Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Goodman

We're going to have our parades, we're going to have our symphonies, our concerts and everyone's going to have good time,

Jack Liebau

With the last few years of consecutive declines in attendance, the trends for live concerts overall aren't particularly encouraging.

Charles Rosen

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

Nancy Idland

We appreciate all our performers for their willingness to donate their time and talents and remind everyone these concerts are totally free. The flowers are blooming, the park is lovely and the talent is there to be enjoyed - come and join us.

Carl Jung

Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices.

Bernie Worrell

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

Betty Buckley

Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.

David Guetta

I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.

Jason Couch

We want folks to leave our concerts feeling better than when they arrived.

Denny Green

Tony is a fabulous coach, ... He was ready for his head job. I just think it's all about opportunity.

Floyd Burnsed

What a fabulous play. When you make a play like that, it gets the adrenaline going.

Shawn Rojeski

We're getting a fabulous response on our Web site. We're getting e-mails from across the United States. We're getting them from people who don't live near a curling club. There are piles of them from people who are looking for a curling club.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

Ken Hildahl

We want to see football in Ottawa. It's a great fan base and has some fabulous potential. But having said that, there's also reality.

Chita Rivera

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

Billy Wilder

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.

Billy Wilder

Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.

Kathleen Finch

When you think of crafting, the sort of old-fashioned notion of crafting, they just busted all those images. In a lot of ways, this is the ultimate DIY project. They found each other, they had an idea, a friend produced the show for them, and they basically delivered the show to us. When we saw it, we thought they had such fabulous chemistry.

Billy Graham

We've always needed God from the very beginning of this nation but today we need Him especially. We're facing a new kind of enemy. We're involved in a new kind of warfare and we need the help of the Spirit of God. The Bible's words are our hope. . . .

Chuck Gillingham

When we went to interview her, she almost canceled. But she had been with her daughter that morning and was thinking if, God forbid, something happened to her daughter that someone would come forward and do the right thing.

Matthew Broderick

When I was little I used to see Godzilla all the time on TV, ... I just remember him knocking things over, which was fine with me. I loved monster movies and disaster movies, and this was a good combination.

Dennis Quaid

When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything.

Roland Martin

When I was in meditation, God began to speak to me, and God said, 'Roland, I have enough preachers. I need people where you are in your positions. When you are on radio, when you are on television, you speak into more people in the five minutes than some preachers speak to in an entire year.'

Benny Hinn

When I taught the little gods doctrine, I was using Scriptures that didn't fit.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

When I was a kid and I'd be in trouble. I'd ask God to help me, and then once the fire was out, I wouldn't talk to Him anymore. When I got older, I began to find I needed some help spiritually, just to function.

Adam Gollner

We respect Band Aid's ability to raise so much money for relief efforts, but their lyrics seem so misguided and inappropriate. Africa isn't a land 'where nothing ever grows' and 'no rain nor river flows.' And how are lines such as, 'Well, tonight, thank God it's them instead of you' supposed to be helpful?

Craig Biggio

We're going to the World Series, ... It sounds weird to say if off my lips. Finally the baseball gods shined on us.

Rebecca Asman

We've always had animals around. We have always loved animals, and wanted to help them.

Murray Bartlett

When we were working on 'Looking' in San Francisco, I bought a new bike from Mission Bicycle Company, which I'm completely in love with.

Jennifer Nettles

When we were at the CMT Awards this year, Robert Plant was there. What an icon, I love him... But I can't go up and speak to him, because I don't want to seem like a goob.

Mary Doria Russell

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.

Courtney Barnett

When I was on the road with Billy Bragg, it was cool because I was doing the whole thing solo and travel a lot by myself, which I quite like. I mean, I love being with friends, but it's kind of nice having that alone time.

Natalie Cole

When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.

Joseph Fiennes

When I was offered the part in ShakespeareIn Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!

Autumn Reeser

When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.

Matthew Broderick

When I was little I used to see Godzilla all the time on TV, ... I just remember him knocking things over, which was fine with me. I loved monster movies and disaster movies, and this was a good combination.

Scott Aiges

We've always had a strong presence (at SXSW), but this year's going to be bigger and better.

Thomas Szasz

Whenever masses of people, especially educated people, know something- and when what they know is something they greatly fear because they believe it affects virtually everything they do or want to do - then most likely we stand in the presence of a

Don Aaron

We would remind people that the Central Police Precinct is headquartered at the GEC. The police presence will be strong.

