Quotes From Heavy Metal Artists

Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden): "If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off."

Lars Ulrich (Metallica): "Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth."

Dave Mustaine (Megadeth): "Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard."

Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead): "That was a great time, the summer of `71. I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it."

Rob Halford (Judas Priest): "There's two kinds of music: heavy metal and all the crap they play on radio and show on MTV"




James Hetfield (Metallica): "I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction."

Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath): "All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music."

Lita Ford (The Runaways): "I'm happy when I'm doing what I do best."

Ronnie James Dio (Black Sabbath & Dio): "Music, rock'n'roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everybody I know has their own generation."

Serj Tankian (System Of A Down): "Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can."

Scott Ian (Anthrax): " Why would heavy metal ever go away?"

More Quotes About The Beatles

Brian Wilson: "There's no outdoing The Beatles."

Noel Gallagher: "If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison."

Barry Gibb: "We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question."

Taylor Momsen: "The Beatles did everything first, and they did it the best."

Brian May: "I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis."

Dave Grohl: "From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time."

Billy Preston: "The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?"

Alex Van Halen: "The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen."

Gene Simmons: "The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band."

Jerry Seinfeld: "The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you're into The Beatles, you loved them from beginning to end"

Annie Lennox Quotes

"The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question."

"There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't."

"Whatever you do, you do out of passion."

"Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them."

"I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance."

"If people like your music you can't guarantee they're going to love you."



"I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want."

"The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in."

"When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you."

"A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues."

"I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free."

Sinead O'Connor Quotes

"Nobody gets between me and my microphone."

"The music business is corrupt. It's full of nothing but vampires and pimps."

"I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars."

"When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit."

"You cannot be a poppy in a tsunami. The more delicate and fragile you are, the tougher you have to act."




"I'm not a musical snob. 'Ooo Baby Baby' or whatever - those are as valid as 'Working Class Hero' or 'Imagine'. But there are times artists do need to stand up and not just be entertainers."

"I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It's just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker."

"The power of rock'n'roll to change things, to move people, is being murdered by all this worship of fame - Pop Idol, X-Factor, all this stuff."

"As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor."

Dolly Parton Quotes

"I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again."

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."



"It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen."

"I look just the the girls next door...if you happen to live next door to an amusement park."

"I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker."

"After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her."

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb...and I also know that I'm not blonde."

"I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out."

"There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig."

"I'm just a simple country girl."

Great Quotes About Life

George Harrison: "If you don't know where you're going then any road will take you there."

Frank Zappa: "The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life."

Stevie Wonder: "You can't base your life on other people's expectations."

George Michael: "You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart."

Cyndi Lauper: "On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors."

Paul McCartney: "Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing."



Bob Dylan: "A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

Diana Ross: "I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time."

Joan Jett: "Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything."

Tina Turner: "I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life."

John Lennon: "When I was five years old my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."

Billy Joel: "If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time."

Amy Winehouse Quotes

"I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier."

"There's no point in saying anything but the truth."

"Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen."

"I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do."

"If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had."

"I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl."

"I'm a positive, happy person, generally. The songs I've written are about some bad times in my life. I needed to make something good out of something bad."

"You discover music the most when it's music that no one tells you to listen to, that you find out for yourself."

"I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends."

Great Quotes About Love

Bob Marley: "The most beautiful curve on a woman's body is her smile."

Aretha Franklin: "Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off."

Pat Benetar: "Love is very complicated. It is so complicated and it's so worth it."

Carlos Santana: "There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save."

Jim Morrison: "That's what real love amounts to; letting a person be what he really is."




Sting: "There's no secret to a successful marriage. I love my wife. More important than that, I really like her."

Ice T: "Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place."

Madonna: "To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt."

Stevie Wonder: "Among all the wonderful things we have, we don't seem to have a time to love. And to me that's the fuel, that's the fuel we need to make the engine go."

John Lennon: "It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love
."

Johnny Cash Quotes

"Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the fights."

"The best way to say anything is just to say it."

"When God forgave me, I figured I'd better too."

"It's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people."

"I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television."

"I read novels but I also read the Bible. And Study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get."

"There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at."

"Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives."

"If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all."

"Children, all your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate...I choose love."

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone."

Trent Reznor Quotes

"I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am."

"I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay."

"Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look."

"I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs."

"Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes."

"I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work."

"When I was five, I got forced into taking piano lessons. And it came really naturally to me. Knowing that I was good at something played an important role in my confidence."

"I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be."

"My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there."

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say."

"I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't think music should be free."

Iggy Pop Quotes

"Try to find some ground that hasn't been covered."

"Almost all cool-ass rock front guys are incredibly huge assholes. It would be nice to meet one who wasn't."

"I can't do it all myself. I'm not that kind of artist, I'm the kind of artist who works off other people best."

"Onstage, I've been hit by grapefruit, beer cans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, mandies, Quaaludes, joints, panties, and a fist."

"I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet."

"I don't know Johnny Rotten, but I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did."

"I'm really not good with the pickups. I'm a klutz and don't have a line of gab. I'm only good if they know who I am."

"Before they shot Kennedy, I wanted to be president."

"I have no direction in life whatsoever other than to try and live, be sensible and enjoy myself."

"Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive."

Elvis Costello Quotes

"I can't actually play any instrument properly. I can't read music."

"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."

"I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies."

"The only two things that motivate me and that matter to me are revenge and guilt."

"It was difficult to develop an original style. I have no idea who it was I might have been imitating. Whether consciously or unconsciously."

"I don't know much about Morrissey. Apart from the fact he sometimes brings out records with the greatest titles in the world that somewhere along the line he neglects to write songs for."

"I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years.And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you."

"There is something kind of absurd about people who live in such a comfortable, cushioned, spoiled society tattooing themselves and piercing themselves to make them appear tribal. We're trying to act like we're some sort of tribe that's been discovered in the mall."

"You can always say it could be better, but if you're not careful with ambition, the next thing you know you're sailing a statue of yourself down the river."

"I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music."

The Clash Quotes

Mick Jones: "The chemistry of the four of us is so unique. But also each person is the sum of their experiences when they play music."

Paul Simonon: "We weren't a political party, it was all about personal politics."

Nicky Headon: "I was watching The Who on Top Of The Pops, it was My Generation they were doing and I just thought...I want to be Keith Moon."

Joe Strummer: "Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot."

Mick Jones: "Rock 'n' roll means so much more to people, it enriches the culture."



Paul Simonon: "I didn't want the role of being Entwhistle or Bill Wyman, stuck in the background. That's too depressing and if that was what I'd been offered with The Clash I would've turned it down."

Mick Jones: "This is an important fact: people prefer to dance than to fight wars."

Paul Simonon: "London Calling was good for me personally as it was a moment of learning how to play the bloody instrument and writing a song."

Joe Strummer: "Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough."

Nicky Headon: "It was the chemistry between the four of us. But none of us really knew what made The Clash work."

Mick Jones: "It's nice when people are still interested in what you've done. Maybe they'll be interested in what you're doing now as well."

Joe Strummer: "I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people."

Great Quotes From Grunge Rock Artists

Kurt Cobain: "Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want."

Eddie Vedder: "The best songs are the ones that make you feel something."

Courtney Love: "I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming."

Jerry Cantrell: "That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate with people that inspired you to make music."

Layne Staley: "Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy tale life, they lead to suffering."

Chris Cornell: "At the end of the day it's the fans who make you who you are."

Krist Novoselic: "Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it."

Dave Grohl: "I looked at Krist and Kurt as soul mates. The two had such a beautiful, unspoken understanding of each other."

Melissa Auf Der Maur: "I never grew up thinking I could make a living playing music, you know?"

