Famous Quotes & Sayings

Casey Kasem

Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.

Casey Kasem

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

Don Gibson

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

Danny Elfman

There's kind of a cool feel that happens every now and then. I guess that feel is the thing that makes the score its own score. But, I don't know exactly what that is. So, it's hard for me to answer that question.

Danny Elfman

So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow.

Danny Elfman

I'm looking for a feel and I have to find what that feel is before I can move on from there. I'm not necessarily catching stuff in such a simple way - I don't need to. So, I'm going for something else.

Danny Elfman

I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer.

Danny Elfman

I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.

Danny Elfman

I'll look back and I'd be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the movie comes out and I see it. I don't even know what it is yet. I've still been in the middle of it.

Danny Elfman

Sometimes I like them artificial and sometimes I like them real. And the reason is because sometimes I like a real close sound. And I like a very specific snare sound and I can't get that in the big room.

Danny Elfman

I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.

Danny Elfman

I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I'm really just going a couple bars at a time.

Bob Seger

I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

Beverly Sills

There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

Bing Crosby

There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.

Billie Holiday

If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.

Billie Holiday

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

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.

Lloyd Banks

We got extremely lucky. It's a tough business to work with.

Louis Armstrong

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

Louis Armstrong

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.

Kevin Eubanks

It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children.

Kevin Eubanks

The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.

Kinky Friedman

I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

Kinky Friedman

I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

Kim Gordon

But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it.

Kenny Rogers

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

'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.

Skitch Henderson

We have train wrecks, as we say, all the time. I've had a project in Switzerland where the artist just changed at the last minute.

Ruth Brown

If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.

Ruth Brown

There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.

Ruth Brown

I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.

Ruth Brown

Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.