RobertHaigh's Quotes

I think the good thing about the Internet is to give something away and to sell something else. Get a business model like that because the old brick and mortar record stores are falling apart, and the big record companies are collapsing under their own weight.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

The wonderful thing about having your songs on the radio is that people are going to go out to your concerts and buy your merchandise and that sort of thing, and it feels good to get that level of name recognition.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

My favorite guitar now is my Martin HD-7 because it's got everything. It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's got the flexibility of the six string, and the bass notes where you can do bass runs and that sort of thing.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

I've got an electric little motorcycle that I go to the supermarket with every day, and it's powered by the solar panels, so it's really got a zero carbon footprint.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

When I first went from a band situation to a solo situation, it was quite an adjustment to make. But after having done it for a number of years, it really feels good out there.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words and developed a vocabulary with my sense of hearing. I play guitar by ear.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

I love being a troubadour. I travel around the world with my wife and play little theaters. We have a ball.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

I'd like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I've been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old Town School of Folk Music. I used to go to Pete Seeger concerts, and he would do songs like 'Ruben Ranzo' and talk about how the sailors sang songs to do their work - to raise the anchors, pull up the sails and that sort of thing.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

I'm a huge fan of home recording. I think it levels the playing field. You don't need $100,000 to record a studio CD.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

I love being on the sea and the rolling of the ship, and for me, it's not really happening until we get a little wave action going, I love that feeling.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

I open all my concerts with 'My Back Pages,' written by Bob Dylan, and close them all with 'May the Road Rise to Meet You,' written by Roger McGuinn and Camilla McGuinn.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

To me, being in the big time is not that big of a deal. I've been there; I know what it is. It's exciting, but it's also a lot of work and pressure. I love sort of flying under the radar where we can play theaters and sell CD's on the Internet, and it's really kind of a cool time.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every day. I enjoy reading now, and there is a whole world of books out there to explore.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

When The Byrds started country-rock, we had no idea there would be such a thing. We were just trying to honor the music. We started listening to country radio. We went to Nudie's and got cowboy clothes.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

I'm happy with the Byrds as a good memory.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

I was raised a Roman Catholic and had to go to the eight o'clock Mass every morning and have communion and wear a tie, kind of like a restricted life style. Then in the '60s, we got wild and let it go and started looking in other places to see where God really was, and I came back to the Christian thing.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

I love awards, especially if I get them!

– Ben Gazzara  Famous Quote

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

– Dustin Hoffman  Famous Quote

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

– Dustin Hoffman  Famous Quote

Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.

– Dustin Hoffman  Famous Quote

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

– Dustin Hoffman  Famous Quote

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.

– Dustin Hoffman  Famous Quote

I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.

– Dustin Hoffman  Famous Quote

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

– Dustin Hoffman  Famous Quote

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.

– Dustin Hoffman  Famous Quote

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

– Dustin Hoffman  Famous Quote

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

– Dustin Hoffman  Famous Quote

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

– Dustin Hoffman  Famous Quote

I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

I went on tours with [Bob] Dylan - the big one was in 1975 and called Rolling Thunder Review. I knew him well because I met him around the time he did his second album, in 1963. He recorded one of my songs called Shadows. In the 1970s, it was suggested that we do a duet, because we had the same manager, Albert Grossman, who also managed Odetta and Peter, Paul and Mary. Dylan and I respected what each other did, but I just decided not to do it.

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

I took the song 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

I would never have ever dreamed that I would get married again and then all of a sudden you meet somebody. That's the thing about life. It can be so unexpected

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.

– Johnny Cash  Famous Quote

You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

– Johnny Cash  Famous Quote

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

– Johnny Cash  Famous Quote

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

– Johnny Cash  Famous Quote

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

– Johnny Cash  Famous Quote

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

– Johnny Cash  Famous Quote

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

– Johnny Cash  Famous Quote

All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three years later it will come true. It keeps you on your toes.

– Townes Van Zandt  Famous Quote

Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.

– Townes Van Zandt  Famous Quote

There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah.

– Townes Van Zandt  Famous Quote

I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.

– Townes Van Zandt  Famous Quote

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

– Townes Van Zandt  Famous Quote

I was just tapped on the shoulder from above and told to write these songs, as opposed to wanting to be a success in the music business.

– Townes Van Zandt  Famous Quote

What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.

– Townes Van Zandt  Famous Quote

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

– Townes Van Zandt  Famous Quote

I'm the mold that grunge was grown in.

– Townes Van Zandt  Famous Quote

I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.

– Townes Van Zandt  Famous Quote

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

– Townes Van Zandt  Famous Quote

And you treated my woman to a flake of your life/ And when she came back she was nobody's wife.

– Leonard Cohen  Famous Quote

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

I wrote one called 'The No Hotel.' I got inspired in 1989 while I was on a trip down to Brazil, and I didn't finish it until eight years later.

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

If I put 3,000 miles a year on my car, that's a lot. If I buy them, it just doesn't make sense, so I lease them, and my company writes the whole car expense off.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

As a kid, I had my head under the hood of a car, either an old Ford or a Chevrolet, just learning about it so if anything happened, I could repair it.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.

– Bill Withers  Famous Quote

I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.

– Bill Withers  Famous Quote

I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.

– Shania Twain  Famous Quote

I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking.

– Shania Twain  Famous Quote

I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.

– Shania Twain  Famous Quote

I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.

– Shania Twain  Famous Quote

Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.

– Shania Twain  Famous Quote

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

– Shania Twain  Famous Quote

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

– Shania Twain  Famous Quote

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

– Shania Twain  Famous Quote

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

– Shania Twain  Famous Quote

Wherever I am, it's a really good feeling to have that connection to people. I love to go out to talk to people and be with folks. I don't shy away from it.

