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
  • You
  • Space
  • First

• We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • First
  • Independence
  • Needed

• 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
  • Good
  • Music
  • Home

• 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
  • World
  • Band
  • Sacrifice

• I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • World
  • American
  • First

• 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.
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Band

• The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.'

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Hair
  • First
  • Broadway

• I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Remember
  • First
  • Race

• I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Business
  • First
  • Transition

• 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
  • Band
  • Face
  • Lion

• 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
  • Happy
  • First
  • Musicians

• 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
  • Summer
  • First
  • Africa

• The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Band
  • Always
  • Never

• My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Different
  • Taken
  • Golf

• As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Family
  • First
  • Wonderful

• 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
  • Money
  • Band
  • Best

• He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Fight
  • First
  • Give

• I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Think
  • Band
  • Worst

• We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Past
  • Marriage
  • Same

• Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Long
  • Goal
  • President

• Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Strong
  • Peace
  • Leadership

• I hate spam, and that's what happens when you let businesses onto the network.

  

  Jan Koum
  • Hate

• What interested me about Chuck Berry was the way he could step out of the rhythm part with such ease, throwing in a nice, simple riff, and then drop straight into the feel of it again. We used to play a lot more rhythm stuff. We'd do away with the differences between lead and rhythm guitar. You can't go into a shop and ask for a "lead guitar". You're a guitar player, and you play a guitar.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Way
  • Rhythm
  • Chuck Berry

• 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
  • Band
  • First
  • Harmonies