Phil Ramone
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RICK BARRY If you want something, work hard for it, go after it. I can't worry about all the 'no's,... MARA BROCK AKIL KIRK CAMERON GEORGE MICHAEL There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused ... JUDE LAW F. SCOTT FITZGERALD RUPERT MURDOCH From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've lear... ALICIA KEYS LEONARDO DICAPRIO MAC MILLER There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel... HUGO PRATT MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totall... RAEKWON EDDIE VAN HALEN You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I&... T.I. ADAM ANT AKIRA KUROSAWA I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I'v... EVAN PARKER I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because... C. THOMAS HOWELL One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly g... ANDRE DUBUS III You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obliga... YELAWOLF OMARI HARDWICK ROSELYN SANCHEZ I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on differe... JOHN SAXON ANGUS YOUNG BRAD PITT PATRICK WILSON We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an imp... DAVID WEINBERGER I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really... BARBARA BILLINGSLEY I've stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn't trust myself with suc... ELIZABETH REASER EDWARD NORTON We're going to be very strong with employers in all of our aspects, because I think there's ... JAMES P. HOFFA Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but conce... KAILASH KHER I don't in any way disparage any time I've had in the trenches because it really has made me... BILLY PORTER ZOE SALDANA If I feel like I've completely drained every ounce of energy out of me for this song, and I can&... ELLA HENDERSON KEANU REEVES I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to i... LORENE SCAFARIA Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out... ANTON YELCHIN WALTER MOSLEY FERGIE JOEL MADDEN CARROLL SHELBY As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things... CARMEN EJOGO I've always had the idea that multi-millionaire rock stars should work harder than anyone becaus... BUZZ OSBORNE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON JILL SCOTT Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to... JEWEL ROBERT KRAFT TIM HETHERINGTON There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music becaus... DWEEZIL ZAPPA It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like i... D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it... THOMAS KINKADE I did some stupid things when I was younger, but I got a lot out of my system. Every time, my mom wa... ELLE KING We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We&... DAN HAWKINS I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist. LARRY RIVERS Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons... RACHEL PLATTEN Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry... LYDIA LUNCH I've not gotten so much stuff because I improvise in an audition, but I always feel like, if tha... ADAM PALLY I think that if you ask what's made us successful, it's because we've been fortunate eno... DAN LEVITAN As an adult, I've always tried to be a good person my whole life, so I've made good friends,... ROMAN REIGNS DENIS LEARY DAMIEN HIRST ANNE SWEENEY I've built a tree house; because of my architectural training, it's heavily over-designed, w... GREG WISE BEBE REXHA JAMES ARTHUR I try to be careful to not just say it's a greatest hits show because we've also made effort... GERRY BECKLEY KEN LIU I've worked with a lot of first time directors; in fact, I enjoy it because there is a certain b... STEPHANIE ALLAIN I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most ... CARLTON CUSE I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a chea... ADAM PEATY ROBERT REDFORD The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with... JAMES MERCER I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they... RACHEL PLATTEN MIKE SINGLETARY GEORGE MICHAEL I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an ex... DAVID HYDE PIERCE When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to ... SALLY HAWKINS MATT STONE JR I've always been a firm believer in local news, because it's an opportunity to connect with ... DAVID SHUSTER MEGHAN MARKLE KEVIN SYSTROM It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's... RANDY HARRISON I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best peop... AARON ECKHART MICHAEL HIRST JOE PERRY
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The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director. PHIL RAMONE Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate. PHIL RAMONE The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music,... TOMMY RAMONE When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best. JOEY RAMONE Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatur... MELODIE RAMONE Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks... JOHNNY RAMONE Mostly I listen to old-time music, some bluegrass, some Americana stuff, too many to name. But of th... TOMMY RAMONE The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it. JOEY RAMONE I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry. JOHNNY RAMONE The Ramones were not about having a good time. The closest thing probably was maybe Joey and Dee Dee... TOMMY RAMONE I was born in Budapest, Hungary, and moved to the United States in 1956. It was during the Hungarian... TOMMY RAMONE When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, reb... JOEY RAMONE I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, a... JOHNNY RAMONE In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I ... TOMMY RAMONE Groupies are just very enthusiastic fans, that's all. TOMMY RAMONE To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying '... JOEY RAMONE The first record was basically a quick, fast record. The second record, we were going for more of a ... TOMMY RAMONE As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein... JOHNNY RAMONE When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Lim... JOHNNY RAMONE Dee Dee got the name 'The Ramones' from Paul McCartney. McCartney would call himself Paul Ra... TOMMY RAMONE Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood. JOEY RAMONE I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I s... JOHNNY RAMONE Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmoni... TOMMY RAMONE In our position, we've always done well, but we just haven't had that hit yet that put us over the t... JOEY RAMONE We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard, ... Everything was... JOEY RAMONE I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. JOEY RAMONE [Over the years, Florian accumulated quite a collection of rare RAMONES items, including posters, to... MARKY RAMONE That could be the first of many, ... Just because it's in Berlin, it doesn't mean there can't be one... MARKY RAMONE To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions ... JOEY RAMONE Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana o... JOEY RAMONE We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression. JOHNNY RAMONE If a man can judge success by how many great friends he has, then I have been very successful -- Joh... JOHNNY RAMONE As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they... JOHNNY RAMONE I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me... JOHNNY RAMONE I'm just honored that people still like us and people are still nice to me. JOHNNY RAMONE The Ramones are the type of group where it took the world, like, 30 years to catch up with them. Bec... TOMMY RAMONE I like you. You're all right. Actually, I like you better meeting you than if somebody had just give... JOEY RAMONE I once told this writer a story about how I met the guys in an elevator and found out we all had the... JOEY RAMONE All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude. JOEY RAMONE I'm pretty much looking for beauty all the time. It just seems like some days the light is better to... MELODIE RAMONE I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first al... JOHNNY RAMONE Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their... MELODIE RAMONE As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein... JOHNNY RAMONE I learned very early on to try to never let your fans down. It is the fans that have given me a lot ... JOHNNY RAMONE It was a job, and I was just doing my job. JOHNNY RAMONE My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are! JOHNNY RAMONE Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spen... JOHNNY RAMONE The Ramones are an original rock and roll group of 1975, and their songs are brief, to the point, an... TOMMY RAMONE The closest things to an influence would be people like Charlie Watts or Al Jackson. But I didn'... TOMMY RAMONE 'Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that poin... JOHNNY RAMONE We always stayed true to what the Ramones are. JOEY RAMONE There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be. I mean everybody's just emulated us an... JOEY RAMONE The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth. JOEY RAMONE It wasn't just music in the Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was ... TOMMY RAMONE The guy who started the museum in Berlin is a huge RAMONES fan, ... His name is Florian . In fact, e... MARKY RAMONE Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play. JOEY RAMONE Bowie's 'Hunky Dory' influenced me. 'Ziggy Stardust' influenced Johnny Ramone a ... TOMMY RAMONE It was never fun being in the Ramones, which is the saddest thing of all, cause it shoulda been fun.... TOMMY RAMONE It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or ... MELODIE RAMONE That could be the first of many, ... Just because it's in Berlin, it doesn't mean there can't be one... MARKY RAMONE In the naivete of their youth, they believed Fate to be a kind mistress. None of them were prepared ... MELODIE RAMONE I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a ... DEE DEE RAMONE Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it. DEE DEE RAMONE When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, ... DEE DEE RAMONE I used to be a hairdresser. DEE DEE RAMONE I was a big troublemaker in the group. I put them through a lot of pain, but as much as I gave to th... DEE DEE RAMONE I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the ne... DEE DEE RAMONE I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. ... DEE DEE RAMONE PHIL JACKSON PHIL MICKELSON At least in my life, I cannot hold onto grudges. It's a waste of energy, a waste of time. PHIL ANSELMO When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug. PHIL DANIELS PHIL MCGRAW My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don... PHIL ROBERTSON PHIL MCGRAW PHIL COLLINS Successful people breed success. PHIL CROSBY PHIL JACKSON If you simply put your faith in Jesus coming down in flesh, through a human being, God becoming fles... PHIL ROBERTSON PHIL GRAMM At the end of the day, every member of the conservative movement, from our political commentators an... PHIL GINGREY Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong. Sin becomes fine. Start with homosex... PHIL ROBERTSON I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being. PHIL SPECTOR PHIL MCGRAW PHIL DONAHUE PHIL GRAMM La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city. PHIL KEOGHAN We try to stay as open-minded about casting as possible. When you're getting things down on pape... PHIL LORD The border patrol gave us a list of the diseases that they're concerned about, and Ebola was one... PHIL GINGREY The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. PHIL WELTMAN PHIL LESTER PHIL LESTER PHIL HINE PHIL LOUT PHIL GRAMM PHIL PATTON PHIL COLLINS PHIL HELLMUTH PHIL LESTER PHIL JACKSON PHIL KNIGHT In 2012, a hamburger cost Amtrak $16.15, with riders paying $9.50. This means that we, the taxpayers... PHIL GINGREY PHIL DONAHUE PHIL MICKELSON You need pencil miles to be a great artist, animator, or filmmaker, and the sooner you start making ... PHIL LORD We're trying to infuse a little good into the American culture. Love God, love your neighbor, hu... PHIL ROBERTSON PHIL KLAY PHIL DONAHUE PHIL COLLINS PHIL KLAY PHIL KNIGHT PHIL KNIGHT I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all creat... PHIL ROBERTSON PHIL ROE PHIL MCGRAW PHIL MCGRAW PHIL MCGRAW PHIL LESH Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching. PHIL CROSBY PHIL LAMARR PHIL JACKSON PHIL MICKELSON Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because i... PHIL ROBERTSON You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you,... PHIL ANSELMO PHIL MCGRAW PHIL KLAY PHIL KNIGHT PHIL MCGRAW I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear... PHIL HARTMAN PHIL LESTER PHIL LESTER I’m breakingPHIL VOLATILE I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a ... PHIL ANSELMO When Pisces go to war, there’s never a shortage of broken hearts. PHIL VOLATILE PHIL KLAY PHIL KLAY With an extraordinary amount of federal employees authorized to use 100% official time on behalf of ... PHIL GINGREY You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop t... PHIL ANSELMO PHIL LESH I enjoy almost all of the game we kill. I only like to eat game that I have cleaned. I guess duck an... PHIL ROBERTSON I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jet... PHIL ANSELMO PHIL COLLINS PHIL KLAY PHIL DONAHUE PHIL KNIGHT Acting is my passion, and Chelsea FC is my hobby. PHIL DANIELS I am angry - mad - at the Chief Justice, John Roberts. PHIL GINGREY PHIL JACKSON But now that I’m scrubbingPHIL VOLATILE Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of th... PHIL CROSBY PHIL MCGRAW PHIL KLAY PHIL DONAHUE 'Blasto' is a new game for Sony Playstation. It's an awesome three-dimensional game, and... PHIL HARTMAN In my old age, it's kind of funny - at night, what I like to do is watch TV when I go to sleep. ... PHIL EVERLY PHIL JACKSON PHIL KLAY PHIL KLAY As an OB-GYN physician, I understand the importance of protecting Americans from sexually transmitte... PHIL GINGREY I have bitten down or swallowed a few pellets through the years. My uncle had his appendix removed a... PHIL ROBERTSON PHIL