– Danny DeVito  Famous Quote

You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.

– Danny DeVito  Famous Quote

If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the most important things in your life, and once you're doing that, there's no way that you could not learn from them, because they just give you stuff constantly.

– Danny DeVito  Famous Quote

I don't think I've been bored, ever. I've always been working on two or three things at a time; whether it was in the early days, or whatever, I was always working on something.

– Danny DeVito  Famous Quote

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

– Danny DeVito  Famous Quote

I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be.

– Danny DeVito  Famous Quote

Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

– Danny DeVito  Famous Quote

I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich.

– Danny DeVito  Famous Quote

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.

– Lenny Bruce  Famous Quote

I'm not a comedian. And I'm not sick. The world is sick, and I'm the doctor. I'm a surgeon with a scalpel for false values.

– Lenny Bruce  Famous Quote

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

– James Brown  Famous Quote

I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back.

– James Brown  Famous Quote

I want to say to you, Help yourself, so you can help someone else.

– James Brown  Famous Quote

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

– James Brown  Famous Quote

I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.

– Emmylou Harris  Famous Quote

If you're an unattractive girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, forget it. If you are a beautiful girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, you will look like you're angry all the time.

– Stevie Nicks  Famous Quote

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.

– Stevie Nicks  Famous Quote

I had Botox and I hated it. For four long months, I looked like a different person.

– Stevie Nicks  Famous Quote

I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers.

– Stevie Nicks  Famous Quote

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

– Stevie Nicks  Famous Quote

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

– Stevie Nicks  Famous Quote

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

– Harold Wilson  Famous Quote

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

– Harold Wilson  Famous Quote

Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a book to play some chords, so I was laying down 'Hound Dog' and things like that when I was 10 years old in 1955. That's the way I was. My ear was glued to the radio. I knew right then what I wanted to do.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

I don't have and have never had an email address. I'm old school. But as far as downloads go, my only objection is I like the sound of CDs better, so I buy those. I think the sound quality is better.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

I've covered so much Tom Waits. He's one of my favorite writers. I have a real affinity to how he writes.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know why that started... The way I sing, probably.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

I did this thing with Trisha Yearwood, a song called 'The Price.' I had been sitting on it for a while, because I figured, you know, this really needs a good singer.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live in a house because my brother went in the service during Vietnam and I was sole support of my mother. And she had no skills, really, except to clean other people's houses. So I had to have a bunch of jobs, you know, as well as music.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, 'Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

We've been really lucky. We've gotten a lot of airplay over the years. I guess people keep requesting our songs on the radio, because Lord knows I don't do a whole lot to promote myself.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

I love working with different musicians in the studio, that's a real joy working with someone for the first time.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

We've got to practice three weeks, get the kinks out, then we've got to practice three weeks with the crew, and then go out for four months. It's just a huge chunk of time out of life.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

– Bob Seger  Famous Quote

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

– Jim Carrey  Famous Quote

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

– Jim Carrey  Famous Quote

Whatever your hands find to do, you must do with all your heart.

– John Hiatt  Famous Quote

It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.

– John Hiatt  Famous Quote

My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?

– John Hiatt  Famous Quote

We have always understood that visibility is viability.

– Mary Wilson  Famous Quote

Kudos to Lindsey, for sure, for us not doing a replica of 'Rumours.

– Mick Fleetwood  Famous Quote

All of us... anyone that's been in Fleetwood Mac, as far as I've been aware, has been seemingly pretty well brought up by their parents: not goody two-shoes - God knows we weren't - but there was a level of civility that the lads in the band were aware of, what is over the brink of decency.

– Mick Fleetwood  Famous Quote

Obviously, this is a huge change with the advent of Lindsey Buckingham not being a part of Fleetwood Mac. We all wish him well and all the rest of it.

– Mick Fleetwood  Famous Quote

I have a lot of respect for these rock photographers. You realize that some of them were really led into the inner circles of some of these artists and bands. And you see how those photographs really capture the artist, the moment.

– Mick Fleetwood  Famous Quote

I have a reverence for great photography, but I don't consider myself in that league.

– Mick Fleetwood  Famous Quote

My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

– Mick Fleetwood  Famous Quote

John Lee Hooker became a friend of mine and I love all of his work. He was truly an icon. He lived the life. I miss him.

– Mick Fleetwood  Famous Quote

I love wearing a lot of color, and I am majorly into scarves. I'm the Beau Brummell of Fleetwood Mac, no doubt.

– Mick Fleetwood  Famous Quote

I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don't drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you're walking around in.

– Mick Fleetwood  Famous Quote

No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.

– Mick Fleetwood  Famous Quote

Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.

– Mick Fleetwood  Famous Quote

The value of friends has always been a natural thing. I prefer too many to too few.

– Mick Fleetwood  Famous Quote

Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.

– Mick Fleetwood  Famous Quote

I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

– Chrissie Hynde  Famous Quote

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

– Chrissie Hynde  Famous Quote

I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

– Chrissie Hynde  Famous Quote

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

– David Bowie  Famous Quote

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

– David Bowie  Famous Quote

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

– David Bowie  Famous Quote

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

– David Bowie  Famous Quote

I grew up listening to country music. I got into traditional stuff later, but I listened to the commercial stuff of the '90s, especially the women who were so strong, like Mary Chapin Carpenter and Kathy Mattea. It's a great art form.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

I think it's important that everybody has access to music, and not just people who live in cities or who can afford to drive to the nearest city.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

It's really funny how I've come round to classical music around the back door with my banjo in my hand, and I love it.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

Separation in culture and arts does nobody any favors except for the people in power. That's just it... So I feel like I'm in the business of challenging that narrative.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

For me the bare feet are grounding. I'm connected to the Earth in a way that I cannot be any other way.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

My dad's white, my mom's black, and I've struggled with being mixed race.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

I would be thrilled with anybody who cites my work as something that inspired them.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

I'm still black in the eyes of America.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and heard, but that can also add to the conversation about what's going on now.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

I'm not gonna force something or fake something to try to get more black people at my shows. I'm not gonna do some big hip-hop crossover.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

Each song has its own way that it likes to be done, but it can be more than one way. If you tap into it, you can feel it.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

I'm a North Carolina native. Grew up in North Carolina.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

At some point you have to take responsibility for who you are and where you are and being able to listen to other points of view, whichever side of the tracks you're on.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

I decided to study music my last year in high school.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

So my mom's folks are from one side of Greensboro - and, you know, outside of Greensboro. And my dad's folks, the white side, is from another very small town outside of Greensboro. So both sides are coming from the country.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would have been around. And, you know, first hundred years of its existence, the banjo's known as a plantation instrument, as a black instrument.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my god. And then I went to Africa, to the Gambia, and studied the akonting, which is an ancestor of the banjo, and just that connection to me was just immense.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American music - and then, through that, American history.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

I love the U.K. folk scene. In the States, nobody knows what to do with me. There's still a very narrow definition of Americana.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

People say, I'm tired of thinking about race, it's a drag. Yeah, well, welcome to my life! I don't care who you are. We have the time and the headspace for this stuff. The least you can do is take a moment.

– Rhiannon Giddens  Famous Quote

I started singing as a hobby, but the minute I started, I knew that I loved it.

– Mary Wilson  Famous Quote

We did have some difficult times. Really, there were more good times than bad. I've been honest about a lot of the things that happened and the truth is, I have more good memories than bad ones.

– Mary Wilson  Famous Quote

A child is born to a welfare case/ Where the rats run around like they own the place/ The room is chilly, the building is old/ That's how it goes/ A doctor's found on his welfare rounds/ And he comes and he leaves on the double

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

The radio makes hideous sounds.

– Bob Dylan  Famous Quote

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

– Bob Dylan  Famous Quote

In 'The Mark' I played a psychiatrist. And in the '50's everybody went to a psychiatrist because if you didn't, you'd have nothing to talk about at cocktail parties.

– Rod Steiger  Famous Quote

We come. We go. And in between we try to understand.

– Rod Steiger  Famous Quote

In the 1800s, one of the MPs in London decided to introduce tax. In those days it was 2p in the pound. I thought it still was.

– Ken Dodd  Famous Quote

The man who invented cats’ eyes got the idea when he saw the eyes of a cat in his headlights. If the cat had been going the other way, he would have invented the pencil sharpener.

– Ken Dodd  Famous Quote

The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.

– Ken Dodd  Famous Quote

I used to think I was marvellous in bed until I discovered that all my girl friends suffered from asthma.

– Ken Dodd  Famous Quote

It’s a privilege to be asked to play here tonight on what is a very special anniversary. It is 100 years to the night since that balcony collapsed. (Addressing people in The Gods at a provincial theatre.)

– Ken Dodd  Famous Quote

I’ve seen a topless lady ventriloquist. Nobody has ever seen her lips move.

– Ken Dodd  Famous Quote

I wanted to take the dog to obedience class but it wouldn't go.

– Ken Dodd  Famous Quote

I did 25 minutes running on the spot this morning - I had my braces caught in the banister

– Ken Dodd  Famous Quote

I do all the exercises every morning in front of the television - up, down, up, down, up, down. Then the other eyelid.

– Ken Dodd  Famous Quote

Do I believe in safe sex? Of course I do. I have a handrail around the bed.

– Ken Dodd  Famous Quote

(On his marathon live shows) You think you can get away, but you can't. I'll follow you home and I'll shout jokes through your letterbox.

– Ken Dodd  Famous Quote

My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night, saying: 'Well, that taught me a lesson.

– Ken Dodd  Famous Quote

Comedy should never be over-analysed. It's either funny or it isn't. There's a subtle difference between those who say funny things and those who say things funny.

– Ken Dodd  Famous Quote

So it turns out that if you bang two halves of a horse together, it doesn’t make the sound of a coconut.

– Ken Dodd  Famous Quote

How many men does it take to change a toilet roll? Nobody knows – it’s never been done before.

– Ken Dodd  Famous Quote

I always feel at home in theatres like this ... because we're about the same age

– Ken Dodd  Famous Quote

How do you make a blonde laugh on a Sunday? Tell her a joke on a Wednesday.

– Ken Dodd  Famous Quote

I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her.

– Ken Dodd  Famous Quote

Laughter is the greatest music in the world and audiences come to my shows to escape the cares of life. They don't want to be embarrassed or insulted. They want to laugh and so do I - which is probably why it works.

– Ken Dodd  Famous Quote

I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.

– Guy Clark  Famous Quote

All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

– Guy Clark  Famous Quote

Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.

– Guy Clark  Famous Quote

I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.

– Guy Clark  Famous Quote

I've gone a year and not written a song just because I couldn't think of anything. But I always come back to it because there's always that little buzz you get when you do something well and sing it out loud to the public. And people clap and tell you how great you are.

– Guy Clark  Famous Quote

Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they need from it. And that's part of the reason I write like I do, so I can leave the holes in the right places so people can say, 'Yeah, that happened to me,' and they're able to have their own little fantasy about it.

– Guy Clark  Famous Quote

Ain't no chance if you don't take it.

– Guy Clark  Famous Quote

If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

– Guy Clark  Famous Quote

Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody else's. That's why I write. I'm not trying to change anybody else's life or the world, I'm trying to keep from blowing my own brains out. That's the real point.

