Jerry Lee Lewis ("Killer Pianist")

Either be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you forth from His mouth. Jerry Lee Lewis

Hippies? Why, I'm the original. Jerry Lee Lewis

I'm a rompin', stompin', piano playing son of a bitch. A mean son of a bitch.
Jerry Lee Lewis

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.
Jerry Lee Lewis

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.
Jerry Lee Lewis

When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music.
Jerry Lee Lewis

Y'know, there's nothin' like tearing up a good club now and then.
Jerry Lee Lewis

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian! Jerry Lee Lewis

Olivia Newton-John

Family, nature and health all go together.
Olivia Newton-John

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.
Olivia Newton-John

I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.
Olivia Newton-John

I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
Olivia Newton-John

I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
Olivia Newton-John

I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life.
Olivia Newton-John

I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young.
Olivia Newton-John

My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere.
Olivia Newton-John

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
Olivia Newton-John

Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
Olivia Newton-John

The only weights I lift are my dogs.
Olivia Newton-John

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
Olivia Newton-John

We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.
Olivia Newton-John

Jim Henson

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.
Jim Henson

And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow.
Jim Henson

At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.
Jim Henson

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
Jim Henson

But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.
Jim Henson

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
Jim Henson

I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.
Jim Henson

I think my own strengths are in television production.
Jim Henson

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
Jim Henson

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.
Jim Henson

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
Jim Henson

If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.
Jim Henson

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.
Jim Henson

It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.
Jim Henson

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
Jim Henson

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
Jim Henson

NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.
Jim Henson

No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
Jim Henson

Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.
Jim Henson

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
Jim Henson

There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.
Jim Henson

We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.
Jim Henson

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.
Jim Henson

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.
Jim Henson

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
Jim Henson

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.
Jim Henson

Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.
Jim Henson

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.
Jim Henson

Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.
Jim Henson

Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.
Jim Henson

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.
Jim Henson

Jason Alexander

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.
Jason Alexander

I still don't know much about directing a movie.
Jason Alexander

I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.
Jason Alexander

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.
Jason Alexander

The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
Jason Alexander

The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.
Jason Alexander

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.
Jason Alexander

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
Jason Alexander

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.
Jason Alexander

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.
Jason Alexander

Ray Charles

Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.
Ray Charles

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
Ray Charles

I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.
Ray Charles

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
Ray Charles

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
Ray Charles

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
Ray Charles

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
Ray Charles

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
Ray Charles

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.
Ray Charles

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
Ray Charles

My version of "Georgia" became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.
Ray Charles

The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.
Ray Charles

There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.
Ray Charles

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, "If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles."
Ray Charles

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.
Ray Charles

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
Ray Charles

'The Boss'

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.
Bruce Springsteen

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
Bruce Springsteen

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.
Bruce Springsteen

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
Bruce Springsteen

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
Bruce Springsteen

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.
Bruce Springsteen

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
Bruce Springsteen

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
Bruce Springsteen

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.
Bruce Springsteen

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
Bruce Springsteen

I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.
Bruce Springsteen

I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.
Bruce Springsteen

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
Bruce Springsteen

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.
Bruce Springsteen

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
Bruce Springsteen

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.
Bruce Springsteen

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.
Bruce Springsteen

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.
Bruce Springsteen

In America everything's about who's number one today.
Bruce Springsteen

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.
Bruce Springsteen

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.
Bruce Springsteen

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
Bruce Springsteen

It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.
Bruce Springsteen

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
Bruce Springsteen

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
Bruce Springsteen

No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.
Bruce Springsteen

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
Bruce Springsteen

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.
Bruce Springsteen

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
Bruce Springsteen

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
Bruce Springsteen

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
Bruce Springsteen

The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.
Bruce Springsteen

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.
Bruce Springsteen

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
Bruce Springsteen

When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.
Bruce Springsteen

When it comes to luck, you make your own.
Bruce Springsteen

Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.
Bruce Springsteen

Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.
Bruce Springsteen

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.
Bruce Springsteen

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.
Bruce Springsteen

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
Bruce Springsteen

"ELVIS"

