Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches.

Bebe Neuwirth

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

Bebe Neuwirth

My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.

Beck

There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.

Beck

I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this and they should sound like this," it gives you a direction. I like having that kind of assignment.

Beck

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.

Beck

Back then, Pro Tools only had four or eight tracks, so we couldn't actually hear all the tracks. We could only hear eight at a time, so if a song had 25 or 30 tracks, we wouldn't be able to hear it until we went into the studio an put it all on tape. The process was a little bit backwards.

Beck

There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.

Beck

I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win.

Barry Mann

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

Cecil Taylor

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano?

Cecil Taylor

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

Cecil Taylor

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

Anton Rubinstein

The pedal is the soul of the piano.

Bill Bruford

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

Eddie Van Halen

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

Ahmad Jamal

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

Dennis Wilson

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

Dave Bautista

Just getting auditions was rough. But also just learning how to act - when I did my first role, in a film I did which was a favour to a friend, I realised I was really bad at it.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

I went out on auditions because I didn't know if I was coming back on '24,' and then my pilot got picked up, so I was in London for nine weeks.

Joan Chen

I went on auditions for a movie called Year of the Dragon. I was pretty much fresh off the boat, and I had a little baby fat on me. I was a cute - really cute 22-year-old.

Elizabeth Banks

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.

Conan Stevens

I managed to get onto 'The Hobbit,' which is a story in itself. I missed the main round of auditions but managed to get a foot in the door at the last second - just as I came down with dysentery.

Jon Lewis

I was doing what Taylor is doing before Bo and Constantine. I'm not so sure that Bo or Constantine would have been given a chance in auditions if I hadn't been successful with more rockin' tunes.

Dylan Moran

I don't walk around knocking on doors and going to auditions and things generally. All the work I did was self-created.

Kristen Connolly

A lot of auditions are not fun; they're just a necessary evil, and, if you're lucky, you have a few moments that are fun.

Kim Cattrall

I got to L.A., and they said I had to lose weight, let my hair grow and buy some dresses. I was nailing auditions with my readings, but they wouldn't hire me because I wasn't putting on the glam. It just didn't occur to me.