Brit Pop Quotes

Gaz Coombes (Supergrass): "The Brit pop scene was overrated with a lot of mediocre bands making average music."

Jarvis Cocker (Pulp): "For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it."

Thom Yorke (Radiohead): "I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape."

Liam Gallagher (Oasis): "I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night."

Damon Albarn (Blur): "Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world."

Justine Frischmann (Elastica): "I just thought it was better to be Pete Best than Linda McCartney."

Brett Anderson (Suede): "I've had fights and feuds but you realise that there's no point throwing that all away. You look back and value the good stuff."

Saffron (Republica): "I don't get it when people say 'just a pop band'. I think being a brilliant pop band is the highest thing you can aspire to."

Noel Gallagher (Oasis): "Rock 'n' Roll is about music, music, music, music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes."

Richard Ashcroft (The Verve): "What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music?"

Richey Edwards (Manic Street Preachers): "I think if there's one person in the audience every night or one person that buys the album that understands us, that's enough for us."

Yoko Ono Quotes

"Every drop in the ocean counts."

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."

"What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect."



"I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it"

"I go to the park on Sundays, and I see men pushing babies. And it's beautiful. They don't know that John was the first one to do that. The very first one. No man would be caught doing that before John."

"If John was still alive we would have retired to Cornwall. He said we would be sitting in rocking chairs together, waiting for a postcard to come from Sean."

"Paul, musically, is extremely knowledgeable as well. He's just a quick to write songs. He's just different, that's all."

"No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles."

"Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that."

"Art is my life and my life is art."

"At least I had that, one guy understood me."

Michael Stipe Quotes

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did, and didn't, in the 1960's.

I wouldn't survive ten minutes on American Idol.

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

Radiohead are so good they scare me.



New York can do that to you. You come here to change the world but you end up changing yourself.

I grew up in an era where the Banana Splits, the Archies and the Monkees  were the music that I listened to. The Beatles were the music that was playing in the background.

We made mistakes, but they were ours, and that kind of pride of ownership, whether it`s the really good stuff or the bad and embarrassing stuff, is a really good feeling.

Lately I`ve been listening to Q-tip almost non-stop. And Bjork, and Thom Yorke from Radiohead, Natalie Merchant, Grant-Lee Phillips and Courtney Love and Bono. A lot of those people are people that I know and have friendships with. And when they do something great it really challenges me to kind of one-up them.

If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well.

Beastie Boys Quotes

Michael "Mike D" Diamond:  "Beastie Boys was the stupidest thing we could come up with at the time."

Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz: "I feel like we are honest. I fell like we are brave men."

Adam "MCA" Yauch: "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

Michael Diamond: "Until we one day, hopefully, have a government that actually serves the people and listens to the people's interests as opposed to business's interest, yeah, it's going to require constant vigilance on the part of the people."

Adam  Horovitz: "When you think about it, hardcore and hip-hop aren't really that different. The attitude is the same, it's a New York attitude."

Adam Yauch: "I think every person has the ability to affect change...through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people. We are constantly affecting the world."

Michael Diamond: "Yauch was a gifted MC. It was his flow on things, rather than specific lyrics, that first blew Adam and I away."

Adam Horovitz: "It would be nice to think of ourselves as innovators. I think we're creative, but in terms of being masterminds, no. We're just making some music that we like."

Adam Yauch: "I'm pretty hopeful about the evolution of humanity in general."

Cyndi Lauper Quotes

"My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone."

"You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine."

"You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing."

"I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever."

"Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing."

"People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them."

"Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher."

"I never really thought I was that different. I thought what I wanted to do was different. The artistic things I wanted to do, maybe they were very different."

"Be who you are and be honest about your music. Work hard and keep learning your craft."

"On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors."

Chrissie Hynde Quotes

"I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress."

"I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community."

"I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them."

"Do not insist on working with females, that's just more b.s. Get the best man for the job. If it happens to be a woman, great."

"Songwriting isn't my life; it's just something I do. It was a way for me not to be a waitress."


