U2 Quotes

Bono: "I want to play the guitar very badly, and I do play the guitar very badly."

The Edge: "Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month."

Larry Mullen Jr.: "If Bono left we could carry on. If I left we'd be screwed."

Bono: "Everybody argues, then we do what I say."

Adam Clayton: "For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else."

Bono: "The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well."

Larry Mullen Jr.: "We've all made enough money to live for the rest of our lives quite comfortably. that's enough money."

The Edge: "I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar heroes do."

Bono: "U2 is an original species...there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain that  we occupy that is ours and ours alone."

Adam Clayton: "We have a really healthy respect for each other. It's probably taken a little while to get to that point but quite often we'll be digging in the same hole."

The Edge: "People always ask us if we think our songs can really change anything. And I always say that's not why we wrote the songs. We didn;t write them so they would change the situation."

Bono: "As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both."

Police Quotes

Stewart Copeland: "I'm the one member of the group who is the biggest fan of the group."

Sting: "It's my job to sing a song I wrote thirty years ago as if I'd written it in the afternoon."

Stewart Copeland: "When we were young, we had to conquer the world. Now I just enjoy playing my drums. I don't have to worry about making my name in music."

Sting: "Your parents name you, but they haven't a clue who you are. Your friends nickname you because they know exactly who you are."

Andy Summers: "I like to show off onstage, and I enjoy the stardom part as well, but I'm glad that Sting has had all that attention, because he's been a fantastic focal point."

Sting: "Assume you're going to make different mistakes than the ones your parents made with you, because you will."

Andy Summers: "Essentially we were a rock band playing rock songs but I was able to bring in some much more unusual guitar stylings as had been previously heard."

Stewart Copeland: "People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard the Police as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way."

Sting: "Sometimes mediocre poetry becomes incredible song material."

Andy Summers: "I don't have a great nostalgia for the past."

Bob Dylan Quotes

"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent."

"At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage."

"Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything."

"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."

"Swallow your pride, you will not die, it's not poison."


"I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that."

"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."

"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."

"You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in a gas station and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist."

"People can learn everything about me through my songs, if they know where to look."

"I've only written four songs in my whole life, but I've written those four songs a million times."

"All I can do is be me, whoever that is."

Great Rock & Roll Guest Appearances

Edward Van Halen's guitar solo on Michael Jackson's 'Beat It' (1982).

Eric Clapton's guitar solo on the Beatles 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' (1968).

John Lennon playing guitar on David Bowie's 'Fame' (1975).

Mick Jagger singing back up on Carly Simon's 'You're So Vain' (1972).

David Bowie Singing a duet with Bing Crosby on 'Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy' (1982)
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David Gilmour playing guitar on Paul McCartney's 'No More Lonely Nights' (1984).

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards & Keith Moon singing background vocals on the Beatles' 'All You Need Is Love' (1967).

Roy Harper singing lead vocals on Pink Floyd's 'Have A Cigar' 91975).

Jimmy Page's guitar solo on the Kink's 'You Really Got Me' (1964).

U2 performing on Robbie Robertson's 'Sweet Fire Of Love' (1987).

k.d. lang singing with Roy Orbison on 'Crying' (1984).

George Harrison playing rhythm guitar on Cream's 'Badge' (1968).

Sex Pistols Quotes

Malcolm McLaren: "The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas."

Johnny Rotten: "If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you."

Sid Vicious: "I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum."

Steve Jones: "We're not into music. We're into chaos."


Johnny Rotten: "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."

Glen Matlock: "There was a lot of stuff going down in England at the time. We didn't set out to be deliberately outrageous; we were just pretty forthright."

Sid Vicious: "I don't want to be a junkie for the rest of my life. I don't want to be a junkie at all."

Malcolm McLaren: "Try managing a junkie, especially if you've never been one yourself."

Paul Cook: "What was the most miraculous thing about it all was that at the end we actually got an encore. People wanted more."

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

Sid Vicious: "In the end I was the only one with any anarchy left in me."

Diana Ross Quotes

"My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer, the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems."

"Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then."

"Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch."

"A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all."

"I'm not really a songwriter, I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart."

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

"Hair has always been important."

"In my life I want to keep moving forward, but sometimes reflection is a good thing."

Prince Quotes

"Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people."

"What's missing from pop music is danger."

"People say I'm wearing heels because I'm short. I wear heels because the women like 'em."

"What If I don't want to sing Purple Rain every time I go on stage? The fans don't want that, either. It's my music, they're my songs."

"One thing I'd like to say is that I don't live in a prison. I am not afraid of anything. I haven't built any walls around myself, and I am just like anyone else. I need love and water."

"Another big influence was Joni Mitchell. She taught me a lot about color and sound, and to her, I'm very grateful."

"But again, it's the record company. If they don't want to promote a song, they don't make the effort to cross it over into other markets, and the fans don't get to know it. It's the same with my albums."

Sting Quotes

"An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life."

"I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big."

"It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do."

"One of the rewards of success is freedom. the ability to do whatever you like."

"It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game."

"If anyone described me as a genius I would laugh. I have my moments, I just have to join them together."


"Sting as a name is no sillier than Beethoven or Mozart. What's in a name? It's my name now. If I ever back off from it, I'll have a real good reason. But right now I don't feel like it. It's a spanner in the works. Can this man really be taken seriously with such a ridiculous name?"

"What is happiness? Where is it? It's not in selling millions of records. It's not in being hugely famous or desired by all these people. It must be somewhere else."

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

"I tend to write the music first. If it's good music, it has a story."

Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

"To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory."

"I knew it was time to get off reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted."

"I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night."

"I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister."

"The idea of a band nowadays is five pretty boys, one with a tattoo, one with a shaved head, and on and on."

"I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat, but that's OK, the bat had to get Ozzy shots."


"One of my greatest regrets is that I urinated on the Alamo."

"The lifestyle I've been living for the last thirty years, I could have been dead a thousand times."

"My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk."

"To be a parent, especially to rock & roll kids, I think being a parent is the most difficult job on the face of the earth. You hate to say things that will upset your kids, but then sometimes you have to because you can't let them run around wild."

"I don't consider myself a great singer, but I have a connection with the audience."

"Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most."

"Could be worse. I could be Sting."

Frank Zappa Quotes

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open."

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."

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

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."


"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."

"The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows."

"Remember there is a big difference between kneeling down and bending over."

"I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird."

Motown Quotes

Martha Reeves: "Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world."

Diana Ross: "You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself."

David Ruffin: "We're entertainers, not just singers."

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

Marvin Gaye: "If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."

Berry Gordy: "I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had."

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

Lionel Ritchie: "All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes."

Diana Ross: "If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains."

Berry Gordy: "Today's business climate is not for me."

Smokey Robinson: "Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist."