Roy Wood Quotes
When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
Sally Ride -
In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
Barbara Lynn -
I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine -
I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.
Oleg Cassini -
I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.'
Bebe Neuwirth
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
Usain Bolt -
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
Barry Diller -
Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.
Zac Brown Band -
Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.
Taiye Selasi -
My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.
Natalie Gulbis
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There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.
Ian Anderson -
He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
Adam Jones -
First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.
Nazanin Boniadi -
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
Jack Prelutsky -
What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
Daisy Berkowitz
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From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are.
Boz Scaggs The Steve Miller Band -
I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.
Rafael Nadal -
Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
Marilyn Monroe -
Any MP has to have a proper family life; they have to have support of their partner.
Margaret Moran -
Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant - it's so cheap - but that wing pack isn't feeding anyone, it's just pushing hunger back an hour.
Mario Batali -
When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.
Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra