Quotes About Capitol Records

#1. I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.

Melissa Auf Der Maur

#2. Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole. He just let them sing whatever they wanted, and it became the best record company in America.

Tony Bennett

#3. I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.

Shane Filan

#4. If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

Garth Brooks

#5. Capitol Records were very keen for me to write and see how I got on; I think that is what defined my sound. The first session I had was with two young up-and-coming writers, Nick Atkinson and Tom Wilding, and I went into a session a bit nervous because I hadn't written that many songs before.

Shane Filan

#6. ment Agency, which did such a wonderful job on Hur icane Katrina). Funding for the FEMA investigation was only $600,000 and it appears that

Arthur Naiman

#7. Some people think that as soon as you plant a tree, it must bear fruit. We must allow it to grow a bit.

Tunku Abdul Rahman

#8. Today, 30-year-olds are becoming social entrepreneurs.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#9. Oh my God! What was I going to do? How did I get here? I was just minding my own business and someone lobbed a grenade into my life - in the form of Jack Eversea.

Natasha Boyd

#10. There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed the 1942 Battle of Midway - but have never been able to produce an American victory.

Robert Cowley

#11. Reproductive choice is not some trendy item to toss or keep around the house. If you cannot get an education or a job, if you cannot choose what will or will not happen with your own body, then what freedom do you have?

June Jordan

#12. I have a treasure trove of Baker memories, all of which reinforce my sense of Howard Baker as one of the most decent people with whom I have worked. While I was simply a young staffer, he never treated me or my colleagues as anything else but equals.

John Yarmuth

#13. All through his life, he swung between the ridiculous and the sublime,

Marshall McLuhan

#14. Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot.

Johanna Spyri

#15. Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

Jeff Kinney

#16. I always take no for an answer," I said, definitely. "I just prefer yes. And I really don't go for married women. That's a line I try very hard not to cross. I'm still an outrageous flirt.

Larry Correia

#17. In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

Alexander Pope