"I don't know anything about guitars, really. A guitar is just a thing, a tool."

"Music is not my life. Being in a rock and roll band is not my life. It's my hobby. I've got a life, thanks."

"I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream."

"I just want to keep it basic: four players, boom, boom, boom, a couple notes, three chords. It's like a real small bank job. Just enough to get by. Quick in and out."

"I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did."

Bret Michaels Quotes

"My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns."

"I've had plenty of big hits and plenty of big misses."

"My dad always said the difference between try and triumph was a little umph."

"Everyone wants to go to the party and the red carpet, but my life is 90% the work."

"In the music business, and being an artist. It's truley, feast or famine."

"What's kept me sane is I still love making music, and I always have my ear to the street."

"Music is and always will be my life. It's medicine. It's therapy. It's party time!"


"Times change, we grow older, we change our minds about things, and as long as I'm true to myself, it shines through."

"I absolutely love and enjoy being around other musicians and listening to them play. I have no ego."

"I always think in life passion supersedes everything."

Willie Nelson Quotes

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."

"Most  of the stuff I've read about me has been true."

"I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times."

"I guess if you can't sing, you better have style."

"Since I come from Texas, there's a lot of Texas in me."

"I'm a country songwriter and we write cry-in-your-beer songs. That's what we do. Something that you can slow dance to."

"There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again."


"Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play."

"We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the common denomination that brings us all together."

"I'm a romantic slob."

Simon & Garfunkel Quotes

Paul Simon: "We've survived by believing our life is going to get better."

Art Garfunkel: "I met paul in our school play, Alice In Wonderland. He was this funny guy who cracked me up all the time."

Paul Simon: "Improvisation is too good to leave to chance."




Art Garfunkel: "I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out."

Paul Simon: "Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and a player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that."

Art Garfunkel: "I hated performimg. I love to sing but I don't love to sing in front of people. I don't have much of a feel for performing."

Paul Simon: "There was no great pressure to stay together other than money, which exerted very little influence upon us. We didn't need the money."

Art Garfunkel: "Paul is like John Lennon. They're feisty. There's a rebellious attitude."

Paul Simon: "The breakup had to do with a natural drifting apart as we got older and the separate lives that were more individual."

Art Garfunkel: "We were tired of working together. We wanted a break from each other."

Carlos Santana Quotes

"Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said 'Oh man, this is the stuff'."

"Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life."

"We want to extend and invitation to healing. Turn off CNN and turn on the light in your own heart."

"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be be is an instrument of peace."

"You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso."



"It's time for people to realize that we are all mixed up inside. That is why there is so much diversity on my records. I can relate to so many cultures and I want that to be reflected in my music."

"The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero."

"Gene Simmons is not a musician, He's an entertainer. A musician is Coltrane, Bob Marley. KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask."

"No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or B.B. King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real."

"There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save."

Tupac Shakur Quotes

"Everybody's at war with different things. I'm at war with my own heart sometimes."

"There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me."

"I'll probably be punished for hard living."

"Even the genius asks questions."

"Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel."



"I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man."

"I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable."

"During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams."

"I just don't know how to deal with so  many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life."

"For every dark night, there's a brighter day."

"With all my fans I got a family again."

Meat Loaf Quotes

"I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast."

"Performers only go wacko when they fall from grace if they like the adulation more than the work."

I met Elvis and John Lennon and I was an idiot. A complete moron."


"You know, people think I named myself Meat Loaf, even though I didn't. And they think anyone who would name himself Meat Loaf couldn't have an IQ higher than four."

"I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting."

I listen to everything just to see what they're all doing. I really do. I listen to 50 Cent, to Faith Hill, because I want to know what everybody's doing, I just want to hear it."

"You can decide what you want to eat for dinner, you can decide to go away for the weekend, and you can decide what clothes you're going to wear in the morning, but when it comes to artistic things, there's never a rhyme or reason. It's, like, they just happen. And they happen when they happen."

