I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.

When rock came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique.

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did.

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming.

The world is a pile of grunge.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.

This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.

For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.

At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory.

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics.

My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.