Pat Benetar Quotes

"I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America."

"How many of these little untalented pop tarts can't really sing."

"I'm a Capricorn, and I'm pretty focused. Once I make up my mind to do something, I just do it."

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


"There was tons of sex, it just happened to be with my husband."

"If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens."

"I was pretty much done with that bad girl, tough cookie thing really quickly. It was very one dimensional, and very old. It got old really quickly."

"You're so maniacal and driven and you're worried about so many different things. Just relax because you'll figure it out. Listen to your gut and you will find your way."

"People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life."

"Musicians don't get a chance to develop careers very much. It's kind of disposable and over quickly. That's kind of a shame because the real interesting part is when you have time to develop. You can change and grow."

Van Halen Quotes

David Lee Roth: "What's rock & roll without a little drama? A little mix it up?"

Edward Van Halen: "We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters."

Michael Anthony: "I'm not a rockstar, I'm a bass player."

David Lee Roth: "I don't do well with support. I do better with abuse."




Sammy Hagar: "I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me."

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

Gary Cherone: "Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for ten years."

Edward Van Halen: "I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland."

Sammy Hagar: "When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn't go along with that too well."

Alex Van Halen: "Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band."

David Lee Roth: "I look at heavy metal music, Van Halen's brand of heavy metal music rather, as a combination of religion and hockey."
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Monkees Quotes

Davy Jones: "Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axel Rose stole my dance!"

Peter Tork: "Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins."

Mike Nesmith: (On rejoining the Monkees) "It would be kind of like Ronald Reagan making another movie."

Micky Dolenz: "The best advice I've ever given or received, in or out of the entertainment business, is as follows: get a good lawyer."

Davy Jones: "I keep hearing that any excuse you can give for a Monkees reunion is a good excuse, which doesn't bother me at all, since I couldn't agree more."

Micky Dolenz: "The best (advice) was to never take myself too seriously and never start believing you are the person that people are seeing up on the screen."

Peter Tork: "Pop music, disco music and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away."

Mike Nesmith: "I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me."

Davy Jones: "I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them."

Peter Tork: "Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out of those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music."

Davy Jones: "The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out."

Rolling Stones Quotes

Keith Richards: "Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life."

Mick Jagger: "The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either."

Ronnie Wood: "When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy."

Keith Richards: "You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to."

Bill Wyman: "I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on."

Mick Taylor: "I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters."

Keith Richards: "To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you."

Mick Jagger: "People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable."

Ronnie Wood: "Mick says, would you join the band? I say to him, Mick you know I'd be there in a New York minute."

Charlie Watts: "You'd think Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't."

Mick Jagger: "A good thing never ends."

Led Zeppelin Quotes

Jimmy Page: "I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing."

John Bonham: "Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at."

Robert Plant: "I owe everything to musicians I work with."

John Paul Jones: "We could do anything we wanted, as we were good enough musicians."

Jimmy Page: "I don't think critics could understand what we were doing."

John Bonham: "People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me."

Jimmy Page: "My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence."

Robert Plant: "My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today."

John Bonham: "I don't consider that I'm particularly influenced by anyone or anything. But when I started playing, I was influenced by early soul. It was just that feel, that sound."

Jimmy Page: "Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with Stairway To Heaven."

John Paul Jones: (On John Bonham) "He used to hit hard and he was loud, but he was actually a very subtle drummer in a lot of ways."

Robert Plant: "I don't want to scream Immigrant Song every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could."

Pink Floyd Quotes

Roger Waters: "I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing."

David Gilmour: (About Roger Waters) "I'm not very good at holding grudges for very long, but he's done some terrible things."

Syd Barrett: "When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group."


Roger Waters: "Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records."

Richard Wright: "There was this big personality clash between me and Roger, and at the end of the day I realised that I couldn't work with this person anyway, so I left."

David Gilmour: "It's nice to be loved and for one's contribution to be recognized in some way. I suppose I agree that we have had an influence on modern popular music."

Roger Waters: "I have nothing against Dave Gilmour furthering his own goals. It's just the idea of Dave's solo career masquerading as Pink Floyd that offends me."

Richard Wright: "It's a mistake thinking that drugs supplied Pink Floyd with inspiration. The ones who took drugs were the ones who came to see the shows."

David Gilmour: "No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend."

Roger Waters: "I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war."

Nick mason: "The recording of The Wall was very tense, mainly because Roger was starting to go a bit mad."