"You do not measure success by sales or dollars and cents. It is measured by the work, how you feel, and did you give everything you had?"

"There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life."

"I'm not built to be a celebrity."

Kid Rock Quotes

"I always believed it would happened and stuck to my guns."

"Detroit: cars and rock & roll. Not a bad combo."

"I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow."


"I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that."

"If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If it's marketed right, you'll buy it. But if it's real, you'll feel it."

"I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop."

"You know, America loves the underdog and I'm no longer the underdog, so if people are going to start taking shots at me, I'm ready."

"I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from."

"I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do."

ZZ Top Quotes

Billy Gibbons: "Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree."

Billy Gibbons: "The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential."

Dusty Hill: "I promise you, if we did 'Fly Me To The Moon' it would still sound like ZZ Top. It's just the way we play."


Billy Gibbons: "The prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film...a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation."

Frank Beard: "Yes. My last name is Beard and I don't have a beard. Next question!"

Billy Gibbons: "This place won't be here tomorrow, so let's tear it down tonight."

Dusty Hill: "For our legacy, I hope people would listen to the body of the work and not just one segment. Most people have their favorites or don't like us at all, and any of that's cool."

Billy Gibbons: "Same three guys, right here. Same three chords right here. And we've been doing this for 35 years."

Billy Gibbons: "Turn on, tune up, rock out."

Def Leppard Quotes

Joe Elliott: "Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together."

Rick Allen: "There's a standard that we never let ourselves go below. We're our own worst critics."

Phil Collen: "We make music for escapism. It's like Star Wars for the Ears."

Rick Savage: "We were not into punk. We were all heavy rock fans before we formed this band."

Steve Clark: "It's an incredible feeling to stand on stage and see so many people getting into your music. I can't imagine there being a more satisfying feeling in the world."

Vivian Campbell: "I don't have to try and be a comedian to fit in the band. It's such a comfortable vibe."

Joe Elliott: "We always had a plan for success. From the very start we've known what we wanted to accomplish. Everything's progressed amazingly."

Rick Allen: "When anything happens to us we always pull together, not only personally but musically."

Phil Collen: "We thought a lot of the heavy metal stuff was ridiculous. And we still do. We didn't want to be Duran Duran either, so we were somewhere in the middle."

Rick Savage: "Being in a band is all about compromise. When everybody can compromise and still feel they're going in the right direction, then you have a happy band."

Phil Collins Quotes

"I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit."

"I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I makes ends meet."

"I mean, I was called the ugliest man since George Orwell. What's that got to do with music? And, by the way, how ugly was George Orwell?"

"I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts."

"There's a lot of stuff there that music critics just don't go for. To them, I'm some kind of landmark of middle-of-the-roadness, or I'm not edgy enough, or I've been around too long to be taken seriously."


"I don't own an Abba album and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic."

(On Peter Gabriel) "As far as I'm concerned he is a far more intellectual writer and person than me, and I have a directness that maybe he hasn't. I love this man and his music very much."

"A lot of the older fans think that Genesis should be a brand name for progressive rock or whatever, but actually Genesis is the name for a group of songwriters who have always done whatever they felt like under that banner."

"I like a fair bit of what the Oasis do. They remind me of Beatles...a great band and I like being reminded of Beatles."

Billy Joel Quotes

"I look in the mirror and I go: you're a rock star? It's funny I don't look like a rock star, I don't walk around thinking like a rock star."

"It's weird you know, the values. Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine yet I'm worth more money than he is."

"I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection."

"More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible."

"I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes."

"The good ol' days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems."


"I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artists."

"Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?"

"If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time."

I've been able to make a living as a musician, and that's the greatest blessing of all. The fame, the wealth, the awards, and all that, that's all gravy."

"I'm just this shlubby guy who plays the piano."

Cher Quotes

"I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage."

"I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me."

"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing, and then marry him."

"In this business it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete."

