Phil Ramone Quotes

#1. Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.

Phil Ramone

#2. If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.

Phil Ramone

#3. The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

Phil Ramone

#4. There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.

Phil Ramone

#5. It's important not to be afraid ego-wise to share your information.

Phil Ramone

#6. Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross ... they are the best.

Giorgio Moroder

#7. One of the things about Scrubs is that it's about great friendships and ... as broad and as serious as we get it's always really about friendship. It's about getting through the challenging parts of your life with the help of your friends.

Zach Braff

#8. I started playing the violin at age 3, and I was very fortunate because there were people who heard me who were influential in getting me auditions. By the time I was 7, I was playing concerts - it was just ridiculous.

Phil Ramone

#9. Don't speak if you don't have to about trivia. The time for joking comes because of the trust, and you have to earn the trust. So, I don't alibi for anything, and I'll take the heat. That's the other thing. Don't let them take the heat. We take the heat.

Phil Ramone

#10. I've never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

Lennart Meri

#11. All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite future is before you.

Swami Vivekananda

#12. I took the pieces you threw away, put them together by night and day. Washed by the rain. Dried by the sun. A million pieces all in one.

Howard Finster

#13. When you get to know an artist, you find out the things that have peeved them over the years, and it's generally the stuff that has to do with somebody not wanting to do things their way in the studio.

Phil Ramone

#14. We cannot enslave others without enslaving a part of ourselves.

Richard Paul Evans

#15. People sleep peacefully in their beds at night, because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

(By George Orwell) Describing your country's servicemen.

Steven Preece

#16. It was sad when Sid Vicious died ... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.

Dee Dee Ramone

#17. You can only mentor somebody if they want to be.

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#18. I gotta think that one that becomes a philosophy of work, which is "no excuses."

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#19. Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could.

Nicholas Sparks

#20. Substance should outweigh perfection ...

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#21. If you follow anything that I've ever done, I never stick to one thing more than one year. I'm just afraid to get typecast.

Phil Ramone