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
Elvis Presley

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Elvis Presley

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
Elvis Presley

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis Presley

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Elvis Presley

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.
Elvis Presley

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.
Elvis Presley

I don't do any vulgar movements.
Elvis Presley

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley

I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.
Elvis Presley

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
Elvis Presley

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
Elvis Presley

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
Elvis Presley

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
Elvis Presley

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
Elvis Presley

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.
Elvis Presley

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.
Elvis Presley

I miss my singing career very much.
Elvis Presley

I never expected to be anybody important.
Elvis Presley

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
Elvis Presley

I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.
Elvis Presley

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.
Elvis Presley

I was an overnight sensation.
Elvis Presley

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
Elvis Presley

I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.
Elvis Presley

I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me.
Elvis Presley

I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.
Elvis Presley

I'll stay in Memphis.
Elvis Presley

I'm no hillbilly singer.
Elvis Presley

I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
Elvis Presley

I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
Elvis Presley

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
Elvis Presley

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.
Elvis Presley

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.
Elvis Presley

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.
Elvis Presley

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
Elvis Presley

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
Elvis Presley

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.
Elvis Presley

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
Elvis Presley

Man, I really like Vegas.
Elvis Presley

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.
Elvis Presley

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.
Elvis Presley

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.
Elvis Presley

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.
Elvis Presley

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
Elvis Presley

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'
Elvis Presley

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.
Elvis Presley

That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.
Elvis Presley

The army teaches boys to think like men.
Elvis Presley

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
Elvis Presley

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.
Elvis Presley

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
Elvis Presley

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
Elvis Presley

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
Elvis Presley

There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
Elvis Presley

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.
Elvis Presley

Those movies sure got me into a rut.
Elvis Presley

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
Elvis Presley

Too much TV hurts movies.
Elvis Presley

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
Elvis Presley

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.
Elvis Presley

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.
Elvis Presley

When I get married, it'll be no secret.
Elvis Presley

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
Elvis Presley

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
Elvis Presley

"Mama" Cass Elliot

Honesty is all you need.
Cass Elliot

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.
Cass Elliot

I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?
Cass Elliot

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.
Cass Elliot

If you really think you're right, you should tell it.
Cass Elliot

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.
Cass Elliot

My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.
Cass Elliot

There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.
Cass Elliot

They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.
Cass Elliot

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when they present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.
Cass Elliot

Brian May (Queen Guitarist)

A good video can make all the difference.
Brian May

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.
Brian May

At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever.
Brian May

Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear.
Brian May

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.
Brian May

Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.
Brian May

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.
Brian May

For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.
Brian May

From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band.
Brian May

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
Brian May

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.
Brian May

I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis.
Brian May

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.
Brian May

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.
Brian May

I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.
Brian May

I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.
Brian May

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.
Brian May

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.
Brian May

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it.
Brian May

I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.
Brian May

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.
Brian May

Mantovani was a great influence on me.
Brian May

Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.
Brian May

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.
Brian May

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.
Brian May

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.
Brian May

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
Brian May

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.
Brian May

There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in.
Brian May

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.
Brian May

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.
Brian May

There's nothing I'm embarrassed about.
Brian May

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
Brian May

Rita Rudner

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.
Rita Rudner

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner

I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.
Rita Rudner

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.
Rita Rudner

I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.
Rita Rudner

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.
Rita Rudner

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.
Rita Rudner

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
Rita Rudner

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
Rita Rudner

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
Rita Rudner

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudner

It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.
Rita Rudner

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
Rita Rudner

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?
Rita Rudner

Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.
Rita Rudner

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner

Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before.
Rita Rudner

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
Rita Rudner

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.
Rita Rudner

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
Rita Rudner

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.
Rita Rudner

My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.
Rita Rudner

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Rita Rudner

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.
Rita Rudner

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?
Rita Rudner

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
Rita Rudner

The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.
Rita Rudner

The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.
Rita Rudner

They usually have two tellers at my local bank, except when it's very busy, then they have one.
Rita Rudner

To attract men, I wear a perfume called "New Car Interior."
Rita Rudner

We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.
Rita Rudner

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
Rita Rudner

Richard Marx

And to any new fans we made along the way, I say... welcome to our party. It's just starting to get going.
Richard Marx

