Long Quotes

I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them.

I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.

Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.

I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

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.

I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.

Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.

I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.

I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.

Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog.

As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.

South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.

I just blow-dry my hair and put on mascara and lip gloss, and I'm ready to go. I really don't get long nails. They're so Edward Scissorhands.

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.

Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.