70s Quotes - page 3

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s. (Rita Coolidge)

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

Rita Coolidge

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.

Robert Morgan

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

Robert Morgan

When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.

Steve Case

It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?

Steve Hackett

In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I grew up in the early '70s in New England.

Thurston Moore

After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?

Tom Araya

Happy Days was about a family... although the show was shot in the 70s, it was about a family in the 50s. I realized that kids were watching their parents grow up and the parents were watching themselves grow up. That was the key to the success of our show.

Tom Bosley

Once a thing's been done it's been done, so while this nostalgia - I mean for the '60s and '70s, you know, looking backwards for inspiration, copying the past - how's that rock 'n' roll? Do something of your own. Start something new, you know? Live your lives now. Know what I mean? (John Lennon)

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

Alicia Keys

Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.

Alicia Keys

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

Kim Campbell

I based my career from the very beginning on people like Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Margaret Rutherford. I keep thinking Maggie and Judi are going to eventually not want those parts and I'm going to move up and take them (laughter). So, hopefully, I'll be working in my 70s and 80s. You know, character actresses. I never had looks to lose. I could keep going-Meryl Streep and me.

Tracey Ullman

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

Alanis Morissette

Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.

Vivienne Westwood

Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.

Leonard Nimoy

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

Sol LeWitt

I hear you jeering. Pfui. Those of you who know my work only from A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE may not be aware that I was once considered the most romantic science fiction writer of the 70s, back when I was doing my Thousand Worlds stuff.

George R. R. Martin

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s. (Carly Simon)

I had different views in the '70s. As a human being, I've learned... I have more culture now. I was dumb as a rock when I wrote 'Okie from Muskogee'. That's being honest with you at the moment, and a lot of things that I said ... I sing with a different intention now. My views on marijuana have totally changed. I think we were brainwashed and I think anybody that doesn't know that needs to get up and read and look around, get their own information. It's a cooperative government project to make us think marijuana should be outlawed.

Merle Haggard

[My husband Emilio] found the last remaining virgin in the '70s -- and that was me.

Gloria Estefan

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

Lou Reed

We were clear that we had to be internationally competitive and were passionate about building competencies that were the best in the world even when the tariffs were very high. It was an obsession with me to beat the Taiwanese and the Koreans who dominated the polyester business in the '70s.

Mukesh Ambani

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