– Guy Clark  Famous Quote

I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

When I made the first album, I was 24, and at that age, you have nothing to say. I just played the music I loved and tried to do it justice.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

If you're white working with non-white people, you will be branded as a colonialist by some people, regardless of your efforts or intentions.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

Nat King Cole - I listen to him a lot.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

Musicians understand each other through means other than speaking.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

To me, the essence of the music is the most important thing.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

I just feel that music is a great life because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

I'm a great lover of ballads.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

I keep my mind on track, and I don't get mad, and I don't get frustrated. Well, I do... but creative work, it's a way of controlling all that.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

I give up on pop music. As far as a commercial entity, as far as pop music goes, I quit; I absolutely throw in the towel. I can't handle it. I can't do it. I can't be what they need you to be.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

People respond to any good you can do in music.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

All I know is, I play the guitar, beat it out, and sing a song that has some damn resonance that we feel as musicians. We send it out and people get it, and that's a good thing.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

Having my son on drums has made a huge difference. I can't stress this strongly enough, in terms of the groove space and style that Joachim gave me to instinctively play what I felt in a more free way, rather than feeling constricted. That's true on record and on stage.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

The thing I always found about the gospel music was that it reached further into your being if you like, your mind. It takes hold of you - especially if you sing it and play it.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

I think all the music I do, which ties together, as far as I'm concerned, is fun and entertaining.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

I can't help what people write or think. If somebody thinks I'm a serious archivist, they're wrong. That's been a problem. It's a shame people take that attitude, because it affects how they listen to the music. It's a big mistake to treat any pop music that way.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

R&B and all that stuff was always very spare and spontaneous. Nobody made those records under solid gold situations. It was just in and out, and you didn't labor over the thing. I like music like that.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

People who aren't as interested in recorded music as they used to be will say, 'Oh, 'Buena Vista?' Loved it.' And I'll say, 'Well, how about any of my other recent records. I've been doing some pretty good ones. You like those?' And they go, 'Huh?

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

After all is said and done and institutions fail, people still have some ability to care for each other.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

Travelling is hard. I'm no traveller. I hate flying, and I hate hotels.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

A microphone has a certain range. It's not as good as your ears, but it will capture an enclosed space, the harmonic content in a room. Nice old tube mikes do that pretty well. And that's a good sound.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

Music is all starting to sound alike in the modern era. Afro-pop sounds exactly like L.A. pop - there's no difference, no ambience, no real resonance.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

With country, it's hard to penetrate the thick layers of commercialism that have been applied like shellac coatings over the real thing.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

I'm a man of peace.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

American global economic imperialism is a fact. It's a known fact. It's a simple fact.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

I've done a fair amount of commercials. I did a bunch of Champion spark plug ads and Levi's and Molson Beer. You wouldn't know it. But some of it's damn good.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

Film work is a job I like to do because I really love to solve problems.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

I think I'm more relaxed; I think I'm more philosophical. I don't get worried as much as I used to about things.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

I like the idea that something happens to everybody who comes to L.A. - whether they are Mexican, Irish, black, or hillbillies. You come here, and you leave all your traditions behind. And since there's no traditions here, you just make one up.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

I've listened to blues my whole life. I know it, I play it, I understand it.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing film music is the perfect opportunity to do that, because you can look at the film and then just let your imagination soar.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

I toured around for years, but the road was always a drag for me. I never made a dime. In fact, I lost a lot of money - it was horrible.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

It all started back in '69 when I worked with Jack Nitzsche on 'Performance.' That was my first experience of doing soundtracks, and I've enjoyed doing them ever since.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

If something grooves and you like the sound, then that's all you need.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

When the real world intrudes on your musical fantasies, I get put out.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

I didn't come from a very rigid background, where there's a clan or a tribe or a religion.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

People have all sorts of expectations which you can't meet. Me, I'm so reclusive I stay away from such things as much as I can. I never go anywhere.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

I've been wanting an ice cream truck forever.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future.

– Ry Cooder  Famous Quote

Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own...

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being used… I like to drag them out of the box and wave them around… this is an interesting one, it’s amazing how in addition to punctuation just a little pause in the wrong place can just completely transform the meaning of something.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it? It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

– Richard Pryor  Famous Quote

In the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand/ With an aching in my heart and my pockets full of sand/ I'm a long way from home and I miss my loved one so/ In the early morning rain with no place to go

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.

– Lana Wood  Famous Quote

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

– Charles Bukowski  Famous Quote

How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

– Spike Milligan  Famous Quote

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

– Spike Milligan  Famous Quote

I'm afraid I am a born romantic. I never had any doubt that I could fulfill any man's dream if I chose to. My mother had given me the key: tender, loving care.

– Jane Russell  Famous Quote

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

– Johnny Depp  Famous Quote

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

– Johnny Depp  Famous Quote

I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.

– Ray Davies  Famous Quote

All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.

– Ray Davies  Famous Quote

Surviving, that's my plan.

– Ray Davies  Famous Quote

I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful place to be for people. So, the next time you're sitting in a park somewhere, and you see someone like me looking at you, don't phone the police. I'm just writing.

– Ray Davies  Famous Quote

I'm walking down a street called hope I'm going to get some satisfaction in my soul I'm leaving that street called fear Throw that negativity right outta here

– Ray Davies  Famous Quote

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.

– Cher  Famous Quote

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.

– Cher  Famous Quote

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

– Cher  Famous Quote

I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.

– Roger McGough  Famous Quote

Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together.

– Roger McGough  Famous Quote

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

– Roger McGough  Famous Quote

Listen. I got three expressions: looking left, looking right and looking straight ahead.

– Robert Mitchum  Famous Quote

I never take any notice of reviews-unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes and anteater nose and the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now.