David Gilmour: "Roger doesn't have the right at present to tell me what to do with my life, although he believes that he does. And he'll not ruin my career, al
though lately he's been trying to."

Eric Clapton Quotes

"I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex."

"One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut."

"I would challenge anybody to come up with a better design for a guitar. The Stratocaster is as good as it gets."

"The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life."

I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?"



"My dedication to my music has driven everyone away. I've had girlfriends, but I always end up on my own. I don't particularly like it, but I don't see a way 'round it."

"My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity."

"We didn't really have a band with Cream. We rarely played as an ensemble; we were three virtuosos, all of us soloing all the time."

"Recovery is a positive thing. There's nothing to be ashamed of. When you know you need help, and seek help, you need that time to deal with it."

"I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist."

Paul Simon Quotes

"I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent."

"I don't like fashion. It's very heartless."

"There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful."

"I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing."

"It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him."

"Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do."



"Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work."

"Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good."

"I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it."

"I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't."

"My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting."

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

John Lennon Quotes

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."

"If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the sixties, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal."

"It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, wow, how did I get here?"

"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people."


"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."

"I don't believe in killing whatever the reason."

"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that...I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."

"Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something."

"As a kid I had a dream, I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed."

"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."

Aretha Franklin Quotes

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

"I'm a big woman. I need big hair."

"And I was booked once to go on Ed Sullivan and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying."

"My faith always has been and always will be important to me."


"If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about."

"Trying to grow up is hurting, you know. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't it hurts even more."

"I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else."

"I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage."

"Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!"

Tina Turner Quotes

"I don't like to dwell on the past."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their own dreams."

"I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in, year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go."

"I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way."

"I am attracted to myths."

"I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream...to have class."

"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."

"Sometimes you've got to let everything go, purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything, whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out."

"Physical strength in a woman...that's what I am."

"I'm pleased with my life, with the journey."

Neil Young Quotes

"I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else."

"Commitments are one of  the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying."

"My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock & roll, and it has an urgency to it."

"I never met Johnny Rotten, but I like what he did to people."

"I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger."

"The sixties was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together."

"When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near."

"Remember when you used to watch TV in the sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock & roll is becoming. It's your parents' music."

"I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master. If I'd like to be anyone, it's him. And he's a great writer, true to his music and done what he feels is the right thing to do for years and years and years."

"I never forgot, that every time a new Beatles or Dylan album came out, you knew they were way beyond it. They were always doing something else, always moving down the line."

"I just do what I do. I like to make music."

Pete Townshend Quotes

"I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue."

"It's not the fact I was brilliant, I am brilliant."

"The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life."

"Rock & roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them."

"Keith Moon is not interested in Jazz and won't ever be a Jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at."

"I needed to give back, give back, give back. I felt guilty about my success. I felt uncomfortable about how easily I had been delivered this extraordinary life I had."

"Who's Next is a great record, but it's a compromise. It could have been greater if people's attention span was longer and if vinyl allowed more time."

"The Who By Numbers is high on Roger's list of best ever Who records. He was a real editor on it. I delivered 35 demos and he chose the tracks we'd include."

"What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset."

George Harrison Quotes

"I'd rather be a musician than a rock star."

"The Beatles saved the world from boredom."

"The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them."

"The world used us as an excuse to go mad."

"If I play a song to Ringo I don't need to say to him, you know I want it to go like this, I just play it and he joins in. He's got a great feel."

"The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them."

"I wanted to be successful, not famous."


"I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock & roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front."

"I believe I love my guitar more than the others love theirs. For John And Paul, songwriting is pretty important and guitar playing is a means to an end."

"I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don't just stumble across. You've got to search for it."

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

Beatles Quotes

John's Aunt Mimi: "That guitar is okay, but you'll never make a living with it."

Ringo Starr: "We thought that if we lasted for two to three years that would be fantastic."

John Lennon: "When I was twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius...I am one, and if there isn't, I don't care."



George Harrison: "As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead."

John Lennon: "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

Paul McCartney: "There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway."

John Lennon: "It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man."

Ringo Starr: "So this is America. They must be out of their minds."

George Harrison: I wanted to be successful, not famous."

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

John Lennon: "I don't believe in killing whatever the reason."

Ringo Starr: "I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me."

Paul McCartney: "I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest."

