Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joanna Newsom

It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.

Mike Gordon

It's not often that we learn cover songs.

Kristin Hersh

It's not like touring with a rock band. I don't have any friends or equipment of volume on stage, just me. Just me and the chair.

James Iha

It's not like that often, I mean, I suppose out of a ratio of 10 fans maybe like 1 or 2 of 'em might be Asian, and maybe every second or third time they might bring up something that they're Asian and I'm Asian.

Grandmaster Flash

For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times.

Adrian Belew

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.

Bobby Sherman

For a good five years I didn't know where home was, I barely had very much time to think about anything but doing what I was doing.

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Mickey Gilley

It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now.

Jermaine Dupri

It's one of the hardest feats in the music industry, maintaining and continuing to keep doing at the same pace for a lengthy amount of years.

Stephanie Mills

It's the best thing ever-I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.

Kerry King

They even didn't know if I would have liked it, so I took it home and made a song up on it and thought I guess I'd better order one.

Joan Baez

You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

Julio Iglesias

You don't find me too bald, do you? Old, and bald, and with a belly?

Jo Stafford

There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming.

Roy Acuff

There were people coming in here from New York, California, Chicago, all different places that had publishing companies, trying to buy my songs.

Deana Carter

There's a lot of freedom for me living in L.A.

Richard Stallman

There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.

E. O. Wilson

There's a lot happening in many of us. I think you have to celebrate every part. It's what you are. You have to try to find all of those secret names.

Debbie Gibson

This is the time it all starts, I'm telling you. Like, 16, I mean, forget it. You could just get beat up, you could go through these grueling schedules.

Deana Carter

I toured in Europe first, before I did ANY touring in the US. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

Taylor Dayne

I touched a lot of people internationally, and Rodney's a very smart business man, he knows you have to go for a broader and bigger audience.

Jakob Dylan

It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

Merrill Markoe

I, too, have never seen an episode of Moesha, and even more amazing, I have never even read a TV Guide description of an episode.

Kurtis Blow

I told them to wait... they did it without me, but they used my band Orange Krush. I was kinda mad so I said thats what I will do, start producing.

Cass Elliot

They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

Stone Gossard

There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits.

Kenny Hickey

There's always been an overwhelming feeling that everything is going to fall apart in this band any minute and that was from day one, for 10 years.

Mose Allison

There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.

Louis Armstrong

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Jon Crosby

At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it's not really my bag. I've been listening to the radio since we've been touring the past month, because we don't get it most of the time.

I try to give positive energy in all my shows.

Kerry King

It was only supposed to be on WCW compilation; on that wrestling compilation. And for that I thought it was good. And then we threw it on our record as well.