Maynard Ferguson Quotes
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
Vaughn Monroe -
You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
Eddie Murphy -
I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
Nancy Allen -
I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
Ville Valo HIM -
I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
Flavor Flav -
I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
B. B. King
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
Adam Lambert -
Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
Gavin Bryars -
I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
Mac DeMarco -
Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
Becky G -
The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
Walter Becker China Crisis
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I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.
Ed Sheeran -
When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
A. N. Wilson -
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken -
When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
K. Flay -
I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
Ina Garten -
I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
Kate Bush
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I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool.
Jimmy Iovine -
There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
Sally Field -
Death and the dice level all distinctions.
Samuel Foote -
The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.
Sandra Bernhard -
I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music.
James Marsters -
Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.
Maynard Ferguson