Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. B. King

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

Tom Scholz

I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.

Dan Bartlett

The accusations of racism and things like that is something that touched a chord with him. It wasn't one of the finest moments for our government.

June Wozny

I think it will be overwhelming to see. It is a simple idea, but it will look so professional. I think it is going to strike a chord when I see it, and I am just really proud of them.

Rain Phoenix

For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.

Simon Templeman

I think The Hulk really hit a chord with me, I love the Hulk. But, I never dreamt I'd be playing Doctor Doom.

Leo Ornstein

There is a paradox because I think you've struck a chord there that we ought to simply pursue - it is true that music is a form of communication.

Willie Nelson

I always thought Hank Williams was a great person to listen to, ... because his messages were simple, to the point, usually just three chords but they hit you right in the bone.

Jesse Harris

Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you're a new guitar player learning Neil Young songs, you'll learn some seven chords, and some different positions. Nothing too complicated, just enough to kind of open up your knowledge a little bit.

Michael Vaughan

Spin's going to play a big part, but we've come up with a formula to tackle India's slow wickets.

Joseph Jackson

some form of normalcy with all the madness going on.

Tadahito Iguchi

Our pitching staff is not in good form recently, so we need to provide support with good offense and fielding.

Jim Navolio

Our statement is strong on the non-proliferation of gambling. Is this going to make it through the legislature in the form presented? That's highly unlikely.

Bruce Condon

Our formula is simple. We don't have additives.

Kurt Barnard

plays itself out on Main Street U.S.A. in the form of muted retail sales.

Paul Perry

I'm hoping this turns out to be a very strong form race.

Jeff Johnson

We'll also have it set up with all the necessary forms to submit your film online, and generally have the Web page be a better way for people to get information about the festival.

Paul Holmes

It is a style of broadcasting that has been missing from the New Zealand television landscape for a number of years. The longer length interview format will give me the opportunity to find out what makes the guests tick.

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.

Edward Kennedy

I think the Vice-President ought to re-read the constitution.

Patrick Perry

Life's been good, my wife's been wonderful, and 20 years I thought we ought to celebrate.

Ruth Rendell

It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.

Richard Richards

I still think they ought to give it back,

Lady Bird Johnson

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

Wally Snyder

I had wanted them so much to be like the other kids. There was no reason for them not to have the kind of things that they ought to have.

Christine Gregoire

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

Val Guest

At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.

Evel Knievel

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

Ani Difranco

There's a paradox in every paradigm.

Earl Warren

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.

Charlie Munger

Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not.

Oscar Wilde

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth.

Jeffrey Eugenides

All wisdom ends in paradox.

George Bernard Shaw

Paradoxes are the only truths.

George Carlin

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

Mason Cooley

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

Dan Stephens

We'll aggressively pursue ... (the lawsuit) as was planned.

John Hume

That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.

Bakul Dholakia

If we wish to rub shoulders with them, then we have to pursue a similar strategy.

Kerri Strug

I think it's just really important for youth today to have a passion and pursue something seriously.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.

Oona Chaplin

I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue an acting career. I did get in, though, and that was that.

Tod Kowalczyk

We've got to find a way to pursue the ball.

Jim Margolin

We often receive threat information. We run it out. We pursue it.

Hussein Chalayan

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

Robert Rubin

I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done,

Jose Barroso

It is not satisfactory, it is simply not enough.

Jack Whittaker

I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

Angelina Jolie

it is simply not going to be enough.

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

David Hernandez

I think she struck me as being a little overwhelmed,

Ken Jury

It immediately struck me as being ambergris -- it couldn't be anything else.

Rease Watson

One thing that has struck me the most is the hundreds of (electricians) out here. They're working their tails off. They're from all over the place.

Charles V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Terry Jorde

This has struck a nerve. Thousands of them.

Susan Collins

They struck me as not the typical request.

Christine Arron

They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.

Antonia Bird

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.

Judy Garland

He struck me many times. He did a lot of drinking.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

C. S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C. S. Lewis

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Bertrand Russell

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

David Spears

That's a true dilemma. But we don't know any way to get around it. The work has got to be done.

Eric Wise

I was always true to her. I am not a predator.

Aimee Teegarden

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Blake Mycoskie

The more you give, the more you live.