Rca Quotes

#1. Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz, isn't this great,' and have everyone's head cocked like the RCA dog.

Mary Karr

#2. We're giving RCA another record, and that should finish them.

Paul Kantner

#3. I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got put on RCA or whatever, then there were new people there, and every six months it changes and more new people come in.

Avril Lavigne

#4. I was signed to RCA to be a country singer.

Ronnie Milsap

#5. I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners.

Frankie Avalon

#6. You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.

Waylon Jennings

#7. There was a bidding war between Epic Records and Jive - now RCA - which was bittersweet. Just having labels bid over me was really cool, but I ended up going with Jive because it felt better over there, and they have my favorite artists like Usher, Chris Brown, and Justin Timberlake.

Jacob Latimore

#8. In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

Charley Pride

#9. Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.

Peter Tork

#10. My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.

Joan Ganz Cooney

#11. I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

Bonnie Tyler

#12. My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour for RCA. Then she made the mistake of marrying me. The next year, another tour, but the third year, she had Mario and said, 'Either I'm a mother or a singer.'

Sirio Maccioni

#13. Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth. [Message tapped out by Sarnoff using a telegraph key in a tabletop circuit demonstrating an RCA atomic battery as a power source.]

David Sarnoff

#14. I was considered one of RCA's brightest young people. Then one day, I found out we'd been sold. They didn't even consult me.

Michael Heisley

#15. My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars.

Jimmy Buffett

#16. I was writing for a publishing company in this old building right next to the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville. We were on the top floor, and Combine Music was on the bottom floor. I was friends with all those guys.

Donnie Fritts

#17. I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Stephen Fry

#18. I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars' worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars' worth of expenses.

Carly Fiorina

#19. Live is meaningful only if you gave it a meaning.

T. Harv Eker

#20. All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.

Helene Deutsch

#21. In 1997 I began working as an assistant professor at Caltech, and I realized that I didn't really know what I was doing.

Mike Brown

#22. I've always said that movies are kind of like love affairs. Two people come together, and if they're at the right place at the right time and it's the right situation, it clicks. I've always felt that I've connected with screenplays. It's the romantic in me.

Robert Zemeckis

#23. In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

John Sweeney

#24. We must realize that the world cannot see and hear the truth neither are they therein sanctified, the world is on its own.

Auliq Ice

#25. History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

Christian Lous Lange

#26. You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

Richard Rohr

#27. The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

V.S. Pritchett