"If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen."

"I don't like my voice that much. I think I'm a much better actress than singer."


"Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world."

"If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life."

"Don't buy into the idea that women aren't strong enough to do anything they want on their own."

"I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive."

"I haven't a clue why I've lasted so long. There's no reason. There are many people more talented than me. I think it's luck."

Crosby, Stills & Nash Quotes

David Crosby: "We've all been friends for a long time. And when the vibe's good we really have a lot of fun with each other."

Stephen Stills: "I abhorred hippies. That's fair and accurate."

Graham Nash: "If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago."

David Crosby: "We don't take show business or the spotlight seriously."

Stephen Stills: "I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar."

Graham Nash: "With Crosby, Stills and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young...we're very strong individuals, and we want our lives to be led the way we want them to."

David Crosby: "Good music is an end in and of itself. When you're doing it, it's the most fun part."

Stephen Stills: "Over the years I've had other people to please but now I've finally got to play in the way I always wanted to do in the first place."

Graham Nash: "The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked."

George Michael Quotes

"Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart."

"Freddie Mercury was a huge source of inspiration to me as a child."

"If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it."

"I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it. I'm a perfectionist."

"I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important."

"In a strange way I've spent the last 15 to 20 years trying to derail my own career."

"I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really."

"You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart."

"I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do."

Jim Morrison Quote

"Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs."

"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."

"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts."

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are."

"I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think."

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."

"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."

"I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between."

"There are things known and things unknown and in between are the Doors."

"This is the strangest life I've ever known."

Duran Duran Quotes

Andy Taylor: "I'd always felt like being weird, but there was no one to be weird with in Newcastle."

John Taylor: "I met Nick at an institute for waywardly homoerotic teenagers."

Roger Taylor: "Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band."

Simon Le Bon: " That's what a bit of ice cube on the nipple will do fore you."

Nick Rhodes: "The eighties were so inventive because people wanted to stand out. By the time we got to the nineties, everyone wanted to fit in."

John Taylor: "That's how me and Nick became friends...we were both into girls' clothes."

Simon Le Bon: "The greatest musician I know is John Taylor."

Andy Taylor: "They were the biggest bunch of weirdos I'd ever seen."

Nick Rhodes: "I find that the older you get, the more helpful eyeliner is."

Roger Taylor: "I finally got the call from John...about getting the band back together again. It was so out of the blue. I almost thought the moment had passed."

Stevie Wonder Quotes

"Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness."

"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."

"You can't base your life on other people's expectations."

"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

"The way the world is right now, we need more love."

"Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that."

"I just dig audiences. That to me is the most worthwhile thing about this whole business. Just people coming to have a good time and letting me sing for them."

"Among all the wonderful things we have, we don't seem to have a time to love. And to me that's the fuel, that's the fuel we need to make the engine go."

"No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music."

"Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision."

Ringo Starr Quotes

"When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.""

"I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage."

"I met the Beatles while we were playing in Germany. We'd seen them in Liverpool, but they were a nothing little band then, just putting it together. In fact, they weren't really a band at all."

"I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it."

"When I started, there was rock, there was pop, there was country. That was about all. And now it's divided into 30 categories. Now I don't know one from the other."

"The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite."

"I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out."

"That was a great time. I was in my 20's, had lots of energy. I have great memories of it."

"I am a big Beatles fan."

I'm probably the best rock & roll drummer on earth. I say that now because I used to be embarrassed to speak up for myself."

"Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice."

Motley Crue Quotes

Nikki Sixx: "I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser."

Tommy Lee: "When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine."

Vince Neil: "If the songs aren't there and you throw a TV set out of the window, who cares."

Nikki Sixx: "The industry is a menace to artists."


Mick Mars: "Musicians today have gotten used to protools, which I hate. You can go into the studio and not even be a musician."

Tommy Lee: "Just because we are wearing lipstick doesn't mean we can't kick your ass."

Vince Neil: "Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street."

