Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billie Joe Armstrong

I wrote a song called 'Green Day' because I was smoking a lot of dope.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time.

Billie Joe Armstrong

With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm an actor. I'm not a performer. I'm not like a song and dance guy who can take a cane and a hat and do it. I would just you know. That's why I never did commercials.

Billy Bob Thornton

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

Billy Bob Thornton

Sometimes I have songs born out of stories.

Billy Bob Thornton

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

Bill Hader

I'm not a fan of the Eagles, but I've watched their documentary numerous times and everyone who's watched it with me has sung along to the songs, much to my dismay.

Bill Hader

The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.

Eckhart Tolle

Silence is Golden; it has divine power and immense energy. Try to pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be. It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, and every word. The unmanifested is present in this world as silence. All you have to do is pay attention to it.

Edward R. Murrow

All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.

Bruce Beresford

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

Bruce Beresford

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

Bruce Cockburn

I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldn't likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs.

Bruce Cockburn

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.

Bruce Cockburn

I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.

Bristol Palin

I love my son more than anything. I will do whatever it takes to make sure he is raised the right way.

Britt Robertson

The song Cant Look Back Now by the Weepies reminds me of the entire Life Unexpected experience.

Britt Ekland

I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.

Britney Spears

I definitely like to go out and dance. I'm a big vibe person when it comes to music so a song really has to make me feel a certain way in order for me to fall in love with it.

Britney Spears

I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess it's a good process because I love all of my music.

Britney Spears

I have always been heavily involved in every album I have ever made. I'm very stubborn when it comes to recording and will only record songs I love, which is why it takes me a long time to make an album.

Britney Spears

On her Slave For You video: It's a very sensual video so I thought it was a good reflection of the song. My Mum thought it was... different.

Britney Spears

Takin' out my freak tonight

Britney Spears

Lady Gaga will dominate the charts next year. She let me listen to a couple of new songs, she is a legend.

Britney Spears

All of my songs are f–ing amazing.

Britney Spears

Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write.

Brian Lara

If I have a son and he decides to play cricket, I will want him to bat like Sachin Tendulkar.

Brian Lara

I want my son to become Sachin Tendulkar.

Brian McKnight

I hope at some point in my career when my name is mentioned, someone will say "Oh yeah he has a good song!" I'd be happy with that.

Brian McKnight

You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.

Brian McKnight

I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.

Brian McKnight

Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.