Great Quotes

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

Put out great music, and that's that.

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.

I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.

I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and touring, but it's hard to argue with 10 good years.

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business.

I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

I think it was a great moment for America to have two ladies on the podium.

I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.