By : Alvar Aalto 0 Likes
Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
By : Bobby McFerrin
You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
By : Franklin P. Jones
I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.
By : June Carter Cash
It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
By : E. T. A. Hoffmann
Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.
By : Muddy Waters
I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.
By : Bruce Greenwood
I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
By : Gertrude Stein
Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.
By : Kazuo Ishiguro