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."