– Robert Mitchum  Famous Quote

I have two acting styles: with and without a horse.

– Robert Mitchum  Famous Quote

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

– Robert Mitchum  Famous Quote

This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is OK, you do it. Then you remember your lines. You show up on time. You do what the director tells you to do. When you finish, you rest and then go on to the next part. That's it.

– Robert Mitchum  Famous Quote

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

– Marilyn Monroe  Famous Quote

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

– Marilyn Monroe  Famous Quote

You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.

– John Fogerty  Famous Quote

I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.

– John Fogerty  Famous Quote

I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

– John Fogerty  Famous Quote

I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.

– John Fogerty  Famous Quote

I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.

– John Fogerty  Famous Quote

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.

– John Fogerty  Famous Quote

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

– John Fogerty  Famous Quote

And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.

– John Fogerty  Famous Quote

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

– Richard Burton  Famous Quote

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

– Tom Petty  Famous Quote

I started playing guitar back in '56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing for it and got one. Started learning lead breaks from songs, because that was the easiest thing to do at the time. I had the guitar for two years before I learned any chords. Really.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

I think Wilco is going to definitely stand the test of time - no question - and Uncle Tupelo, and the whole No Depression scene, which is now alt-country. I think that's going to be around a long time.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form, is the foundation of the Byrds. We were all from a folk background. We considered ourselves folk singers even when we strapped on electric instruments and dabbled in different things.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.

– Roger McGuinn  Famous Quote

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

– Joan Baez  Famous Quote

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

– Joan Baez  Famous Quote

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

– Joan Baez  Famous Quote

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

– Joan Baez  Famous Quote

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

– Joan Baez  Famous Quote

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

– Joan Baez  Famous Quote

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

– Joan Baez  Famous Quote

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

– Joan Baez  Famous Quote

My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and enter college in the United States. That's how much he wanted to come to this country.

– Raquel Welch  Famous Quote

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

– Raquel Welch  Famous Quote

I was lucky that one of my first movies, 'One Million Years B.C.' was made in Europe by a British company. The Brits, and a lot of the rest of Europe, seemed to really love exotic women. The fact that I was American and exotic just made me more appealing to them.

– Raquel Welch  Famous Quote

When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

– Raquel Welch  Famous Quote

My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone.

– Raquel Welch  Famous Quote

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

– Raquel Welch  Famous Quote

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.

– Raquel Welch  Famous Quote

You can't fake listening. It shows.

– Raquel Welch  Famous Quote

I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?

– Raquel Welch  Famous Quote

I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.

– Emmylou Harris  Famous Quote

In 1974 I was trying to get my first little band together. That year marked kind of a traumatic point in my life, but I had a lot of support from friends and family and a lot of good things ended up coming out of it.

– Emmylou Harris  Famous Quote

As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me.

– Emmylou Harris  Famous Quote

I'm even able to have kind of a little bit of a second career in dog rescue. Doesn't pay anything, but it's become a real passion for me.

– Emmylou Harris  Famous Quote

I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons. I learned how to listen to George Jones records and the Louvin Brothers.

– Emmylou Harris  Famous Quote

There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

– Emmylou Harris  Famous Quote

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

– Emmylou Harris  Famous Quote

I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part - I don't really know what they're talking about.

– Emmylou Harris  Famous Quote

The only time I ever appeared in the 'Enquirer' was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I'm not much of a wild child.

– Emmylou Harris  Famous Quote

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

– Emmylou Harris  Famous Quote

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

– Emmylou Harris  Famous Quote

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

– Paul Newman  Famous Quote

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

– Paul Newman  Famous Quote

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

– Paul Newman  Famous Quote

I think I've finally, after 72 years, gotten used to my voice, and it sounds like a friend now instead of an enemy.

– John Prine  Famous Quote

I thought I was grounded. I thought from my kinda blue-collar outlook on life that I would call myself a grounded person. I was not. I was like a balloon flying around in the air. And as soon as our first child was born, boom - my feet came right down to the ground.

– John Prine  Famous Quote

If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good.

– John Prine  Famous Quote

My sense of humor has saved me more than a couple of times in my life.

– John Prine  Famous Quote

Yeah, early '71 is when I got my record contract. I had a record come out by August of '71. Things happened really fast.

– John Prine  Famous Quote

When I was a boy, my family used to watch a lot of Laurel and Hardy.

– John Prine  Famous Quote

I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.

– John Prine  Famous Quote

When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.

– John Prine  Famous Quote

I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan.

– John Prine  Famous Quote

I sound like that old guy down the street that doesn't chase you out of his apple tree.

– John Prine  Famous Quote

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

– Stefanie Powers  Famous Quote

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

– Stefanie Powers  Famous Quote

If you are going to a destination where the food might be more exotic than usual, always err on the side of caution.

– Stefanie Powers  Famous Quote

I want to feel that every trip I make has enhanced me as a person.

– Stefanie Powers  Famous Quote

We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.

– Stefanie Powers  Famous Quote

We have to stop thinking about ourselves so much and start thinking about the environment. We have to change.

– Stefanie Powers  Famous Quote

The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It's alarming.

– Stefanie Powers  Famous Quote

They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy can turn on the stove doesn't necessarily make him a good cook.

– Stefanie Powers  Famous Quote

Why should poetry have to make sense?

– Charlie Chaplin  Famous Quote

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

– Charlie Chaplin  Famous Quote

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

– Charlie Chaplin  Famous Quote

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

– Charlie Chaplin  Famous Quote

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

– Charlie Chaplin  Famous Quote

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

– Charlie Chaplin  Famous Quote

I get called Jacqueline Bissette in America. In France, I get called Jackie Bisset. And actually, it is Jacqueline Bisset, which is not that easy to say.

