Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elaine Dundy

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

Jimmy Page

The beauty of the band was you never knew what was going to come out next.

Suze Orman

Success is not how many zeroes your bank account has. It's about making the most of the life you have.

Scott Westerfeld

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

Rashida Jones

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

Rashida Jones

Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.

Tracy Morgan

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

Robert Reich

Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else.

Rob Sheffield

I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

Robert Fripp

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

Robert Fulghum

Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.

Rick Nielsen

If I weren't in the band, I would be a fan.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Great, the worlds coming to an end and we're fixing it with Band-Aids

Stone Gossard

I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.

Sam Altman

As you grow, it feels hopelessly corporate but it really is worth putting in place these compensation bands.

Roddy Woomble

I suppose if a band is like a gang, it is a moment in time.

Tommy Shaw

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.

Tommy Shaw

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band

Steve Albini

It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me.

Taryn Manning

I like to contribute. Even in my bands, I can't really just be the singer.

Stan Getz

I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

Stanley Clarke

It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.

Scotty Moore

We were the only band in history that was directed by an ass.

Keith Jarrett

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

Rachel Stevens

Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.

Tennessee Williams

Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.

Thomas Pynchon

Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.

Vince Cable

There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.

Ron Carter

A good bassist determines the direction of any band.

Travis Barker

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.

Regina Spektor

I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved.

Rick Wakeman

Coming back to Yes is like never having left. Even when I have not been in the band, I have always felt part of it.

Trevor Dunn

Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.