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.

Arthur Miller

Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.

Danny Boyle

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

Bono

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

Rupert Adams

If Preston pops the question he will not be the only one on his knees.

Gerry Beckley

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

Laura Merritt

We shut them down and another one pops up.

Jackie Robinson

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

Iggy Pop

If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.

Kate Bush

Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States.

Tom Chatfield

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Simone de Beauvoir

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

Winston Churchill

Nature will not be admired by proxy.