– Jacqueline Bisset  Famous Quote

We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.

– Jacqueline Bisset  Famous Quote

My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things.

– Jacqueline Bisset  Famous Quote

Marriage has just never interested me.

– Jacqueline Bisset  Famous Quote

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

– Jacqueline Bisset  Famous Quote

I've always loved men.

– Jacqueline Bisset  Famous Quote

I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.

– Jacqueline Bisset  Famous Quote

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

– Jacqueline Bisset  Famous Quote

I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.

– Jacqueline Bisset  Famous Quote

I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually.

– Jacqueline Bisset  Famous Quote

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.

– Jacqueline Bisset  Famous Quote

I have never given up on men easily.

– Jacqueline Bisset  Famous Quote

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

– Jacqueline Bisset  Famous Quote

I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen.

– Jacqueline Bisset  Famous Quote

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

– Jacqueline Bisset  Famous Quote

I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.

– Jacqueline Bisset  Famous Quote

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

– Jacqueline Bisset  Famous Quote

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.

– Jacqueline Bisset  Famous Quote

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.

– Jacqueline Bisset  Famous Quote

I cannot follow you, my love, you cannot follow me. I am the distance you put between all of the moments that we will be.

– Leonard Cohen  Famous Quote

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night beside her And you know that she's half crazy But that's why you want to be there

– Leonard Cohen  Famous Quote

These days I sit on corner stones And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend Don't confront me with my failures I had not forgotten them

– Jackson Browne  Famous Quote

Blood spilled out from the hole in your heart Over the strings of your guitar The worn down places in the wood That once made you feel so good Drunken Angel

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

I heard Woodrow Wilson's guns I heard Maria crying Late last night I heard the news That Veracruz was dying

– Warren Zevon  Famous Quote

We made mad love Shadow love Random love And abandoned love Accidentally like a martyr The hurt gets worse and the heart gets harder

– Warren Zevon  Famous Quote

I graduated from high school at 165 pounds, so twice a year, I get back to that number - I never let it get to 172-73. Then I go back to doubling the cardio. This week, I'm on a complete liquid diet, a juice fast. It keeps me lean and hungry.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

When I first left the Eagles, I said, 'That's it. I'm going to play golf.' After 10 days, it was like... there has to be more to life! I can still swing a golf club, and don't forget, Les Paul played until he literally passed away.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

I try to balance work and family. As long as I'm able physically and mentally to do it, I will.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

I've known those guys for decades and done some charity fundraisers with them in L.A. The response was so great from the Boston/Doobies/Felder package.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

There was no call from anybody in the band to discuss any of the things that had been a problem or what I had done wrong.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

Being on the road has about 2 1/2 hours a day that are really great, and that's when you're onstage. The other 21 1/2 hours are very boring... It becomes like a void, and we chose to fill it with all the wrong things.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

My story, is how a kid that's born into really destitute poverty on a little dirt road in Florida winds up in one of the largest bands in history.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

I would say 'Bye Bye Love' is one of my favorite influential songs to this day, and ironically, they were so in sync with their harmonies that they sounded like one person. That approach to hearing and formulating harmonies stuck in my head, so when I joined the Eagles, my ear was trained to be able to hear a vocal that way.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

Shortly after I moved to Los Angeles, I was looking for work, and I happened to be invited to Ray's studio and sat in and played on a couple of his demos. I didn't charge him a dime for it. I was on cloud nine to be working in the same room as Ray Charles, one of my huge idols.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

Early on, one of my favorites was Ray Charles. I remember hearing 'I Can't Stop Loving You' in the early '60s and thinking, 'What an unbelievably soulful voice.' In those days, the Deep South was extremely segregated.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

There were about 400 heads of state from countries all over the world. I walked out and played 'Hotel California,' and everybody in the place gave me a standing ovation, and half of those countries don't even speak English.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

I think Don Henley is a brilliant contemporary rock writer. He would have been a fabulous poet if he weren't a musician. He was a literary major, and not only that - he's gifted with a brilliant voice. To me, Don could sing the New York City Yellow Pages and I'd buy it. I just love the sound of his voice.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

Within a twelve or fourteen month period, I went through a divorce from my wife of 29 years, which is devastating emotionally and earthshaking as far as your whole world being turned upside-down. And within that same twelve month period, I left the Eagles.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

For every album we worked on, I brought in reels of tape of somewhere between fourteen and eighteen songs - some of them completed, with lyrics and melodies, some of them basic tracks. Things came out of those products. Like, for 'Hotel California', I think I had a reel with sixteen songs on it.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

I never challenged control of the band. Basically, all I did was start asking questions. There's an old adage in Hollywood amongst managers: 'Pay your acts enough money that they don't ask questions.' And I started asking questions.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

When the band first formed, everybody had been sidemen. So they said, 'In this band there are no sidemen,' and when I joined the band, it was still the same. There were some power struggles emerging, because Henley and Frey had sung all the hits at that point.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

When you got on the private plane, you had your own private lounge where you could close the door. So there wasn't a lot of friendly conversation; we were in incubators by ourselves. That just bred a void - avoid each other, and avoid the issues.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

I especially enjoyed some of the old hairstyles, with my hair down to my shoulders and a beard. And Henley's nickname used to be 'Furry Basketball' because he had that fro. It was fun to just look at what was going on in that era and how we presented ourselves on stage.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

Being in a band with three guitar players, one thing you need to do is learn to make each guitar voice sound separate and identifiable.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

Tom Petty was one of my guitar students; I knew Duane, and Stephen and I had a band. When he left, Bernie Leadon moved to Gainesville. His father was a nuclear physicist who was sent to the University of Florida to start their nuclear research facility, so he and I became friends.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

