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."

Lou Reed Quotes

"One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz."

"I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen."

"One of my rules: Never listen to your old stuff."

"That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say."

"I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think."

"Chuck Berry is still out there playing. No one can play his music like he does. My stuff's the same way."




"Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way."

"I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all."

"I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that."

"My week beats your year."

Fleetwood Mac Quotes

Lindsey Buckingham: "In Fleetwood Mac nothing is certain until you actually see it. But it's up to us to not shoot ourselves in the foot."

Mick Fleetwood: "The value of friends has always been a natural thing. I prefer too many to too few."

Stevie Nicks: "I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that."


John McVie: "I'd rather be on the road than in the studio, although on the road I miss my family."

Stevie Nicks: "As a member of Fleetwood Mac, for two weeks I was still working at the restaurant because I'd given them notice. I didn't just want to walk in there and say 'I'm going to be a famous rock star so I quit and I never liked your food anyway.'"

Lindsey Buckingham: "When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making."

Mick Fleetwood: "Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally."

Christine McVie: "We'll never really stop playing with each other unless we really couldn't stand up anymore. We've barely scratched what we're capable of doing."

Stevie Nicks: "My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're
a band of brothers."

Olivia Newton-John Quotes

"There's a rumor going around that I'm Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. well, that's a laugh. I'm really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England."

"When I was a young girl I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet."

"I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself."



"I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young."

"My most treasured possessions are not things, they are only things, my friends, family and animals are what counts."

"There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end."

"I used to get horrible stage fright when I was younger and today I just love to sing for anyone who still turns up at my shows."

"I simply have a marvelous life, a very lucky life."

Tom Petty Quotes

"I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy."

"I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too."

"Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success."

"I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem."

"I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health."

"If you're phony, they will feel it in the farthest row of the arena. You have to really care. And you have to make yourself care time and time again."

"I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there."

"What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back, you have to be a kind of team going through life. That's beautiful, to have that kind of friendship. You're going to need it when you get old."

"Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it."

"Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person."