The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.
The first musical sound I ever heard was from a banjo. My father played, and I was an infant in a crib, and something just stayed with me from those early days.
If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.
Malpractice tort reform can be something as commonsensical as the establishment of medical courts - similar to bankruptcy or admiralty courts - with special judges to make determinations in cases brought by parties claiming injury.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn't be afraid to be bold.
The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!
Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.
We've grown up on the Beach Boys and the Beatles and Blur and Bowie and the Clash. Also E.L.O. and Hall and Oates. Those are all artists who write songs that are accessible but still left of center. It's intelligent pop. There's still something different and complex about it.
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.