Don't forget, Stephen Stills and I had a band in Gainesville called the Continentals when we were 15. And, of course, you had Lynyrd Skynyrd in Jacksonville.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

One of the songs we recorded for 'The Long Run' was called 'You're Really High, Aren't You?' Which never really made it onto a record, but later on, it became 'Heavy Metal.' I took that track that wasn't used, and when I was invited to write a song for that movie, I took that track and recorded that song for that movie.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

I was constantly in the studio at my home writing ideas that would later become 'Hotel California' or 'Victim of Love.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

If I had a pull on 'One of These Nights,' on the first high note on 'One of These Nights,' that was just a tiny hair flat or something, I could just feel Henley's eyes scouring into the back of my head. No mistakes were allowed, and it really kept the quality at a high level.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

That last record I did, I think I played every guitar on the entire record. I want to do something more fun and exciting.

– Don Felder  Famous Quote

Got a whiskey cured guitar and no place is too far

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

If you see me smile don't think I'm acting strange I got my just reward for all my pains

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

All the lovely ladies in their finery tonight I wish that I could know them one by one

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

It seems the songs we're singing Are all about tomorrow Tunes of promises you can't keep

– Tim Hardin  Famous Quote

You look to me like misty roses Too soft to touch But too lovely to leave alone

– Tim Hardin  Famous Quote

There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

I'm always coming up with ideas that have been inspired by memories, everyday life and this and that and the other.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.

– Lucinda Williams  Famous Quote

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

– Johnny Cash  Famous Quote

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.

– Johnny Cash  Famous Quote

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

– Claudia Cardinale  Famous Quote

I never felt scandal and confession were necessary to be an actress. I've never revealed myself or even my body in films. Mystery is very important.

– Claudia Cardinale  Famous Quote

It is with passion and dedication that I will be attentive to the needs of women and fight relentlessly for their rights

– Claudia Cardinale  Famous Quote

What do we need all that for? “If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good. I firmly believe Rebel Without a Cause is such a picture.

– James Dean  Famous Quote

You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one’s watching. Love as if it’s all you know. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

– James Dean  Famous Quote

An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.

– James Dean  Famous Quote

Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.

– James Dean  Famous Quote

I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And I started racing, and now I drive on the highways, I’m extra cautious because no one knows what they’re doing half the time. You don’t know what this guy is going to do or that one.

– James Dean  Famous Quote

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

– James Dean  Famous Quote

I’d rather have people hiss than yawn.

– James Dean  Famous Quote

I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don’t see how people stay in the same room with me. I know I wouldn’t tolerate myself.

– James Dean  Famous Quote

Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.

– James Dean  Famous Quote

Racing is the only time I feel whole.

– James Dean  Famous Quote

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated. You must say, ‘Wait. Let me see.’ And above all, you must be honest with yourself.

– James Dean  Famous Quote

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

– James Dean  Famous Quote

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.

– James Dean  Famous Quote

Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.

– Charles Bukowski  Famous Quote

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

– Charles Bukowski  Famous Quote

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

– Charles Bukowski  Famous Quote

Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.

– Charles Bukowski  Famous Quote

I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.

– Jackson Browne  Famous Quote

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

– Jackson Browne  Famous Quote

When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

– Jackson Browne  Famous Quote

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

– Jackson Browne  Famous Quote

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

– Jackson Browne  Famous Quote

So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

– Jackson Browne  Famous Quote

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

– Jackson Browne  Famous Quote

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

– Jackson Browne  Famous Quote

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

– Jackson Browne  Famous Quote

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

– Jackson Browne  Famous Quote

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

– Jackson Browne  Famous Quote

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

– Jackson Browne  Famous Quote

I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

– Jackson Browne  Famous Quote

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

– Jackson Browne  Famous Quote

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

– Jackson Browne  Famous Quote

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

– Jackson Browne  Famous Quote

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

– Rosanne Cash  Famous Quote

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

– Rosanne Cash  Famous Quote

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

– Rosanne Cash  Famous Quote

The key to change... is to let go of fear.

– Rosanne Cash  Famous Quote

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

– Don Henley  Famous Quote

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

– Don Henley  Famous Quote

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.

– Don Henley  Famous Quote

I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

– Don Henley  Famous Quote

I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.

– Don Henley  Famous Quote

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

– Don Henley  Famous Quote

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

– Don Henley  Famous Quote

Nobody had any idea that 'If You Could Read My Mind' would become a hit single.

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

If You Could Read My Mind' is a different experience every time I sing it. It's just that kind of a song.

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

Every time you wanted to do something, you'd hope it would score. You'd keep trying and trying, and all of the sudden, something would come right out of left field, like 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.' No one had any idea about that one.

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

I have just a really strong love for people when I perform. I really do.

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was out there performing, and I was working in coffee houses and lounges, and people came to see me and hear my material.

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing 'She Loves You' in August 1963.

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But it turned out that way.

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

– Alexander Alekhine  Famous Quote

One must attempt to increase whatever weakness there may be in the opponent’s position; or, if there is none, one or more must be created.

– José Raúl Capablanca  Famous Quote

In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else, for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.

– José Raúl Capablanca  Famous Quote

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

– Dolly Parton  Famous Quote

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

– Leonard Cohen  Famous Quote

I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.

– Leonard Cohen  Famous Quote

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

– Leonard Cohen  Famous Quote

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

– Leonard Cohen  Famous Quote

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

– Leonard Cohen  Famous Quote

It's always sad when you start to hate what you love. ― Chrissie Hynde, Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

– Chrissie Hynde  Famous Quote

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

No matter how long it takes, true love is always worth the wait.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

There's not much difference between what I appear to be on stage and what I am. I think people like that, that I'm not trying to pull a caper.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

– Tom Waits  Famous Quote

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

– Paul Simon  Famous Quote

Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.