John Lennon: "We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the new world. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship."

George Harrison: "The Beatles will go on and on."

Keith Richards Quotes

"Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters."

"The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do."

"To make a rock & roll record, technology is the least important thing."

"I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself."

"Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get."

"Rock & roll: music for the neck downwards."

"And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and the Beatles. It was very, very friendly."

"I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician."

"I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and a string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere."

"Cold turkey is not so bad after you've done it ten or twelve times."

"I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records."

"You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe,  and you've got the Rolling Stones."

Michael Jackson Quotes

"I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am."

"Me and Janet really are two different people."

"The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music."

"Before you judge me, try hard to love me."

"Know what I also love? Mannequins. I guess I want to bring them to life. I like to imagine talking to them."

"I have no problem with imitating. It's a compliment. Everybody has to start out looking up to somebody. For me it was James Brown, Sammy Davis Jr., Jackie Wilson, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly."

"Most people don't know me, that is why they write such things in which most is not true. I cry very very often because it hurts and I worry about the children, all my children all over the world. I live for them."

"People who grew up as child stars have the same thing in common. You're cute, they love you; you go through the awkward stage, they don't accept you any more. Very few make the transition to adult star."

"I put a lot of mannequins in my room in the past, and I still have mannequins in my room, because I used to be very lonely, painfully lonely."

"There's a Mother's day and a Father's day, but there's no children's day. It would mean a lot. World peace."

"I'll always be Peter Pan in my heart."

Jimi Hendrix Quotes

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

"Music is a safe kind of high."

"My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art."

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music."

"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes."

"I can't express myself in any conversation. But when I'm up on stage, it's all the world. It's my whole life."



"Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded."

"Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space."

"Money is getting out of hand now. The more money you make, sometimes the more blues you can sing."

"I don't really live on compliments. As a matter of fact, they have a way of distracting me."

"I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or as a tap dancer. I like to move around."

"We have time, there's no big rush."

Janis Joplin Quotes

"I'm one of those regular weird people."

"Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable."

"On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone."

"I might be the first hippie pin-up girl."

"If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time."

"I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought."

"Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me."

"My advice to everyone is come to California and I'll buy you a drink."

"You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow."

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow, it's all the same day."

Madonna Quotes

"Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion."

"I always thought I should be treated like a star."

"I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon...but I want to stay alive."

"I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices."

"I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me."

"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."


"I have my work and my faith...If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care."

"I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world."

"I'm anal retentive. I'm a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I'm a control freak. That's why I'm not married. Who could stand me?"

"I'd like to be more involved in making the world a better place."

"I hate being called a pop star. I hate that."

Joni Mitchell Quotes

"No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal."

"My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb."

"People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me, they're too personal."

"I thrive on change. That's probably why my chords changes are weird, because chords depict emotions."

"I hate show business."


"My favorite line in all of literature is Rudyard Kipling's monkey: "My people are the wisest people in the jungle, my people have always said so."

"You know, Neil Young is singing 'Rock n' roll will never die', and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him."

"When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down."

"I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate."

"My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head', and I took that as a great compliment."

Elvis Presley Quotes

"When I got out of high school I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis."

"Since the beginning it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now."

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away."

"The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one."

"I've tried to lead a straight, clean life., not set any kind of bad example."

"The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image."


"When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream."

"When things go wrong don't go with them."

"I get tired of playing a guy who gets into a fight, then starts singing to the guy he's just beat up."

"I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films, I could watch Rebel Without A Cause a hundred times over."

(To the Beatles) "Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed."

"Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it."

"Those people in New York are not gonna change me none."

"I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath."

John Lydon Quotes

John Lydon AKA Johnny Rotten, lead singer of the Sex Pistols, was one of the Architects of punk music and fashion.

"Chaos was my philosophy. Oh yeah, have no rules. If people start to build fences around you, break out and do something else. You should never, ever be understood completely."

"Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. as soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be."

"I lost Sid, my best and dearest friend, to heroin, and it's not nice. You've got to get away from drugs as escapism. There's nothing you need to run away from yourself as a human being. Quite the opposite. Learn to love thyself and all will be fine."


 "The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records."

"Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max."

"I'm surprised we aren't in jail for treason."

"The only place I have ever felt truly comfortable is on stage. I still get the nerves and the doubts beforehand, but on stage I feel that's my home."

