Every band wants to be have a song that is that big, that will pretty much live on forever. I don't know too many new bands that will have a 'Free Bird' that will be around 30 years later. It's become a national anthem of sorts.
Rickey Medlocke
Related I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have a... TREVOR RABIN 'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't be... TOM PETTY It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that.... CHLOE SEVIGNY My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be, five or ten years, there will be only ... ERIC FELLNER The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le... GARY F EVANS... I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I know I will be breaking a taboo. But I'm sure that it will provoke a new discussion. It's ... BRIGITTE NIELSEN I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that ... ED SHEERAN I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of re... MAC DEMARCO Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it... EARL CAMPBELL The road will be one long, I'm sure at that. So far the real friends are few, but few more challange... DEYTH BANGER I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United S... ELON MUSK I'm sure there will come a time when I won't be able to, you know, walk around so easy somet... FRANK DILLANE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. I... JOE ELLIOTT I'm always happy to be a part of history. When you're a part of history, you live forever. &... DARLENE LOVE Becoming a vampire is forever. You don't get to change your mind about it later. For me, I think... STEPHENIE MEYER I don't know that I believe that God is in control of everything that happens. As a Jew, I belie... DAVID GREGORY Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: '... DAVID CASSIDY I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in s... ALFRE WOODARD I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been beca... BILLY ECKSTINE A little-known secret is that being a pro athlete is not that great. It's a pretty short lifespa... TIMOTHY OLYPHANT I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like ... ANTHONY HOPKINS The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. I... MIKE GORDON The way I see it: Why get out of bed when you can read about people who got out of bed? -ERIC FOREMAN THAT 70'S SHOW It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will... DAVID SEDARIS I'm basically different things to different people. If it's a guy, I'm-a probably have m... THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno... ARIEL PINK Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do. JERRY CANTRELL It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that ... STEVE WOZNIAK When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big r... T-PAIN You know, with bands like Kiss back out on the road and Aerosmith coming out, we are going to be a b... STEVE BROWN My journey is about believing that people will actually stick around. It's a hard thing to belie... JAKE WEBER She is always going to be Diana Ross; she doesn't have to put out another album to keep at it. I... GLOZELL I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element... BAT FOR LASHES I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will b... ZEDD Every actor I know pretty much wants to be a rock n' roll star, and we'd all give it up to b... DAVID COSTABILE People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole communit... GEOFFREY CANADA It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON To be in a position where an organization like the Bulls creates a bust of you that will permanently... SCOTTIE PIPPEN I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES We will go on tour, that will be a boost for me. After that I can focus on LaToya. If I didn't h... LATOYA LONDON I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to sta... BRUCE STERLING If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a prob... EMIL ZATOPEK Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I wou... JIM VALVANO I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mum... ANTHONY JOSHUA Anything that's for free, people will take. They don't discriminate. LARRY DAVID I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jum... LARRY MULLEN, JR. I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that he... JAY KAY I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned... CARRIE ANN INABA When you're asked to have a CT scan or a nuclear scan, do you know how much radiation that invol... ERIC TOPOL Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but th... GARY ACKERMAN Very rarely am I attracted to characters that are 'woe is me.' I'm not a big fan of wome... MILA KUNIS Maybe it'll be like 'The Simpsons,' and everybody will remain unchanged. Maybe that'... CORY MONTEITH I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later. SAMMY HAGAR One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a pl... CHARLOTTE RAMPLING People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don't get it too much, but I'll... CHAD SMITH Every mistake that you make, or every thing that you might regret, you don't need to necessarily... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I don't have any fear of turning 30. But maybe that's because I know I'm never going to ... ALFIE ALLEN I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straigh... ADAM RAPP You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I ... ESPERANZA SPALDING Soderbergh is a very respectable director that manages to have an incredible amount of freedom in a ... VINCENT CASSEL Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don... GREG GRAFFIN Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area... BILL GATES My first love, I'll never forget, and it's such a big part of who I am, and in so many ways,... RASHIDA JONES Yeah, I just don't break. I don't. And there's only one person I know who's a better... OSCAR NUNEZ It could be that people just want to be connected to something that's bigger than they are that ... DWIGHT SCHULTZ We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will. JENNIFER GRANHOLM I don't ever want to become Bill Maher where I have to find some strong opinion on something jus... DOUG STANHOPE It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't gross... CHLOE SEVIGNY When Josh and I are recording a record, we're very mindful of how the music will manifest itself... TYLER JOSEPH It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I ... CARRIE UNDERWOOD I'm embarrassed to say that I don't have a lot of hobbies. It's not because I don't ... MIKE COLTER I'm not drawn to actresses, but I have no rules about that. I just want to be around positive pe... TRAVIS FIMMEL Acting is fascinating to me. I love unlocking the mysteries with characters and finding out what wou... AMANDA SCHULL I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. S... JULIAN CASABLANCAS I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I w... DAVID DOBKIN There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might... CHRIS YOUNG I love kids. But that's such a big commitment. And it seems long-term. It seems like a commitmen... ELLEN DEGENERES We all die, it's a fact that today you aren't here, yesterday you weren't here doesn't mean that tom... DEYTH BANGER Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be inv... JENNIFER ANISTON Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a ce... CLINT EASTWOOD People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... I have to feel myself doing what's right. If I'm the arbiter of that instead of letting the ... TIM COOK People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is d... LOIS LOWRY You have to talk about 'The Terminator' if you're talking about artificial intelligence.... GRAY SCOTT When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ... CRAIG GROESCHEL Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don'... PRINCE It's not that I don't want to be famous. It's just that I don't feel like the burden... BILLY CRUDUP The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're... DAVE GROHL I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they... JOHN LYDON In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind ... JAMES BLUNT
