Dave Barry Quotes

The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

I think 'American Pie' is great.

I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top 40.'

Music is just a huge part of my life. It affects moods. I've always found it insane how you can hear one song, and it takes you back to a specific, specific moment in your life, and you remember it vividly like it was yesterday.

Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life, and it really is like you're still there.

It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.

I thought we were gonna get "Smooth Operator." That song was big in the '90s.

Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.

Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.

But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

When I listen to Airplanes record, it takes me back. I remember a lot of my thought processes when I was 20 or 21, writing those songs and recording that record. I wonder what I was thinking when I was trying to say a particular thing. I hear some of the weird little nuances in the recording; I can hear what the room sounded like. I remember what it smelled like. I can remember sitting up in guitarist Chris Walla's bedroom and for the first time in my life having this realization like, "Maybe I can do this. Maybe I can make music that in some capacity people will enjoy and come see me play."

John [Travolta] and I have remained very close friends ever since we did Grease. When I was told that "You're the One That I Want" was named the #1 duet in history and, during a text chat with John letting him know he said "we should record a Christmas song." Of course I said yes.

It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.

When "Here Comes the Sun" started, what happened? No, the sun didn't come out, but Mom opened up like the sun breaking through the clouds. You know how in the first few notes of that song, there's something about George's guitar that's just so hopeful? It was like when Mom sang, she was full of hope, too. She even got the irregular clapping right during the guitar solo. When the song was over, she paused. "Oh Bee," she said. "This song reminds me of you." She had tears in her eyes.

A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.

My favorite songs are my favorite songs because they just feel like a certain moment, or a certain photo, just a snapshot for whatever three or four minutes the song is.

Take me home tonight, listen honey, just like Ronnie sang, be my little baby.

It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

I was in the back of the car with my girlfriend, the Rascals came on the radio and I realized their song was sexier than the sex I was trying to have.

Music revives the recollections it would appease.

You're like the lyrics to my favorite song. You stick with me all day long. And when I reach the end I wanna hear it again.

Chimes?" Phyllis asked. "Chimes to call a lover? Chimes with the voice of a bird trapped in them? Chimes that play you whatever song you most desire to hear?" "No thanks," said Nick. "We've got MTV.

Homicide is 0.8% of deaths. Diet-related disease is over 60%. But no one talks about it.