Tommy Lee: "I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise you're putting limets on yourself."

Vince Neil: "So everyone is happy,... you know the fans are happy. We're happy. I'm digging it."

Mick Mars: "We didn't listen to critics, we did things with fans and we did it our way. That's what I'd like to be remembered by."

Nikki Sixx: "How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records."

Nirvana Quotes

Kurt Cobain: "We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves."

Dave Grohl: "I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started."

Krist Novoselic: "This band is a real collaboration, and I'm grateful to anybody who can appreciate our music."

Kurt Cobain: "Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird."

Dave Grohl: "From one generation to the next, the Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time."


Krist Novoselic: "If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar."

Kurt Cobain: "we sound like the Bay City Rollers after an assault by Black Sabbath. And, we vomit onstage better than anyone."

Dave Grohl: "When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine, it kind of sucks the life out of music."

Krist Novoselic: "I'm just really happy, because I think we're a great band, and I really like great bands."

Kurt Cobain: "The thrill and embarrassment of becoming international pop stars was too much, so we open our mouths and put our foot in sometimes."

Dave Grohl: "I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?"

Krist Novoselic: "Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart."

Bon Jovi Quotes

Jon Bon Jovi: "Success is falling nine times and getting up ten."

Richie Sambora: "If you don't believe in your self, how do you expect someone else to believe in you?"

Jon Bon Jovi: "Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate."

David Bryan: "Forget the real world. Come to a Bon Jovi show. It's putting your hands up in the air and singing and having a blast."

Jon Bon Jovi: "Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time, you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be."

Richie Sambora: "Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life."

Tico Torres: "If we're having fun, I think that translates to the people in the audience that they can have fun too."

Jon Bon Jovi: "Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled."

Richie Sambora: "I'm on a search for my future Ex-wife."

Guns N' Roses Quotes

Axel Rose: "My favorite cartoon characters are Metallica and Slash."

Slash: "Sex and drugs go hand in hand when you're a rock & roll musician. If I were a violinist, it might be a different matter."

Izzy Stradlin: "We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions, personalities, it just became too much."


Duff McKagen: "We are not the guardian angels of anybody. We only play authentic, nasty rock & roll."

Slash: "Axel is like a magnet for problems. I've never met anybody like him. He's the kind of guy that would get a toothbrush stuck down his throat because that particular toothbrush happened to be defective."

Axel Rose: "I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you, even when they like you."

Steven Adler: "Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame."

Duff Mckagen: "This is the kind of band that will probably always have something strange going on in it. People don't really understand us."

Slash: "My biggest regret is letting it get so big and letting it fall apart but then it wasn't necessarily my fault."

Axel Rose: "Some people say I got a chip on my shoulder."

Rod Stewart Quotes

"What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason."

"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."

"Well, there's not a day goes by when I don't get up and say thank you to somebody."

"I've been out with some extremely beautiful women who have no sex appeal whatsoever. It really is a lot more than skin deep."

"I've got Ferraris coming out me bum."

"I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down."



"I don't think people expect Bruce Springsteen to come out in a pink satin jacket, but Rod Stewart they do."

"Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps."

"If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening."

"You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family."

"There's no reason why I should retire."

Spice Girls Quotes

Melanie Chisholm (Sporty Spice): "Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience."

Melanie Brown (Scary Spice): "I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me."

Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice): "I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out."


Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice): "You can't beat attitude, intelligence and a wonderbra. It's a lethal combination."

Emma Bunton (Baby Spice): "I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different."

Melanie Chisholm: "I know I'm not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways."

Geri Halliwell: "I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not try at all."

Emma Bunton: "Be yourself, take control of your life."

Victoria Beckham: "I'm still me even after all that's happened."

Melanie Brown: "We were young crazy women and now we're young crazy mothers."

Metallica Quotes

James Hetfield: "I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something."

Lars Ulrich: "Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth."

Kirk Hammett: "I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going."



