Quotes About Entertainment

Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.

I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

I am so happy that every generation still tunes into most of the classic and cult films I was lucky to be a part of.

One thing all the way through the show to me is boring. I don't care how great the artist is. I find that if my audience is very young, and they want to hear very young songs, my show will be dominated by that. But there'll be some ballads here and there and some swing tunes.

I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, 'I don't have anything. I'm not a stand-up. You want me to come sing show tunes for you? I don't think so.'

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough. Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes.

I started out as a pianist and singer in gay and piano bars - they were the only places I could get a job singing show tunes.

I think the best thing about performing as producer is to hear the fans sing along with your tunes.

I will say you could always look at 'Looney Tunes' and learn about writing. I think you can learn a lot about the beats of comedy. I think you can find out about awkward pauses, because I think they did those well.

With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.

I'm a big show queen to begin with. I think in show tunes.

I've jumped off pianos, I stopped climbing up curtains when the screws popped once and I fell to the floor like a Looney Tunes cartoon character, and ended up off for six months because of a broken ankle.

I still maintain that Looney Tunes is the funniest program ever made.

I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff.

I want the whole world to watch me fight. But you know if people are just tuning in to hear me trash talk are not fight fans.

Any time Nate Diaz fights, I'm tuning in, I promise you.

Nobody's tuning in - let's check the TV Guide listings and see what game Joe Buck is calling. Nobody cares. They want to see the Cubs. They want to see the Packers. They want to see the Cowboys. They don't care who's calling the game.

The best lesson I learned from my dad, Jack, is that nobody is tuning in to a game to hear you broadcast. They want to watch the game, so don't get in the way.

Someone has to take the bad role and as long as people are tuning in and watching the sport that I love, I don't mind.

I think Tupac was more someone who was trying to inform us about what was going on, and he did it through entertainment.

You know what Disneyland is known for? The Big Turkey Leg. People walk around with enormous deep-fried turkey legs. Like little kids, three-year-old kids eating these five-pound turkey legs.