American Musician Quotations | Page 4

And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

I like the club. It looks nice with all the tables out. They were freaking out, the Gilly's people.

Every dog has his day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weak-end.

The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

The future is wider than vision, and has no end.

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got.

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

I had had a classical education prior to that.

We will host the Asean summit in November this year. It will be an occasion to reflect on our achievements collectively and to look at how Asean can maintain its leading role in regional and international cooperation.

There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.

I try to be careful to not just say it's a greatest hits show because we've also made efforts to keep people up to date so to speak because we continually write and record and put out albums.

I prepared my intervention the night before I spoke. As it happened, there were about 44 cardinals who wished to speak but could not because there was not enough time. I was one of the last to speak.

We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.

We used to really feel like the band was our family.

Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.

The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we've ever done. The music that I'm thinking about putting on our next album.

There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.

People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.

A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around.

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.

I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.

Britney would make a better prostitute than Christina. She's thicker.

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.

We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now.

I'm planning a different show, though for obvious reasons some of the material will be the same, and of course I will perform material from the new CD.

We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.

Some of the overflow audience actually sat on the stage.

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation.

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?

This guy kept telling us that rock was the big thing, everyone's talking about the big thing, our band was the big thing. So he made us change our name to The Big Thing. Can you believe that?!

I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people.

One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.

She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.

Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks.

For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me.

NYC is chaotic. And I am attracted to chaos.

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

We played in bars and other such establishments and anywhere where people would listen. Sometimes they did, and sometimes not. The outfits we wore were classics of the 50's.

There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.

Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it.

I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talking Heads connection, because we wanted to keep it separate from Talking Heads.

He just had a very unique way of expressing himself physically with his kids.

You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.

I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

Yes, I can play. I can play. I can't play as long as I did and as hard, but I don't think I have to.

I always liked circuses, so I would have enjoyed that.

Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.

When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.

I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to.

What people think of me and my playing is up to them, not me.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

We made music that wouldn't be in synch.

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.

You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone.

Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

Years on, Christine and John still have a deep love for each other, as do Stevie and I - we've been working together since I was 17.

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.

Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.

Hey, I've been doing what I do for a long time, my friend.

You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.

Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

I used to date Latoya for awhile, I was a close freind of the family.

I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.

It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because it was no better in particular than any other record I'd done.

Yeah, I kinda still get nervous sometimes now.

So many have been growing with us from the very beginning of our career. Others are brand new to us.

I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.

So I cut out all the drinkin' and hangin' out and stuff like that early on.

Aerosmith went on The Simpsons and they had fun.

We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other.

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.

A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.

Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes.

I'm going to Yoshi's. I'm taking a few gigs. I'm playing. I'm not going to play all the time. I'm going to take it easy and take it slow and warm up so I can come back.

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.

We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.

I really liked working with Sean Paul; he is a very attractive guy, very hot. He was fun; the chemistry was really great, it was great to be in the moment.

Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

It was time to raise the bar higher, or lower if you're doing limbo.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

I love the way Pharell is laying down great drum tracks. He is a great drummer.

But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it.