Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Harris

The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in.

David Sanborn

Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?

Donna Summer

I'm ready to work and if it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it's fine.

Cass Elliot

I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?

Carl Perkins

If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.

Dizzy Gillespie

They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.

Dizzy Gillespie

I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

John Fahey

While I recognize in the back of my mind that I am an occasionally brilliant guitar composer and arranger, innovator and player.

Emmylou Harris

With the Constitution they set something in motion that is a pretty extraordinary document and a recipe for the way you would want people to live.

Herb Alpert

With tape, you capture the impact, but you bring in some other elements. Sometimes those elements are good and sometimes, they're not.

Joanna Newsom

Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own.

Joshua Homme

Well, when you're just living your life and not watching anyone else's, you write about your thing and hopefully it's something people can latch onto.

Jan Berry

When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far away it seems.

Aaron Neville

When I went to the movies and heard cowboys like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry yodeling when I came out of the movie I was that guy.

Jeff Tweedy

We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.

Jimmy Carl Black

There are many old fans that come to see me play and a lot of his younger fans that have gotten into the old recordings of the M.O.I.

David Allan Coe

Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is.

David Lee Roth

It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!

David Lee Roth

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.

People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

Dick Dale

I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.

Donnie Iris

I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.

Donnie Iris

I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.

Donnie Iris

I've always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it's the type of thing I could get used to.

David Johansen

We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant.

Charlie Haden

Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.

Charlie Haden

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy.

Charlie Haden

I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.

Charlie Haden

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

Charlie Haden

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.