E. A. Davis Quotes

You look for stars. You look for the makeup of artists who can have long lasting careers and who could be headliners.

This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.

It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin.

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.

Following the script is one thing, but the unique way in which you deliver your lines is what makes them your own.

The question is, do you want to play Russian roulette with your brain?

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.

The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be "This is the cat's cat."

Robert Whitmore died of apoplexy when a stranger from Georgia mistook him for a former Macon waiter.

The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Do not determine to change your life eventually. If you have decided to change your life, it is already changing.

I feel like I'm one of the happiest people I know.

It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

A lot of people talk about the trail healing them, but I feel like, the first time, it humbled me, which I probably needed. It was a completely new way to experience the world and my body.

I was surrounded by life and beauty. My soul was content, and my life felt full.

Hey, I'm Jeremy, and I play the baahhhssss.

I have the best job in the world with the best fans in the world

There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit.

My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.

Jon: Our only thought is to entertain you! Garfield: Feed me.

Great chefs know it's the appearance of food that counts...but great eaters know its the amount of food that counts

Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect.

Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.

I'm a human being and every human being has problems.

It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.

I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.

My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.

For me, no matter how serious the subject is, when I try to write about it, I have to write about it from a comic point of view. It's just the way it comes out.

I think fashion can have a very negative impact on young people who feel they have to be thin. I am not part of that trend. There is so much pressure on teenage girls.

I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.

First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.

I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.

It's a hard thing to explain to other people because it sounds very superficial and nepotistic, but doing the interview is actually a very deep, dream-fulfilling aspect of relationship.

I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.

I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans.

One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom.

Being an Image Activist simply means to be in action of supporting, celebrating and creating honest images of a group you care about, or yourself.

If it works, don't fix it; do more of it.

If you're going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.

You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.

When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a pattern. You play the pattern by being consistent.

Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.

I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that.

They [police] do me like that all the time! "What you work for?".

When we edit the music, I always remember, "It's my band. Save me a place to play."