– Paul Simon  Famous Quote

I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.

– John Prine  Famous Quote

Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

– Dolly Parton  Famous Quote

Faith that it’s not always in your hands or things don’t always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what.

– Martina McBride  Famous Quote

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

– Emmylou Harris  Famous Quote

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

– Emmylou Harris  Famous Quote

Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a formula. I don't want to be considered a current country artist.

– Emmylou Harris  Famous Quote

I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.

– Emmylou Harris  Famous Quote

I hate just showing up, hitting a mark, doing your work, and going home. It's very boring. But being part of the creation of the whole thing is very exciting.

– Ben Gazzara  Famous Quote

You achieve because you're lucky to work with people who are very talented.

– Ben Gazzara  Famous Quote

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

– Elizabeth Taylor  Famous Quote

Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.

– Spike Milligan  Famous Quote

We had always been a real band; Heart was never a construct.

– Ann Wilson  Famous Quote

People only look at me as a Beatle, but my friends look at me as a whole person. That's how life works, but it's not bugging me anymore.

– Ringo Starr  Famous Quote

It's better to burn out than to fade away.

– Neil Young  Famous Quote

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

– Spike Milligan  Famous Quote

I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.

– Spike Milligan  Famous Quote

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

– Steve Martin  Famous Quote

Some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

– Ben Gazzara  Famous Quote

It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.

– Ann Wilson  Famous Quote

One of the pleasures of being an actor is that it takes you places you wouldn't ordinarily go, and you don't enter as a tourist, you really enter the life of the place. You achieve because you're lucky to work with people who are very talented.

– Ben Gazzara  Famous Quote

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

– David Ionovich Bronstein  Famous Quote

I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off.

– Warren Zevon  Famous Quote

Painting is with me but another word for feeling.

– John Constable  Famous Quote

Landscape is my mistress - t'is to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to man

– John Constable  Famous Quote

I’ve found that sometimes when I get to some of the solos on numbers I’ve been doing since the early 90s, to play it with my normal ‘clean’ sound leaves something wanting. If I crank the amp a little, I get a bit more sustain and can do a little more with it. More voice-like, if you like.

– Hank Marvin  Famous Quote

Some guitarists think of the USA as the only source of quality electric guitars, and for the most part they are correct. However, there are many of us who remember the superb range of guitars designed and made by BURNS GUITARS, a British company.

– Hank Marvin  Famous Quote

I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry people that I wasn't really in love with, and who weren't right for me, because I hoped they would be.

– Lana Wood  Famous Quote

I did it because the offer of a record contract came along and it seemed like it might be more fun than being a waitress. Now, I'm not so sure.

– Chrissie Hynde  Famous Quote

Confidence is usually a bluff – if you’re lucky you might have it, but frankly nobody will know the difference.

– Chrissie Hynde  Famous Quote

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

– Leonard Cohen  Famous Quote

The nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

– Paul Newman  Famous Quote

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

– Ben Johnson  Famous Quote

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

– George Harrison  Famous Quote

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

– George Harrison  Famous Quote

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days

– Clement Atlee  Famous Quote

At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

– Ann Wilson  Famous Quote

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the 70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the 70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

– Ann Wilson  Famous Quote

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

– Jackson Browne  Famous Quote

After five days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse.

– Spike Milligan  Famous Quote

Apéritif: French for a set of dentures.

– Spike Milligan  Famous Quote

Now I'm hiding in Honduras/ I'm a desperate man/ Send lawyers, guns and money/ The shit has hit the fan — lyrics from Lawyers, Guns and Money song. Copyright © Warren Zevon 1978

– Warren Zevon  Famous Quote

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

– Warren Zevon  Famous Quote

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

– Warren Zevon  Famous Quote

There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.

– John Steinbeck, East of Eden  Famous Quote

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

– John Steinbeck, East of Eden  Famous Quote

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

– James Dean  Famous Quote

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

I started writing songs in high school, so you had to write this stuff out and register it with the Library of Congress. You had to learn how to do that stuff.

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

I did a lot of canoe tripping earlier on. I was on 10 trips, and I would get the feel of the forest and the wilderness, you know, that I always knew was in my soul to begin with.

– Gordon Lightfoot  Famous Quote

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

– James Dean  Famous Quote

These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.

– Jane Russell  Famous Quote

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

– Harold Wilson  Famous Quote

I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.

– Robert Redford  Famous Quote

I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.

– Neil Young  Famous Quote

I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't.

– Paul Simon  Famous Quote

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

– Paul Simon  Famous Quote

I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.

– Martina McBride  Famous Quote

There is not a single true chess player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as gambit games.

– David Ionovich Bronstein  Famous Quote

Chess is imagination.

– David Ionovich Bronstein  Famous Quote

Chess is infinite and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponents wildest dreams will become reality.

– David Ionovich Bronstein  Famous Quote

The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move.

– David Ionovich Bronstein  Famous Quote

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

– Alexander Alekhine  Famous Quote

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

– Alexander Alekhine  Famous Quote

A good player is always lucky.

– José Raúl Capablanca  Famous Quote

I see only one move ahead, but it is always the correct one.

– José Raúl Capablanca  Famous Quote

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

– Natalie Wood  Famous Quote

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

– Don Henley  Famous Quote

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

– Ringo Starr  Famous Quote

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

– Tom Petty  Famous Quote

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they are not on your road does not mean they have gotten lost.

– Jackson Browne  Famous Quote

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

– Spike Milligan  Famous Quote

My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

– Spike Milligan  Famous Quote

Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?

– Spike Milligan  Famous Quote