Rick Rubin

We felt Johnny's presence during the whole process through to the end. It felt like he was directing the proceedings, and I know that the musicians all felt that as well... More than once, Fergie and I would look at each other and say 'Johnny would love this,' because it was so good and so different from anything we'd done before, we knew he would be excited by what was happening.

Mike McCabe

We felt it was really important for their to be a strong citizen presence at the Capitol today and let them know that people are watching and they're not happy with the way the public's business is being conducted.

Riley Wallace

We're going to have to get better on the inside presence because that relieves the pressure so guys can get their outside shots.

Nigel Turner

With the launch of this new airline, BMI will have a strong presence in both the no frills and full service airline sector.

Fouad Siniora

We expressed our views that the presence of armed personnel and armaments outside the camps is not necessary and not helpful, ... As for the presence of armed personnel within the camps, this is going to be looked at in order to organize it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.

John Tesh

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew my jazz background, suggested I try big-band music, so we spent a year experimenting with it in concert, and the audience reaction was really good.

Rich Gaffney

We're going to sing our fight song and alma mater. Our goal is to make it the best first day of school ever.

Randy Helfrich

We're going to have all the old members there, playing the songs that were popular during the time frame that they were in the band. We're going to take people through 25 years of Dixie Express in an 8-hour period.

Sean Kinney

We're going to go and play the songs one more time. It seems like the right time, so I figure we'll go out and play a few gigs and see where it goes. I think we might just show up in assorted places in the U.S. in the next few months without much notice and play some clubs and little theaters, and then go to Europe and play these festival gigs. Beyond that, we don't know at this point.

Frida Lyngstad

Benny and Bjorn, I suppose, already had an idea of which one was going to sing the lead. I mean, they knew perfectly well our ranges and which kind of voice they wanted on a specific song. And sometimes, I envied the choice of Agnetha, I must admit.

Eric Carmen

When we formed the band in 1970, we set out to try to write great songs like the songs we heard when we were growing up,

Randy Huth

We write what we know about. It's easy to write songs about things you're familiar with. We're all collective writers.

Richard Archer

We write songs about ordinary people, not people that have a certain haircut.

Ronnie Williams

We grew up so much we had to limit it to two songs per person.

Mark Ellis

We bring a unique fusion of medspa and business development expertise to market for our clients, ... In close conjunction with the client, the character, style and ambiance of each medspa are in perfect alignment with the elements of its unique community and target market. Passion for an early success manifests itself in the way we usher the client through the construction phase making sure that the architect, contractor and client work together cohesively.

Hu Jintao

We stand ready to seize the opportunity, expand our cooperation and work together to usher in a more beautiful tomorrow for the partnership,

Liane Balaban

I thought I'd be a journalist, and only pursued acting intermittently while studying. My very first interview as a journalist was with David Usher of Moist, and he called the magazine the next day to say it was the best interview he'd done for his solo album. I felt like a million euros.

Kim Fields

Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, usher in worship, true worship and praise, healing. I find the music to be very good at healing and the passion, you know, which is a testimony being told in song.

Laura Bush

What the terrorists have done has caused us to take an assessment of what's important, ... I have been concerned for too long about a culture that says if it feels good just go ahead and do it. I believe that this nation is strong enough, and focused enough, and dedicated enough to usher in a culture that says each of us is responsible for the decisions we make in life.

Prince Royce

I grew up listening to a lot of Usher at 13 and 14. I have every Usher album that ever existed. So I grew up listening to a lot of Usher, Michael Jackson, Luis Miguel, a lot of pioneers in Latin music.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I run with music all the time. I cannot run without my iPod. I have everything. Teddy Pendergrass. Luther Van Dross. Michael Jackson. Outkast. If an Usher song comes on and it's fast, I go fast.

Michael Clarke

He was a very active member of the congregation, both in leadership and participation. ... He was a very pleasant man to be around. He was there every Sunday. I could depend on him to handle the sound system, to usher whenever we needed it. He engaged the members of the congregation in conversation, was willing to joke with people, but not an outgoing, boisterous kind of person.

Nick Lampson

He has left us a legacy of debt, corruption and neglect, and he can't run from it. I think it's something he has helped usher into our Congress that people would like to see changed.