As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award.
Richard Marx

But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs.
Richard Marx

But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.
Richard Marx

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.
Richard Marx

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.
Richard Marx

I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.
Richard Marx

I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.
Richard Marx

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.
Richard Marx

I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.
Richard Marx

I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?
Richard Marx

I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!
Richard Marx

I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.
Richard Marx

I think I do better when things are a little tougher.
Richard Marx

I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.
Richard Marx

I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.
Richard Marx

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.
Richard Marx

I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.
Richard Marx

I've always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay.
Richard Marx

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.
Richard Marx

I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now.
Richard Marx

In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.
Richard Marx

It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.
Richard Marx

It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.
Richard Marx

My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs.
Richard Marx

One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.
Richard Marx

People take songs so literally.
Richard Marx

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.
Richard Marx

The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.
Richard Marx

When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.
Richard Marx

David Copperfield

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
David Copperfield

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.
David Copperfield

No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.
David Copperfield

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
David Copperfield

Bill Gates

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
Bill Gates

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
Bill Gates

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Bill Gates

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
Bill Gates

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
Bill Gates

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Bill Gates

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill Gates

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
Bill Gates

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Bill Gates

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
Bill Gates

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Bill Gates

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
Bill Gates

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Bill Gates

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
Bill Gates

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill Gates

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
Bill Gates

Life is not fair; get used to it.
Bill Gates

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
Bill Gates

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
Bill Gates

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
Bill Gates

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill Gates

People everywhere love Windows.
Bill Gates

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
Bill Gates

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill Gates

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Bill Gates

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill Gates

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
Bill Gates

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
Bill Gates

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
Bill Gates

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Bill Gates

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill Gates

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
Bill Gates

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
Bill Gates

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
Bill Gates

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
Bill Gates

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
Bill Gates

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.
Bill Gates

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.
Bill Gates

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates

Oprah Winfrey

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
Oprah Winfrey

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
Oprah Winfrey

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
Oprah Winfrey

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
Oprah Winfrey

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey

For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.
Oprah Winfrey

I always knew I was destined for greatness.
Oprah Winfrey

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
Oprah Winfrey

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
Oprah Winfrey

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Oprah Winfrey

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
Oprah Winfrey

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
Oprah Winfrey

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
Oprah Winfrey

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
Oprah Winfrey

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Oprah Winfrey

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
Oprah Winfrey

I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.
Oprah Winfrey

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
Oprah Winfrey

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
Oprah Winfrey

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
Oprah Winfrey

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
Oprah Winfrey

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.
Oprah Winfrey

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
Oprah Winfrey

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah Winfrey

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
Oprah Winfrey

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
Oprah Winfrey

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Oprah Winfrey

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey

Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Oprah Winfrey

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
Oprah Winfrey

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
Oprah Winfrey

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
Oprah Winfrey

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
Oprah Winfrey

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah Winfrey

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Oprah Winfrey

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
Oprah Winfrey

You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Oprah Winfrey

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
Oprah Winfrey

Tommy Lee Jones

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.
Tommy Lee Jones

I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.
Tommy Lee Jones

I look upon pride as a sin.
Tommy Lee Jones

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
Tommy Lee Jones

Joan Collins

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
Joan Collins

And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I've found my prince.
Joan Collins

