Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at "hateful ragtime" no l...
SCOTT JOPLIN Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.
SCOTT JOPLIN When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.
SCOTT JOPLIN I'm one of those regular weird people.
JANIS JOPLIN On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
JANIS JOPLIN Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
JANIS JOPLIN When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point ...
JANIS JOPLIN I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I rea...
JANIS JOPLIN Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessa...
JANIS JOPLIN I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur peop...
JANIS JOPLIN I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambitio...
JANIS JOPLIN Don't compromise yourself, you're all you've got.
JANIS JOPLIN Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
JANIS JOPLIN Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.
JANIS JOPLIN Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can...
JANIS JOPLIN Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with idea...
JANIS JOPLIN You got to get it while you can. . .
JANIS JOPLIN As a matter of fact, as we discovered on the train, tomorrow never happens, man. It's all the same f...
JANIS JOPLIN I'd trade all my tommorows for a single yesterday
JANIS JOPLIN Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
JANIS JOPLIN It's hard to be free but when it works, it' s worth it!
JANIS JOPLIN One of my talking points will be the accident of geography.
JANIS JOPLIN Which showed that my interest in rock was not based in a vast knowledge of their work. It was about ...
JANIS JOPLIN She was electrifying. It was like she was channeling Bessie Smith or something.
JANIS JOPLIN Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
JANIS JOPLIN Freedom's just another word for nothin left to loose. Nothin, don't mean nothin honey if it ain't fr...
JANIS JOPLIN because they're not what you call in the groove.
JANIS JOPLIN Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
JANIS JOPLIN Buried Alive in the Blues.
JANIS JOPLIN Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
JANIS JOPLIN Don't ever compromise yourself. You're all you've got.
JANIS JOPLIN You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
JANIS JOPLIN You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people do...
JANIS JOPLIN What's happening never happens there
JANIS JOPLIN absolute poison.
JANIS JOPLIN Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLIN It's gonna be a long hard drag, but we'll make it
JANIS JOPLIN On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone
JANIS JOPLIN If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the ti...
JANIS JOPLIN nonsense environment.
JANIS JOPLIN I'm one of those regular weird people.
JANIS JOPLIN ...to be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's w...
JANIS JOPLIN Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageou...
JANIS JOPLIN As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.
JANIS JOPLIN I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
JANIS JOPLIN After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [e...
JANIS JOPLIN All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there ...
JANIS JOPLIN She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she ha...
LAURA JOPLIN I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to...
LAURA JOPLIN Anglo-Saxon America dealt with the emotional aspects of life by hiding them, ignoring them, or defin...
LAURA JOPLIN The younger Janis was a painter, a drawer. She was a very serious art student for a number of years....
LAURA JOPLIN [One suspects there's a little projection going on in that passage, for the author does come across ...
LAURA JOPLIN It was especially important that someone who has been subjected to such an incredible amount of inte...
LAURA JOPLIN The biography was a personal quest to understand Janis and to sort what was real from stories that w...
LAURA JOPLIN We need a more productive inside game and to get more shots out of our post players. We have to find...
STAN JOPLIN How is sky the limit?...When it can't be touched
SCOTT If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go -within 10 minutes - to my filing cabinet and...
LUKE SCOTT When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy...
WILLARD SCOTT You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.
SCOTT REED Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work ...
BOBBY SCOTT The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.
SCOTT HAMILTON I've always been fascinated with radio and broadcasting. I did fake radio shows as a kid, where ...
SCOTT AUKERMAN My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving ...
SCOTT EASTWOOD With albums like 'Rodeo,' 'Days Before Rodeo' and 'Owl Pharaoh,' I was reall...
TRAVIS SCOTT You can't buy swag.
TRAVIS SCOTT I know what my identity is.
TRAVIS SCOTT I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.
TRAVIS SCOTT I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, by Missouri City. It's, like, a suburb in th...
TRAVIS SCOTT I was a smart kid. I went to private school in middle school and got kicked out.
TRAVIS SCOTT Me being in Houston, I wanted to leave there because it was only known for one thing. That's why...
TRAVIS SCOTT I feel like everyone just gets constricted by their parents or, just, life.
TRAVIS SCOTT You can't buy being a rock star.
TRAVIS SCOTT Every time I go into the studio, it's some next level, man.
TRAVIS SCOTT I'm not a gangsta.
TRAVIS SCOTT 'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.
TRAVIS SCOTT A nerd can call another nerd a nerd.
TRAVIS SCOTT I feel like everything needs to be stylised; that's always been my mindset.
TRAVIS SCOTT Money is something that keeps you alive and healthy and just keeps you focused. It's the drive. ...
TRAVIS SCOTT I'm La Flame at all times. That, at times, can be bad, at times can be good.
TRAVIS SCOTT My whole story is straight mythical. It's tangible, but it's also what life could be.
TRAVIS SCOTT I'm a magician, like David Blaine. I could never fall.
TRAVIS SCOTT There are people who take fashion at different levels, but personally, I'm just a kid with it.
TRAVIS SCOTT Yes, money is important. But it's all about the creative process.
TRAVIS SCOTT I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.
RANDOLPH SCOTT Frankly, I don't like publicity.