Dave Mustaine: "Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard."

James Hetfield: "When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening."

Jason Newsted: "I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living."

Kirk Hammett: "We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances."

Cliff Burton: "Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do."

Robert Trujillo: "At the end of the day, it's all about the experience of having a good time and connecting with fans."

Lars Ulrich: "One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future."

Bee Gees Quotes

Robin Gibb: "We've been in each other's pockets our entire lives."

Barry Gibb: "I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time."

Maurice Gibb: "Everybody who knows us knows we always have a good time."

Barry Gibb: "I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything."



Maurice Gibb: "I'll be honest. We copied everyone...the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you."

Robin Gibb: "Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other than we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person."

Maurice Gibb: "People accuse us of being nothing more than a disco band now, but they don't know what they're talking about."

Barry Gibb: "It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band."

Robin Gibb: "I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee."

Barry Gibb: "The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home."

Bruce Springsteen Quotes

"See, I was nine years old when I saw Elvis on 'Ed Sullivan', and I had to get a guitar the next day. I stood in front of my mirror with that guitar on, and I knew then that's what had been missing."

"When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar."

"From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life."


"Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers."

"The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."

"You know the old saying: trust the art, not the artist. I think that's true. I think somebody can do real good work and be a fool in a variety of ways."

"It's a sign of strength to put your hand out and ask for help, whether it's a friend or a professional or whatever."

"If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it."

"I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream."

"When it comes to luck, you make your own."

AC/DC Quotes

Angus Young: "We're a rock group. We're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird."

Bon Scott: "I am the poet with this band."

Brian Johnson: "I was annoyed that Bon wasn't given the respect due when he was alive."

Angus Young: "I just go where the guitar takes me."

Bon Scott: "Don't know what I'd do without this band, you know. I live for it. We're a real down and dirty lot."

Malcolm Young: "I don't think any bastard knows who I am anyway, so I never have any trouble getting mobbed off stage."

Angus Young: We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires."

Bon Scott: "We never care about labels such as punk, psychedelic or whatever else."

Brian Johnson: "Punk and all that was just an image that ripped people off. Johnny Rotten's a wanker, and that's all there is to it."

Angus Young: "Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude."

Bon Scott: "I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop."

Malcolm Young: "We've always been a true band. You won't find one any truer."

Eagles Quotes

Don Henley: "I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock & roll teeth listening to him."

Glen Frey: "Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did."

Joe Walsh: "You know, Mozart and Beethoven never got royalty checks."

Don Henley: "I'm certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I'm quite proud of."



Bernie Leadon: "It was my choice to leave when I did. I did it for good reasons, and do not regret it."

Don Felder: "We created this monster with Hotel California, and it ate us."

Joe Walsh: "I'd always felt I was so unique, so individual, and nobody understood. I was the exception to everything. And I found out no, I'm an alcoholic. Getting into recovery I found I'm not alone."

Timothy B. Schmit: "The Beatles were massive to me, I learned so much from them. And, of course, Paul McCartney, when it comes to singing and playing the bass, he made a big impression. It's so much harder than it looks, but Paul did make it look easy."

Randy Meisner: "All that stuff and all the arguing amongst the Eagles is over now. Well at least for me."

Don Henley: "Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up."

Glen Frey: "One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building The Perfect Beast."

Elton John Quotes

"I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid."

"Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours."

"An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make."

"I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano."

"I'm not a fan of talent shows. I probably wouldn't have lasted if I'd gone on one."

"They influenced me just from the songwriting point of view. Lennon and McCartney, there's no question of it, no one will ever equal the quality of the songs they wrote."

"Every artist who makes it goes through a period where it seems they're invincible. We've seen it with Phil Collins, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna and Prince. It just seems like they can't fail. And then suddenly everything levels off."

"In the early 70's there were at least ten albums released every week that were fantastic. Now you're lucky to find ten albums a year of that quality.

"The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too."

"The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star."