Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daddy Yankee

Reggaeton means the same thing to Latino youth as hip-hop does to African-American kids. We didn't have artists to look up to before. But the young kids now, they're looking at Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderon and Ivy Queen like kids in the American 'hood look up to 50 Cent or 2Pac. I'm representing for my culture and my people. It's their music.

John Cusack

Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.

Keith Davis

Parks was a man of perhaps unparalleled artistic talent.

Susan Baker

Paul Kellogg has been a beloved and visionary leader of City Opera and we will miss him deeply. During the past ten years we have been fortunate to have had the benefit not only of his extraordinary artistic sensibility, his wise counsel and his inspirational leadership, but also of his impeccable human values, warmth and charm. That said, we cannot help but understand that he wishes to have more personal time after many years of service to the arts and we salute and thank him for his formidable accomplishments and significant contributions both to City Opera and to opera in general. Paul Kellogg's vision for City Opera has charted our course for the coming years. We are grateful beyond measure and will miss him profoundly.

Susan Barnes

Our lives are so hectic today. I don't care what we are, artists or whatever, people need to come and enjoy it.

Pam Walker

Our legal folks say we don't have copyright clearance. Graphics artists are working on it as we speak.

Karen Hughes

Our music and film industries, our artists and entertainers create very powerful impressions, sometimes good, sometimes bad, but they're always, always powerful.

Stephanie Szostak

People in fashion treat it as a business... I guess Hollywood is a business, too, but you talk about story: you talk about a more artistic world than in fashion.

James Hunter

People often think that every artist in that realm had the same qualities. If I want emotional intensity, I'll listen to Little Willie John, but if I want some pyrotechnics, I'll go to Jackie Wilson. It's not all the same emotional level, that stuff, which people make the mistake of thinking it is.

Derek Bailey

I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos.

Corin Tucker

I feel really privileged that I've been able to be an activist and a musician for over 20 years now, and I've always been able to say whatever I want. I think that's something we Americans really take for granted, but it's a big deal, and it's not something most people in the world are able to do.

Robert Schumann

The painter turns a poem into a painting; the musician sets a picture to music.

Billie Joe Armstrong

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

Eddie Vedder

Worship the music, not the musicians.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

Adrian Grenier

I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em.

Adrian Grenier

Maybe the idea of being a rockstar or being the one who's recording or playing, sort of doesn't really matter as much anymore, when you're surrounded by great musicians who bring their spirit, their own talent.

Charles Lint

That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

John Williamson

He's been invisible when important policy issues have sprung up. They just seem to have missed opportunity after opportunity.

Deepak Chopra

To have a breakthrough, you must consciously connect with the invisible forces that are everywhere around you, urging you to go beyond your old conditioning.

Adrian Rogers

I am the visible part of the invisible Christ. He is the invisible part of the visible me.

Adam Smith

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

Adam Smith

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Adam Smith

By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

Elisabeth Rohm

I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man.

Pico Iyer

I think one reason, obviously, that I spend so much time in one place is that I've been lucky enough to travel a lot, and now there are other different, invisible trains that are more interesting to me.