More Rickey Medlocke
Blackfoot was one of the ultimate live bands... there was no pretense, no gimmickry; it was sound, l... RICKEY MEDLOCKE It's exciting and refreshing to listen to new rock. And I like a lot of it - Filter, Vertical Ho... RICKEY MEDLOCKE Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write... RICKEY MEDLOCKE Politics are the same old thing. We elect people, we put them in office, and guess what they do? The... RICKEY MEDLOCKE You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally ori... RICKEY MEDLOCKE The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name. RICKEY HENDERSON It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind. BRANCH RICKEY Rickey got a big ranch. Rickey got a big bull. Rickey got horses. Rickey got chickens and everything... RICKEY HENDERSON A full mind is an empty bat. BRANCH RICKEY Luck is the residue of design. BRANCH RICKEY Somehow, I've been blessed to be able to have the young spirit inside - not feel like every year... RICKEY HENDERSON If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest... BRANCH RICKEY People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate. RICKEY HENDERSON If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game. RICKEY HENDERSON How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer. BRANCH RICKEY A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance. BRANCH RICKEY Even the slowest guy can go from first to third and help win a ballgame. RICKEY HENDERSON To me the most important thing was stirring things up and scoring some runs so we could win a ballga... RICKEY HENDERSON I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game. RICKEY HENDERSON Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must. BRANCH RICKEY I don't care who you are, you hear those boos. BRANCH RICKEY Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil. BRANCH RICKEY The applause belongs to the teams. They are the ones who provided the fans an experience on such an ... BRANCH RICKEY I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over base... BRANCH RICKEY Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that ... BRANCH RICKEY After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher a... BRANCH RICKEY Problems are the price you pay for progress. BRANCH RICKEY Let's not get panicky. BRANCH RICKEY You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth. BRANCH RICKEY I know you're a good ballplayer, BRANCH RICKEY hey i'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a state of mind i could call mine, that onl... BRANCH RICKEY Baseball is a game of inches. BRANCH RICKEY You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close aroun... RICKEY HENDERSON Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. ... RICKEY HENDERSON Our pitching staff is a conspiracy of ifs. BRANCH RICKEY Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain... BRANCH RICKEY Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within th... BRANCH RICKEY I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very e... RICKEY HENDERSON I don't know who sighed more after she hit that first 3, me or her, but that's been a long time comi... RICKEY SMITH Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. BRANCH RICKEY Seagraves, Waller, and Moore were their go-to players and we felt like if we could take one of them ... RICKEY EVERETT Hallelujah. I want to thank everybody that had a part in getting this declaration. I never dreamed i... RICKEY GRAVES I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow... BRANCH RICKEY It was all I lived for, to play baseball. BRANCH RICKEY The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race. BRANCH RICKEY I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability. BRANCH RICKEY All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded ... BRANCH RICKEY Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late. BRANCH RICKEY I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and str... BRANCH RICKEY Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself... BRANCH RICKEY I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do. BRANCH RICKEY All I had was natural ability. BRANCH RICKEY I like playing for Oakland, they have a very colorful uniform. RICKEY HENDERSON My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playin... RICKEY HENDERSON Certainly I'd consider that,'' Beane told The Chronicle. RICKEY HENDERSON If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game. RICKEY HENDERSON I like playing for Oakland, they have a very colorful uniform RICKEY HENDERSON It's a great atmosphere for ballplayers. The league, to me, is taking care of the young players the ... RICKEY HENDERSON It's just baseball. You always expect every team to go through this at one time or another. RICKEY HENDERSON One-eighty-seven. Yeah, I can still run. I haven't gotten the opportunity to continue. But, I love t... RICKEY HENDERSON I think (Texas) is the best all around team we have played. We have seen some good teams in the four... RICKEY BUSTLE It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life. BRANCH RICKEY Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was... BRANCH RICKEY If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in ... BRANCH RICKEY Never surrender opportunity for security. BRANCH RICKEY A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide. BRANCH RICKEY I think the fans will adapt pretty quickly. This is a better brand of football, and it's better comp... RICKEY FOGGIE If I hadn't gotten on base and Molitor singled, Carter wouldn't have gotten the pitch he got to hit ... RICKEY HENDERSON We're expanding our total available markets dramatically and we're now able to offer customers at th... DAVE RICKEY New order activity has remained weak throughout the quarter and our overall backlog has declined. Th... DAVE RICKEY Current business conditions continue to be very poor. DAVE RICKEY I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first. RICKEY HENDERSON Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, d... RICKEY HENDERSON The truth has to work, all the time, everytime, for everyone, no matter what... Or else... It wouldn... RICKEY LEE MCKIM