Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grandmaster Flash

I was the first DJ to make the turntable an instrument.

Hannibal Buress

I go to a lot of rap shows and sometimes take what they do from a performer's aspect, how they interact with the crowd. I always have a DJ with me on the road, as well as some dancers.

Clinton Sparks

He was an original, an innovator, and his influence will forever live on in our culture. Whether they know it or not, all DJs have been influenced by him. Thank you, DJ AM.

Todd Rundgren

I was lucky enough to grow up in an era when radio was less formatted. It was really special. You could hear a jazz song then a pop song then a show tune then some jazz. Basically, whatever the DJ felt like playing, he would play. He was educating you and exposing you to things you would never hear otherwise.

Grandmaster Flash

My contribution to this whole thing is I was the first DJ to take an inanimate object called the turntable and play it like it was an instrument.

Grandmaster Flash

My contribution is: I was the first DJ to make the turntable an instrument.

Daren Causey

Music has always been an inspiring factor in my work, and this piece portrays a DJ performing his craft.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.

Jennifer Kern

Our money should be going toward educating young people, not putting them under these surveillance programs.

Stuart Townsend

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

Dick Armey

I guess I'm a little disappointed in the president who says unless you're willing to do everything my way I will characterize you as being unwilling to do anything. Those are not the fair terms for debate. And quite frankly, Mr. President, you know better than that. You know how much our heart is in educating these children,

Douglas Booth

'GQ,' you've been patiently and stylishly educating me forever. To be truly stylish, you have to be kind and courteous.

David Horowitz

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

Rand Paul

The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?

Jeffrey Runge

This study is indeed good news. But we must never let our guard down, especially in educating new parents.

Robert Reich

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people.

Lee Terry

I think we need to do a better job of educating the adults in our society that it shouldn't be a right of passage.

David Potts

Remember that what we do is not 'to' or 'for' the poor, ... but 'with' the poor. And even if we fail to eradicate poverty in this area, it will be a glorious failure!

Beck

With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.

Beck

I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era.

David Liss

We live in this era that has benefited from the Industrial Revolution, and we live with a kind of luxury and plenty that even all but the poorest of Americans live with a kind of sensuousness that was unimagined by medieval kings. But in order to get to this point, a lot of people had to suffer in really terrible ways.

Antoine Rivarol

Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.

Louis Freeh

It is a testament to the American judicial system and the American people that 25 years have not been able to erase or soften the facts of the case,

Lorenzo Codogno

That whole era is gone for good and not many people will regret its passing.

E. B. White

It is extremely brazen and it's a top-down fraud, ... It involved literally erasing expenses from the general ledger.

Paul Allen

I felt like I was part of the new era of the Seattle Seahawks,

Brady Hoke

I think we all have to be a little more sensible about what we're trying to do. There is something to be said about exposing your program to the nation, but playing three BCS teams a year? That takes its toll.

Ban Ki-moon

Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

Sevyn Streeter

Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get through the day just by hearing a song, it's well worth it.

Rachel Sklar

For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.

Matthew Nable

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

Hussein Chalayan

Being a part of exhibitions is not a burden; it's another way for an independent label such as mine to reach a larger audience by exposing them to my whole body of work.

Dan Barnett

This was not a bathing suit scenario. This was a grown man exposing himself to an 8-year-old girl.

Paul Watson

I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth.

Wayne Krivsky

He's a quick-read guy. We're exposing him to all phases of the operation. We'll see where he fits in.

Pat Robertson

(Regarding his prayers to keep Hurricane Gloria away from Virginia Beach) It was 'extremely important because I felt that if I couldn't move a hurricane, I could hardly move a nation

Nancy Lopez

Paula can't wait to get out of the gate. She's ready to play, so I felt playing her first was important. She has not stopped talking about playing in this event. She's excited. I love it. I want her to get out there and do it.

Marty Hickman

Our membership felt that something had to be done to level the playing field.

Kevin Huck

Our motivation was way up. We felt like we needed to come out and prove ourselves.

Charles Ramsey

Suffice it to say it took a few interviews, but we did get the information we felt was important at the time,

Sarah Parker

Suddenly, I felt like I was wearing patchouli in a room full of Chanel.

Rod Argent

Suddenly, and for the first time in all these years, it felt honest and right to include the name 'Zombies' somewhere on the album.

I. Stone

State, repeat. It felt so good. There was, like, five seconds, and I was thinking 'hold the ball.' It felt so good.

Joe Wilhelm

Stanford is the No. 7 team in the nation, and we were with them the whole way. I felt we raced a lot better on Sunday.

Josh Homme

Records don't have to be perfect. Everyone doesn't have to move left when everyone else moves left. I love hearing the mistakes.

Dave Riggins

Or, if they like it, we'd like to hear that too.

Nicky Hilton

Paris is really young at heart - I'm the older one in the relationship. I'm always telling her not to do stuff. If she's wearing something really silly, I'm like, "Don't go out wearing that.

Frank Gore

Patience, patience, patience. I was telling my mom, I'm tired of hearing that, ... But I understand it.

