Sonny Bono Quotes

No matter how revolutionary something is, if you keep doing it over and over and over then it does loses it's excitement and it's high dynamics and people get used to ... get used to it like anything else you know um and then it just becomes a normal deal and then it becomes not very interesting at all.

People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

It was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like an earthquake or a fire or an accident.

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.

Almost no one sings like Elvis Presley any more.

Put your ego aside and play as a team.

Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.

With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.

We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism.

People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

You've got to give someone like Cher a lot of credit. She's worked very hard to get where she is. I can't take that away from her.