Irving Berlin Quotes

After you get what you want you don't want it.
Irving Berlin

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
Irving Berlin

I got lost but look what I found.
Irving Berlin

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
Irving Berlin

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.
Irving Berlin

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
Irving Berlin

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving Berlin

Talent is only the starting point.
Irving Berlin

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Irving Berlin

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
Irving Berlin

There's no business like show business.
Irving Berlin

There's no people like show people.
Irving Berlin

You're not sick you're just in love.
Irving Berlin

Daisy Berkowitz Quotes

But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
Daisy Berkowitz

Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
Daisy Berkowitz

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
Daisy Berkowitz

I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
Daisy Berkowitz

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.
Daisy Berkowitz

I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
Daisy Berkowitz

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.
Daisy Berkowitz

I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.
Daisy Berkowitz

I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.
Daisy Berkowitz

If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
Daisy Berkowitz

It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
Daisy Berkowitz

It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.
Daisy Berkowitz

It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.
Daisy Berkowitz

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
Daisy Berkowitz

Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.
Daisy Berkowitz

Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
Daisy Berkowitz

There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
Daisy Berkowitz

There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.
Daisy Berkowitz

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
Daisy Berkowitz

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
Daisy Berkowitz

Eddy Arnold Quotes

Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
Eddy Arnold

I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
Eddy Arnold

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
Eddy Arnold

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
Eddy Arnold

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
Eddy Arnold

Paddy Ashdown Quotes

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
Paddy Ashdown

I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.
Paddy Ashdown

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
Paddy Ashdown

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
Paddy Ashdown

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
Paddy Ashdown

I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Paddy Ashdown

I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
Paddy Ashdown

I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
Paddy Ashdown

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
Paddy Ashdown

It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
Paddy Ashdown

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
Paddy Ashdown

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
Paddy Ashdown

It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
Paddy Ashdown

Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
Paddy Ashdown

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
Paddy Ashdown

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
Paddy Ashdown

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
Paddy Ashdown

Politics is compromise.
Paddy Ashdown

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
Paddy Ashdown

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
Paddy Ashdown