Gerard Warren

Part of me is still in Cleveland. But that's the past. My heart and my mind are in Denver.

Michael Gallagher

Our only ladder truck is more than 20 years old. Have you ever heard of metal fatigue?

Yvette Salazar

Our members have the right to hear about this offer from our officers ... and then to make up their own mind.

John Taylor

People have been overwhelmed by the graphical performance, but I haven't heard it described in those terms,

Michael Montalto

People need to go to a professional shoe store, and they don't like to hear that because they know it will be expensive. But these are your feet, and having the proper shoes can save you from a lot of toe and back problems in the future.

Sam Bush

Jean-Luc is my violin jazz hero, ... So to have him come out and play that tune with us at Telluride was just a freakout.

Renaud Vabres

Jazz in New Orleans - that's what the world loves.

Claude Nobs

I was working in the local tourist office and I said to the manager, 'We should do something to make Montreux known in America. Let's do a jazz festival!

John Reynolds

I do a lot (of business) with local jazz players.

David Pierce

Kelsey plays the piano, and he's also a tremendous singer. I'm classically trained, and he's more of a jazz improvisatory pianist. So, we don't usually sit down and play together.

Chuck D.

I had just seen the movie 'Young Man With a Horn' about jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke. So I told him I'd take one of those.

Ethan Iverson

I think the jazz musicians have had less problems than people who feel jazz should be just one thing.

Keith Jarrett

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

Jeremy Davenport

New Orleans is where jazz was born, and jazz is my passion.

Phil Savage

Reggie has a lot of talent. In my opinion, with Reggie Bush, more could be less and less could be more.

Sathya Baba

Peace is shore less ocean - it is the light that illuminates the world.

Katsuhiko Machida

Survival today means innovating and doing things that no one else does. This is a lesson not only for Sharp but for all of Japan.

Drew Frank

That'd be nice. Maybe I should. As I teach, I don't keep lesson plans from one year to the next and I don't keep anything from one season to the next.

Stephen M. Walt

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

Andy Newman

Remember every storm is different. The better prepared you are, the less of an inconvenience it's going to be.

Louis Benevides

Plano West is just an up-and-coming team. They've come a long way in less than a season.

Darrell Nichols

I think there's less tolerance for repeat problems. I think they are now going to be a little more strict with what's going on.

Larry Colagiovanni

That was his normal route. He said he didn't like (Interstate) 95. Less traffic. Less lights.

Lynne Black

Our position right now is that this is not an appropriate program and population to put in a heavily populated two-square-mile village.

Mike Smith

Some of the more popular schools could be filled.

Jane Goodall

Some often refer to the population as 150,000.

Lucio Gutierrez

I will regain the presidency by way of the constitution, the truth and popular support,

Ember Swift

Jazz: it's got folk, it's got funk, it's got various international influences...it's also got some pop and rock elements.

Johnny Depp

That would really send my popularity to the depths.

James Shuler

I thought I was going to pop it. No one was going to take that away from me.

Roger Ortmeier

He was battling. He was throwing strikes and he had a lot of pop on his fastball. He was locating it really well.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Sam Moore

It is arrogance. It's like we don't exist. One radio personality said to me, 'Well, Sam, what does it matter, it's only about the music.' Sorry, it's not.

Bill Burr

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously.

James Thomas

I got a lot of my training in radio and TV there.

Alan Dershowitz

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

Al Franken

The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.

Dominic Chianese

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

Art Garfunkel

I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.

Dick Van Dyke

I wanted to be a radio announcer.

Nicole Polizzi

We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like prison, with cameras.

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.

Adam Baldwin

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

Colum McCann

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.

Donald Curtis

An aware person is in tune with all the powers of God and makes them his or her own.

Chuck Grassley

All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN

Anthony Hopkins

There's many a good tune played by an old banjo.

David Icke

If I get a computer and I tune it to the Internet, it will pick up the Internet from the invisible realms that I can't see.

Carlos Castaneda

...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

Agnetha Faltskog

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.

Calvin Harris

There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

Phil Kessel

I don't have to worry about it right now. I'm just going to go out there and play and whatever happens, happens.

Jon Lovitz

There are some actors who say, 'What do you want me to do? I'll do whatever you want,' and that's all they do, ... I kind of go to the other extreme. I say, 'I have an idea. Can I try something?'

Keke Palmer

Whatever my situation is, I want to show that I'm not perfect, and perfect isn't real. The youth need to know that, especially.

William E. Conway, Jr.

If I'm going to create 1,000 jobs, or 10,000 jobs, or whatever the number is, wouldn't we all be better off?

Katharine Liell

It didn't matter. Whatever he said, he was going to be arrested, wasn't that true?

Long Qiming

I was doing my job. I'm a Chinese, and I had to do whatever was needed.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He's a very, very important part of whatever we do. We want Melo with us for a long time.

Orlando Dominguez

Whatever we can do to better our responses, we'll do.

Gary Brown

Whatever we can do for the kids, it's worth it.