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.
Joan Collins

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.
Joan Collins

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.
Joan Collins

And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.
Joan Collins

Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.
Joan Collins

But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.
Joan Collins

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
Joan Collins

I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.
Joan Collins

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.
Joan Collins

I don't believe in dieting.
Joan Collins

I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.
Joan Collins

I have a lot of male friends.
Joan Collins

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.
Joan Collins

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.
Joan Collins

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.
Joan Collins

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.
Joan Collins

I think dieting is bad for you.
Joan Collins

I think health is another exceedingly important thing.
Joan Collins

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.
Joan Collins

I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.
Joan Collins

I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.
Joan Collins

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.
Joan Collins

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
Joan Collins

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.
Joan Collins

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
Joan Collins

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
Joan Collins

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.
Joan Collins

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
Joan Collins

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
Joan Collins

Well I've written four beauty books as well.
Joan Collins

Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that.
Joan Collins

Cher

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.
Cher

Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.
Cher

Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.
Cher

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.
Cher

Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.
Cher

I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.
Cher

I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.
Cher

I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.
Cher

I kill myself for my body.
Cher

I only answer to two people, myself and God.
Cher

I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.
Cher

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.
Cher

I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.
Cher

I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.
Cher

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
Cher

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.
Cher

I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.
Cher

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.
Cher

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher

If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?
Cher

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.
Cher

It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life.
Cher

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
Cher

Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.
Cher

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
Cher

Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.
Cher

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.
Cher

To me marriage is for five or ten years.
Cher

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
Cher

Women are the real architects of society.
Cher

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
Cher

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.
Cher

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.
Cher

You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.
Cher

Barry White

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
Barry White

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
Barry White

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
Barry White

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
Barry White

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
Barry White

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
Barry White

I try to tell a story musically in a song.
Barry White

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
Barry White

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
Barry White

I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
Barry White

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
Barry White

Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
Barry White

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
Barry White

No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
Barry White

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
Barry White

People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
Barry White

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
Barry White

The whole system of society tells you what to do.
Barry White

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
Barry White

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.
Barry White

We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
Barry White

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
Barry White

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
Barry White

Siobhan Fahey

Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.
Siobhan Fahey

Being a woman is really crap.
Siobhan Fahey

Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.
Siobhan Fahey

Fashion goes round in circles.
Siobhan Fahey

I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls.
Siobhan Fahey

I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.
Siobhan Fahey

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.
Siobhan Fahey

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
Siobhan Fahey

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.
Siobhan Fahey

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.
Siobhan Fahey

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
Siobhan Fahey

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
Siobhan Fahey

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.
Siobhan Fahey

I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.
Siobhan Fahey

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.
Siobhan Fahey

I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.
Siobhan Fahey

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.
Siobhan Fahey

I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.
Siobhan Fahey

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.
Siobhan Fahey

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.
Siobhan Fahey

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.
Siobhan Fahey

I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.
Siobhan Fahey

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.
Siobhan Fahey

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.
Siobhan Fahey

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
Siobhan Fahey

It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.
Siobhan Fahey

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
Siobhan Fahey

Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.
Siobhan Fahey

Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.
Siobhan Fahey

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
Siobhan Fahey

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.
Siobhan Fahey

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
Siobhan Fahey

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.
Siobhan Fahey

There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.
Siobhan Fahey

They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn't know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and media industry.
Siobhan Fahey

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.
Siobhan Fahey

We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.
Siobhan Fahey

When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.
Siobhan Fahey

You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.
Siobhan Fahey

Michael Keaton

High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.
Michael Keaton

There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.
Michael Keaton

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?
Michael Keaton

Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.
Roger Waters

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.
Roger Waters

I confess I've never felt like a passenger.
Roger Waters

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
Roger Waters

I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.
Roger Waters

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.
Roger Waters

It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.
Roger Waters

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain is hurled, but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
Roger Waters

We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting.
Roger Waters

Freddie Mercury

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event!
Freddie Mercury

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.
Freddie Mercury

Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Boys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.
Freddie Mercury

But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together.
Freddie Mercury

I always knew I was a star and now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.
Freddie Mercury

I dress to kill, but tastefully.
Freddie Mercury

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art in graphics and illustration.
Freddie Mercury

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.
Freddie Mercury

I have fun with my clothes on stage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.
Freddie Mercury

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.
Freddie Mercury

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.
Freddie Mercury

I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.
Freddie Mercury

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
Freddie Mercury

I won't be a rock star, I will be a legend.
Freddie Mercury

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.
Freddie Mercury

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.
Freddie Mercury

I'm not into business at all.
Freddie Mercury

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.
Freddie Mercury

If we're weird on stage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.
Freddie Mercury

In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.
Freddie Mercury

Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
Freddie Mercury

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
Freddie Mercury

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
Freddie Mercury

One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.
Freddie Mercury

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.
Freddie Mercury

The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.
Freddie Mercury

The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.
Freddie Mercury

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.
Freddie Mercury

We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.
Freddie Mercury

We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
Freddie Mercury

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .
Freddie Mercury

We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.
Freddie Mercury

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?
Freddie Mercury

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
Freddie Mercury

The whole point of Queen was to be original.
Freddie Mercury

Who wants to live forever?
Freddie Mercury

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and sounds splendid.
Freddie Mercury

You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs and I don't even believe in astrology.
Freddie Mercury

Christa McAuliffe (Teacher/Astronaut)

Every shuttle mission's been successful.
Christa McAuliffe

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.
Christa McAuliffe

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.
Christa McAuliffe

I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.
Christa McAuliffe

I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.
Christa McAuliffe

I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.
Christa McAuliffe

I touch the future. I teach.
Christa McAuliffe

I was a little concerned with how the crew was going to view me because I didn't know whether this program had been kinda forced down their throats. But they were wonderful.
Christa McAuliffe

I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.
Christa McAuliffe

I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.
Christa McAuliffe

If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.
Christa McAuliffe

If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.
Christa McAuliffe

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.
Christa McAuliffe

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.
Christa McAuliffe

My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.
Christa McAuliffe

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.
Christa McAuliffe

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.
Christa McAuliffe

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
Christa McAuliffe

Reach for the stars.
Christa McAuliffe

Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.
Christa McAuliffe

Space is going to be commonplace.
Christa McAuliffe

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
Christa McAuliffe

The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle.
Christa McAuliffe

We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen.
Christa McAuliffe

We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!
Christa McAuliffe

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?
Christa McAuliffe