(On Joe Strummer) "I miss him, by the way. There was something really good about him. He had a good little innocent spark in there, a real soul."

(On occupy Wall Street) "They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing the flute."

"I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine."

David Lee Roth Quotes

"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it."

"The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism."

"Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello."

"The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot."


"You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound."

" When large groups of people get together, their collective temperature goes up and their collective I.Q. goes down."

"Van Halen's up for a Grammy and half of us can't even spell it."

(About Sammy Hagar) "Sam throws a party. I am the party."

"Any kind of rock music is what I call high velocity folk music."

"We're not trying to save the world, that's U2's job."

"I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all."

"It don't matter what your doing, just as long as you look good doing it."

"I know the world doesn't revolve around Dave, but i like to think so."

"There's only one David Lee. I'm the fun in Van Halen, always will be."

Quotes About The Beatles

Timothy Leary: I declare that the Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

Bob Dylan: They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid. I knew they were pointing the direction of where music had to go.

Billy Joel: The Beatles were the band that made me realise it was possible to make a living as a musician. When I heard the Beatles, I said "that's what I want to do".

Gene Simmons: The Beatles were a band, of course, and I loved their music. But they were also a cultural force that made it OK to be different. They didn't look like everyone else, and they still made the girls scream.

Dave Grohl: The three of us (Nirvana) grew up listening to the Beatles, then classic rock and punk. Somehow it all came together.

Liam Gallagher: I love the Beatles. What more can I say? I'm not gonna lie to you. They make me happy. And I think they were the best, and still are.

Steven Spielberg: I resented the Beatles at first because it wasn't a fad I discovered for myself. I wasn't a Beatles fan until I listen to the White Album and became an instant convert.

Leonard Bernstein: Three bars of A Day In The Life still sustain me, rejuvenate me, inflame my senses and sensibilities.

Johnny Ramone: my favorite artists have always been Elvis and the Beatles, and they still are.

Roger Daltrey: All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.

Kurt Cobain Quotes

"Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all."

"If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop."

"I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me."

"I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me."

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

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

"I've always had a problem with the average macho man. They've always been a threat to me."

"Yeah, I was run out of town. They chased me up to the castle of Aberdeen with torches. Just like the Frankenstein monster. And I got away in a hot air balloon. And I came here to Seattle."

"Jocks have completely taken over music. Just to get back at them, I'm going to start playing basketball."

"I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar, hide in the back and just play."

"It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people."

"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than be loved for who I am not."

Mick Jagger Quotes

"As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen."

"I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over."

"People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten."



"I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done."

"I've managed to avoid tattoos so far."

"I don't want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags."

"I'm totally anti-nostalgia; I never listen to old Rolling Stones records. I'm not really interested in them. They're funny, sometimes, to hear."

"It's an overwhelming feeling, the audience. That must be why most of these people never give up performing. Because they just can't go without that sort of rush."

"People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Woman for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people."

" The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were. There isn't a real comparison with anyone now."

"I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs."

Eminem Quotes

"My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him."

"The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed."

"If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down."

It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a babysitter."

"A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious."

 "I had nothing to lose, but something to gain. If I made an album for me and it was to my satisfaction, then I succeeded."

"We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house."

"Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me."

"I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker."

"It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people."

"Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end."

" I need to keep working on myself for a while."

Paul McCartney Quotes

"I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest."

"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird."

"When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting."



"The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly."

"The basic thing in my mind was that for all our success the Beatles were always a great little band. Nothing more, nothing less."

"What I do is I look for the positive side. I'm the only guy who sat down with John and wrote all those songs. It's me. I've got to pinch myself, I can't believe it. I just feel blessed to have known him and to have experience his presence so intimately."

"I'm really glad that most of our songs were about love, peace and understanding."

"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard Heartbreak Hotel I thought, this is it."

"I now realize that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache."

"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music."

"The things is, we're all really the same person. We're just four parts of the one."

"There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway."

David Bowie Quotes

"I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously."

"I get offered so many bad movies. And they're all raging queens or transvestites or martians."

"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on."

"I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is it gets you a seat in restaurants."

"The only thing I ever got out of fame was a better table in a restaurant. And for that I gave up being able to relate to people."

"I once asked Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but it's just rock and roll with lipstick on.' "

"I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman."

"Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place."

"You would think that a rock star being married to a super model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is."

"It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be."

"I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir."

"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."