Quotes of: Billie-holiday Keyword

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

Maynard Ferguson

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

Jimmy Rushing

We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started.

Charlie Daniels

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

Guy Laliberte

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

Katherine Jenkins

A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.

Ronald Isley

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

Merle Haggard

I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.

Muddy Waters

I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.

Trevor Dunn

If I go onstage, I want to give people everything they want and more. I'll wash their car for them on their way out.

Trent Reznor

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

Orson Welles

My first memories of life were in rehearsal; that's why I can sleep through anything.

Robert Glasper

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

Charlie Watts

When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

David Sanborn

I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.

Billy Higgins

The United States is a beautiful place, you know?

Billy Higgins

I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.

Brandon Boyd

What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.

Bill Laswell

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

David Sanborn

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

Robert Glasper

I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.

Acker Bilk