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."