene with everybody telling me how great he was, and I didn't hear it.

Richie Sambora

I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we're humans and not some kind of bird.

Richard Marx

I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.

Richard Marx

I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.

Richard Marx

As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award.

Richard Marx

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

Richard Marx

It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.

Ricky Nelson

Just believe in what you're doing, and keep doing it.

Richard Stallman

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.