Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Setzer

Rockabilly is really part of our background, ... It's a cousin to the blues and country. And it's that important.

Larry Groce

We noticed that she had routing through the area, and we were just going to build a show with her, but with Buddy it is unbelievable. If you like the blues it is tough to beat... She has a lot of energy and she's got this thing that's real intense but it is also kind of happy. She may be singing about being wronged, but she is winning the battle, she is overcoming.

John Brady

I think there are a lot of wannabes...but I don't think there's another Lee Atwater, ... but no one can play blues guitar with B.B. King that I know of and also run a presidential campaign...

Jeff Marlow

The allure of the kind of blues that this town is known for is still here. If the crowd at one of these venues claps for me, that will be more satisfying than a venue in a large city.

Daniel Halangahu

I think a few of the Blues boys didn't like it and half of it got pulled out in the game so I had to take it out.

Barry Trotz

I think it was a combination of things. The Blues were deeper than we were and maybe a little tougher, and their power play was unbelievable. But in the last 18 months, the climate's changed a little bit.

David Johansen

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.

Keith Tkachuk

I don't know what's going to happen here. I'm not the general manager . . . I'm not the owner. I'm just a player that has to do his job to help his team win and whatever happens, happens. We as players can only control one thing: how we perform on the ice. We need more guys worried about that than worried about other things right now. That's probably (why the Blues are in) the situation we're in right now, because people worry about that.

Susan Tedeschi

I feel like I'm part of a big family, ... I meet blues singers all the time, and they're surprised that I'm a white girl but very supportive. And when they hear me sing, they just say, 'Girl!'

Paul Konerko

Really, you can split that thing five ways. Those guys were unbelievable.

Bret Meuli

Our record should have been flip-flopped. There was an inning in four or five games where we lost games. If we could have had five innings back, we would have made the playoffs. The playoffs are our goal.

Eric Etchison

Our offense got complacent. We got up by four or five runs and the offense just went stagnant.

Kenichi Chizuka

Our original outlook was that we are looking to win five medals. Talking with the various federations, we might get two or three more.

Stan Smith

Our (offensive) line is amazing. If the line gets off and gives the back five yards, it opens up a lot of things. I can't stress enough how well they do.

Steve Roach

People have been saying that for five or six years. You can only put these things off for so long and then the day comes when your realize you're in serious danger.

Peter Lynch

People have been looking for recessions for the last five years,

Leslie Peterson

People need the help now. Easily, I could give out five times what I give out.

Martha Stewart

People make jokes about making lemonade. I actually like lemons. These are my first lemons in five months,

Frank Borgia

He said it requires special washer. He said he'd have to take whole sink out, and he didn't have the part in his truck. I'm not real handy with that stuff, so I just took his word for it.

Thierry Henry

I always have a football handy at home, and I'll play with it. Sometimes it'll get on my wife's nerves. But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Emily Mindrebo

Be challenging yourself, be taking a lot of classes. It really does come in handy just knowing how to study.

Doris Wilson

We have everything so handy today we never stop to think of where it comes from.

Margaret Atwood

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

Richard Gephardt

Real security means keeping Medicare and Social Security strong and getting a Medicare prescription drug program. So those are some of the things that I'm going to talk about.

B. F. Skinner

Supply is not keeping up right now with demand.

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Scott Thumma

Overall, nationally, no religion is keeping up with the population growth.

Carl Sagan

There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant to be known.

D.J. Trahan

I was mad when we were losing in he first half. One of my friends was keeping me posted on the score.

Jane Wyman

I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I'll do it again now.

Eugene Parker

I think he's keeping his options open, maybe for the right situation.

Stephnie Weir

There are so many examples of people who have flourished by keeping their nose to the grindstone and doing their thing. Be persistent and don't give up.

Mike McCurdy

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Mike Blakely

Some of them are not well known around here yet, like Jed & Kelley, who moved here from Tennessee,

Santiago Lyon

Our practice is to not move material that is known to be offensive.

Lee Peterson

Our son is innocent. We know that. We've known it from day one.

Maureen McCormick

Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.

Tom Andrews

Manny was also known as 'right now.' When he wanted something done, it had to be done right now.

Cecelia Ahern

Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?

Richard Matvichuk

That's what I'm going to try to do. I'm known as a physical, stay-at-home defenseman. I'm not going out thinking I'm going to score goals.

Irish Proverb

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

Tom Izzo

If I was him, I'd never do anything in the state of Michigan again.

Dick DeVos

We need to look at getting people in Michigan money in their pockets and do something tangible to reduce the price of gasoline.

Liz Boyd

We don't need a report out of Washington to tell us that people in Michigan are hurting.

Dan Rather

The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.

Maurice Stovall

Michigan State just made more plays than we did.

Matthew Dowd

Michigan is one of the opportunities -- and there's not a lot of them when overall the numbers don't look good.

Michael Finney

Michigan is my home, but Rochester has become a place that's awfully sticky for me and my family.

George Fulton

Michigan is in a pickle. It's not the harshest winter we've ever faced, but it is the longest.

Joe Johnson

The people of Michigan will play an important role in this survey,

Sully Erna

Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.

Estelle

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Keith Richards

Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

Bela Bartok

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Bela Bartok

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

B. B. King

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

B. B. King

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

Ryan Giggs

Records are not important to me at this stage and I don't consciously think about them, but they are something I will be able to look back on proudly when I have finished.

Julie Futch

Our school has never done anything like this. We've established something to be proud of at Auburn Riverside.

Bill Shankly

Although I'm a Scot, I'd be proud to be called a Scouser.

Big Sean

I just wanted to do something that had some meaning that I can look back and be proud of, that my family can look back and be proud of.

John Torchetti

I was just proud of our whole team. This is a team win if I have ever seen one. From the goalie out, we competed.

Sammy Day

That was a tough loss. But they battled back and I was proud of them.

Catherine Young

That streak is really important to us. We are proud of it and want to keep it going as long as we can.

Stacy Dent

That's awesome. I am so proud of all of you.

Ron Hassler

I was proud of how we competed, but they were able to take us out of some of the things we like to run.

Joe Torre

That was back when just getting to the World Series was enough.

Mike Fisher

I think it's tough (to take a 2-0 lead). The series is still tied and we know we can be much better.

Max Mosley

It is not too different from the Nissan World Series or the GP2 championship.

Max Mosley

It is not too different from the Nissan World Series and GP2 championship.

George Karl

I think he'll be able to play sometime in this series if we need him.

Thomas Perry

It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job.

Phil Garner

Getting this World Series start is probably going to go a long way in getting him over the Tennessee loss.

Dylan Minnette

I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'Goosebumps' books.

Ryan Miller

I don't want that to be the way this series is remembered.

Ryan Hansen

Our nemesis all year has been our rebounding.

John Devine

Overall, 2002 will be a very challenging year for the industry,

Beck

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Beck

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

Beck

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

Beck

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Barry Ritholtz

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Lopez

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Babatunde Osotimehin

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!