JACKSON Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good ... PHIL KEOGHAN PHIL DONAHUE PHIL KNIGHT It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped. PHIL ROBERTSON PHIL KLAY In my game, you get brokenhearted a bit. You do a play, get a bad review in the papers... actors are... PHIL DANIELS We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we did... PHIL ROBERTSON I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I neve... PHIL HARTMAN PHIL DONAHUE We would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other. PHIL ROBERTSON PHIL JACKSON PHIL MCGRAW If I were in politics, and if you ever get me in the White House, trust me, there's a big change... PHIL ROBERTSON PHIL JACKSON PHIL KLAY PHIL KLAY I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea a... PHIL DANIELS PHIL KLAY As the son of a Cuban refugee and cousin and nephew to many Cubans on the island, I cringe when Amer... PHIL LORD PHIL JACKSON PHIL JACKSON PHIL COLLINS I think Pantera is a type of band that has been documented very, very well over the years. With the ... PHIL ANSELMO PHIL MCGRAW PHIL DONAHUE I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild... PHIL ANSELMO PHIL KLAY PHIL KLAY I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and th... PHIL ROBERTSON PHIL MCGRAW PHIL JACKSON PHIL COLLINS I was proud to represent the 11th District of Georgia as a member of Congress for the past 12 years ... PHIL GINGREY Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically... PHIL CROSBY Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanki... PHIL ROBERTSON Spending on largely ineffective programs - although well intentioned - is a detriment to fostering r... PHIL GINGREY When the economy is difficult, people care a great deal about the things they spend their money on. ... 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I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time... 
It's not for me to determine what a country artist has in common with a hip-hop artist. You go f... 
People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, '... 
A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to kn... 
I've gotten to wear such beautiful clothes and had such a variety and it's just been so nice... 
For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppab... 
It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality ... 
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not a... 
It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way. 
I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some ... 
It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. T... 
I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able... 
There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't fe... 
I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here... 
Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be sat... 
What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our w... 
I've been blessed because every single role I've done has been an educated person. I've ... 
I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact... 
Listen, I've been pretty fortunate. And if I've been underrated, it's actually been some... 
I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to ... 
Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nomi... 
If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more imp... 
You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've be... 
There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody ... 
It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completel... 
Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a vi... 
I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn'... 
I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference ... 
If I've had any modicum of success, it's because I've had good relationships, and people... 
The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outrag... 
The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny ... 
I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit o... 
If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a... 
It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've wri... 
There are many things people don't know about me, and maybe when they read about those things, t... 
There's this long history of colonialism and the colonial gaze when applied to matters related t... 
All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if... 
Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they wer... 
I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them. 
We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to los... 
If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an... 
I love the opportunity to get properly dressed up. I've worn three Lanvin dresses, and they'... 
If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn... 
The American obsession with 'Downton' amuses me slightly because it's such a fiction. I&... 
For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time a... 
I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about... 
The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win. 
If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all ... 
Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they c... 
I prefer black music in general. 
There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't... 
I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock. 
Quite frankly, I think nothing could do more to immediately bolster national security then enabling ... 
I've been embarrassing myself since about birth. 
If you're insulting people on the internet, you must be ugly on the inside. 
The system loves resistance. Resistance is often creative and it feeds on creativity until the subve... 
I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ... 
An accent mark, perhaps, instead of a whole western accent -- a point of punctuation rather than a u... 
The world is in your hands, now use it. 
If luck weren't involved, I'd win every tournament! 
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in ... 
Play by the rules, but be ferocious. 
Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas. 
My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million... 
You're not supposed to risk your life just for the physical safety of American citizens - you... 
Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military. 
We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a ... 
When I worked in a medical practice, our practice provided the insurance. When I retired the next da... 
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of dist... 
Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a pla... 
In video games and animation, you find that the toughest things to make different are the things tha... 
I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life. 
Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who've had a limin... 
In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving than... 
I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother. 
Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together. 
I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit. 