RANDOLPH SCOTT Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And th...
RANDOLPH SCOTT My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of...
RANDOLPH SCOTT I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.
RANDOLPH SCOTT The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he...
WALTER SCOTT He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out o...
WALTER SCOTT A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
WALTER SCOTT Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues he...
WALTER SCOTT Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
WALTER SCOTT Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
WALTER SCOTT When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
WALTER SCOTT Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and ...
WALTER SCOTT Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
WALTER SCOTT Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
WALTER SCOTT To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
WALTER SCOTT What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
WALTER SCOTT A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some kno...
WALTER SCOTT Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
WALTER SCOTT We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTT Look back, and smile on perils past.
WALTER SCOTT What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary wh...
WALTER SCOTT Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.
SCOTT WEILAND I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as...
JILL SCOTT The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power....
RIDLEY SCOTT I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
SCOTT ADAMS You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influe...
SCOTT ADAMS I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and de...
SCOTT ADAMS Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your ...
SCOTT ADAMS You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don...
SCOTT ADAMS I get mail; therefore I am.
SCOTT ADAMS Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams.
SCOTT ADAMS Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of pheno...
SCOTT ADAMS Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ...
SCOTT ADAMS The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with...
SCOTT ADAMS Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequ...
SCOTT ADAMS Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
SCOTT ADAMS There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
SCOTT ADAMS A lot of people want the crown, but they're not willing to bleed for it.
SCOTT HAZE The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
SCOTT TUROW I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
L'WREN SCOTT The McDonald's icon of the colours and the golden arch, for me, resonates as one of the most ico...
JEREMY SCOTT For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I...
ASHLEY SCOTT Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something th...
SCOTT WEILAND I'm probably doing puns more than anything in my life.
SCOTT AUKERMAN I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. ...
L'WREN SCOTT For anyone who feels they are overwhelmed by their job, or maybe they take their job too seriously o...
JILL SCOTT Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.
SCOTT PELLEY I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
L'WREN SCOTT I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.
L'WREN SCOTT I'm a fashion designer. I don't want to be defined as someone's girlfriend.
L'WREN SCOTT If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it, because you'll never look good.
L'WREN SCOTT If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitati...
L'WREN SCOTT One should always try to do the best you possibly can. I'm not in a race to the finish line - I ...
L'WREN SCOTT I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to d...
L'WREN SCOTT The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There's no time to change before we go ...
L'WREN SCOTT I think a girl always needs a cardigan, and I tend to go for the sparkles. I have a minimum of 50 em...
L'WREN SCOTT Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a f...
L'WREN SCOTT Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.
L'WREN SCOTT Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette. I dress for men.
L'WREN SCOTT You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' A...
L'WREN SCOTT I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I...
L'WREN SCOTT It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very str...
L'WREN SCOTT I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for th...
L'WREN SCOTT When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smel...
L'WREN SCOTT Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
L'WREN SCOTT There's lots of things you pull out lipstick for.
L'WREN SCOTT I like a very sexy silhouette, and I like to feel like when you put something on, you zip yourself i...
L'WREN SCOTT When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you liv...
STUART SCOTT Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show...
SCOTT RITTER Leaving the space station was bittersweet - I had been there for a long time and looked forward to l...
SCOTT KELLY My parents are so amazing; they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise abou...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
NAOMI SCOTT I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.
NAOMI SCOTT There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails.
NAOMI SCOTT I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, ...
NAOMI SCOTT No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
NAOMI SCOTT I want to pursue music in the future, but I'm taking it a step at a time and making sure I'm...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they'r...
NAOMI SCOTT I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, ...
NAOMI SCOTT I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, ...
NAOMI SCOTT All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.
NAOMI SCOTT There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.
NAOMI SCOTT Within a few weeks of coming back from filming 'Lemonade Mouth,' I got these scripts, and &#...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a ...
SCOTT ADAMS I just remember Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen, and I thought to myself, 'That's wh...
SCOTT ADKINS People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their c...
ANDREW SCOTT I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible.
RIDLEY SCOTT As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the Whit...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire...
SCOTT WALKER The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the...
SCOTT WALKER We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a repor...
SCOTT PELLEY I must say, I've been in the studio with Jay Z, dog... I thought the freestyle thing was a myth....
TRAVIS SCOTT I look around and see so much fear, people getting more and more comfortable with their hate, more a...
SCOTT STABILE The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of alway...
SCOTT ANDERSON Breathe deeply, as if each breath might be your last. That way, the one time you
SCOTT SORRELL There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thin...
HAZEL SCOTT I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take ...
CAMPBELL SCOTT I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as qui...
CAMPBELL SCOTT What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If on...
CAMPBELL SCOTT Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. Yo...
CAMPBELL SCOTT There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's n...
CAMPBELL SCOTT The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
CAMPBELL SCOTT I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some...
CAMPBELL SCOTT I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them...
CAMPBELL SCOTT I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.
CAMPBELL SCOTT The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what...
CAMPBELL SCOTT I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for th...
CAMPBELL SCOTT The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acti...
CAMPBELL SCOTT Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to w...
CAMPBELL SCOTT Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
CAMPBELL SCOTT Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gr...
CAMPBELL SCOTT I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.
CAMPBELL SCOTT