Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Shawn McDowell

We've always thought this senior class had the physical skills, it was a matter of them jelling together as a unit. A year can make a big difference both mentally and physically and the kids have really matured.

Richard Foreman

We've always respected Israel's right to defend itself, including going after armed groups and armed men in some of these areas. But we've always said they need to do that in a manner which has the utmost care to avoid harm to civilians, particularly when they're conducting operations in heavily populated areas. And we've said that often results in tragedies and numerous deaths. And that appears to be what's happened again.

Ransom Antoine

When we were up by 10, I thought we had it, but we couldn't get it together. We had the mental lapse that we normally have.

Tom Jordan

When we were asked to go down there and help, the city only had four hours to make a decision, ... They said at the time that they couldn't send the men or the truck because of budget constraints and I respect that decision.

Bryce Taylor

When it comes down to it, it seems like we are putting too much pressure on ourselves. As a shooter, you have to stay confident. It's all mental when it comes to our shooting.

Bob Watkins

When it came time for the announcers to introduce Elvis, the stadium was filled with anticipation. At the mention of Elvis' name, the modest crowd cheered and looked expectantly at the parked Cadillac.

Nick Saban

We're modern-day gladiators, that mental toughness, if you will, is really important to have in a good team. It's got to permeate your team and there has to be a core group of guys that buy in and believe in that.

Nick Saban

We're modern-day gladiators, and that mental toughness is really important to have (in) a good team. It's got to permeate your team, and there has to be a core group of guys that buy in and believe in that.

Tony Vis

We're mentally tough and we were not going to go away. We got down 10 and could have easily folded the tent on the big stage. The kids just kept fighting and plugging away and got us back into that thing. They put us in a great position at halftime.

Susan Roberts

What about the next artist in Anaconda who wants to paint something downtown?

James Bailey

What he did in the artistic field is what a lot of Japan's top name manufacturers did in their field.

Kamanda Ndama

What has happened to music? Music used to show love and devotion, but know it preaches hate and stupidity. We artists must learn everything we say is going to affect the world. Every line, so don't preach death, preach love.

Richard Duffy

We felt it was important for people to have that part of their life available in the Helena community. Now there are many artists here in the Helena community. There are artists who have moved here for that very reason.

Lesley Garrett

What's real is your ability to sing, your ability to entertain the public, your goals to be the best artist you can.

Max Cannon

We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between.

Susan Sontag

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

Kylie Jenner

Working with some of the best makeup artists has taught me a lot of amazing tricks to making me feel more confident, and I can't wait to share them with you guys.

Sheri Miller

With the high percentage of Spanish speakers, we wanted these kids to have an artistic outlet, too.