Quotes for 1/4/2012

• All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education. (Bobby Vinton)
• All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background. (Bobby Vinton)
• As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules. (Bobby Vinton)
• Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger. (Bobby Vinton)
• Everything they say about Elvis today is true. He was just one great guy. He wasn't jealous of anyone. I would say Elvis was really someone special when you add it all up. (Bobby Vinton)
• Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy. (Bobby Vinton)
• I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas. (Bobby Vinton)
• I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days. (Bobby Vinton)
• I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers. (Bobby Vinton)
• I must tell you, to get started today must be very difficult 'cause whatever it takes today is very tough. They have to invest a million dollars in a video just to see if you have a hit record. (Bobby Vinton)
• I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people. (Bobby Vinton)
• I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition. (Bobby Vinton)
• I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores. (Bobby Vinton)
• I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that. (Bobby Vinton)
• I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid. (Bobby Vinton)
• I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults. (Bobby Vinton)
• It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today. (Bobby Vinton)
• Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much. (Bobby Vinton)
• Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer. (Bobby Vinton)
• Sammy Davis, I backed him up. I used to study him every night. I saw how great performers worked and was able to incorporate a little bit from the best. Bobby Vinton (Bobby Vinton)
• Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long. (Bobby Vinton)
• The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music. (Bobby Vinton)
• They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time. (Bobby Vinton)
• Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music. (Bobby Vinton)
• To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it. (Bobby Vinton)
• To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years. (Bobby Vinton)
• Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all. (Bobby Vinton)
• Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight. (Bobby Vinton)
• When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers. (Bobby Vinton)
• Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future. (Wayne Kramer)
• As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs. (Wayne Kramer)
• But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise. (Wayne Kramer)
• Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do. (Wayne Kramer)
• Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything. (Wayne Kramer)
• I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused. (Wayne Kramer)
• I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile. (Wayne Kramer)
• If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work. (Wayne Kramer)
• It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist. (Wayne Kramer)
• We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear our records and I'm not really sure who played what. And we took a bunch of acid together too. (Wayne Kramer)
• When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame. (Wayne Kramer)
• When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos. (Wayne Kramer)
• When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people. (Wayne Kramer)
• You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking. (Wayne Kramer)
• I made a French film called Merry Christmas which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece. (Diane Kruger)
• Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for Lord of the Rings out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good. (Diane Kruger)
• The only song I can sing is Lady in Red so that must tell you how great it must have been. (Diane Kruger)
• A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. (Agatha Christie)
• I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you. (Agatha Christie)
• I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties. (Agatha Christie)
• I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. (Agatha Christie)
• I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you. (Agatha Christie)
• I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that. (Agatha Christie)
• One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. (Agatha Christie)
• The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances. (Agatha Christie)
• A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. (Agatha Christie)
• A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. (Agatha Christie)
• An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her. (Agatha Christie)
• Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody (Agatha Christie)
• After almost nine years as prime minister, Blair has begun losing touch with reality, (Andrei Gromyko)
• Although the assembly of the shots is responsible for the structure of the film, it does not, as is generally assumed, create its rhythm; the distinct time running through the shots makes the rhythm of the picture, and the rhythm is determined not by the length of edited pieces, but by the pressure of the time that runs through them. The pieces that 'won't edit', that can't be properly joined, are those which record a radically different kind of time (Andrey Tarkovsky)
• [The world may end up] under a Sword of Damocles on Andrei Gromyko a tightrope over the abyss. (Andrei Gromyko)
• Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron Andrei Gromyko teeth. (Andrei Gromyko)
• Thank you, Comrade President. (Andrei Gromyko)
• An exchange of ideas occurs when you take an idea to Andrei Gromyko your boss and you come back with his idea. (Andrei Gromyko)
• [The world may end up] under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss. (Andrei Gromyko)
• An exchange of ideas occurs when you take an idea to your boss and you come back with his idea. (Andrei Gromyko)
• Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony. (Andrei Gromyko)
• The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• Everything makes me nervous - except making films. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• I fell off my pink cloud with a thud. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• I have a woman's body and a child's emotions. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• When they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• I think I'm finally growing up - and about time. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• If it is not to make the world better what is money for? (Elizabeth Taylor)
• If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• I'm not worried about dying. I consult with God, my maker. And I don't have a lot of problems to work out. I'm pretty squared anyway. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• It's not the having, it's the getting. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim? (Elizabeth Taylor)
• In my estimation he is the true King of Rock Pop and Soul. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• Marriage is a great institution. (Elizabeth Taylor)
• My body's a real mess. If you look at it in the mirror, it's just completely convex and concave. I've become one of those poor little women who's bent sideways. My X-rays are hysterical. The bone doctors just throw up their hands and say, 'Sorry, there's nothing we can do!' Which is so cheery. (Elizabeth Taylor)

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