Johnny Cash Quotes

"Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the fights."

"The best way to say anything is just to say it."

"When God forgave me, I figured I'd better too."

"It's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people."

"I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television."

"I read novels but I also read the Bible. And Study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get."

"There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at."

"Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives."

"If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all."

"Children, all your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate...I choose love."

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone."

Trent Reznor Quotes

"I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am."

"I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay."

"Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look."

"I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs."

"Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes."

"I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work."

"When I was five, I got forced into taking piano lessons. And it came really naturally to me. Knowing that I was good at something played an important role in my confidence."

"I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be."

"My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there."

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say."

"I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't think music should be free."

Iggy Pop Quotes

"Try to find some ground that hasn't been covered."

"Almost all cool-ass rock front guys are incredibly huge assholes. It would be nice to meet one who wasn't."

"I can't do it all myself. I'm not that kind of artist, I'm the kind of artist who works off other people best."

"Onstage, I've been hit by grapefruit, beer cans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, mandies, Quaaludes, joints, panties, and a fist."

"I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet."

"I don't know Johnny Rotten, but I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did."

"I'm really not good with the pickups. I'm a klutz and don't have a line of gab. I'm only good if they know who I am."

"Before they shot Kennedy, I wanted to be president."

"I have no direction in life whatsoever other than to try and live, be sensible and enjoy myself."

"Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive."

Elvis Costello Quotes

"I can't actually play any instrument properly. I can't read music."

"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."

"I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies."

"The only two things that motivate me and that matter to me are revenge and guilt."

"It was difficult to develop an original style. I have no idea who it was I might have been imitating. Whether consciously or unconsciously."

"I don't know much about Morrissey. Apart from the fact he sometimes brings out records with the greatest titles in the world that somewhere along the line he neglects to write songs for."

"I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years.And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you."

"There is something kind of absurd about people who live in such a comfortable, cushioned, spoiled society tattooing themselves and piercing themselves to make them appear tribal. We're trying to act like we're some sort of tribe that's been discovered in the mall."

"You can always say it could be better, but if you're not careful with ambition, the next thing you know you're sailing a statue of yourself down the river."

"I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music."

The Clash Quotes

Mick Jones: "The chemistry of the four of us is so unique. But also each person is the sum of their experiences when they play music."

Paul Simonon: "We weren't a political party, it was all about personal politics."

Nicky Headon: "I was watching The Who on Top Of The Pops, it was My Generation they were doing and I just thought...I want to be Keith Moon."

Joe Strummer: "Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot."

Mick Jones: "Rock 'n' roll means so much more to people, it enriches the culture."



Paul Simonon: "I didn't want the role of being Entwhistle or Bill Wyman, stuck in the background. That's too depressing and if that was what I'd been offered with The Clash I would've turned it down."

Mick Jones: "This is an important fact: people prefer to dance than to fight wars."

Paul Simonon: "London Calling was good for me personally as it was a moment of learning how to play the bloody instrument and writing a song."

Joe Strummer: "Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough."

Nicky Headon: "It was the chemistry between the four of us. But none of us really knew what made The Clash work."

Mick Jones: "It's nice when people are still interested in what you've done. Maybe they'll be interested in what you're doing now as well."

Joe Strummer: "I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people."

Great Quotes From Grunge Rock Artists

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

Eddie Vedder: "The best songs are the ones that make you feel something."

Courtney Love: "I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming."

Jerry Cantrell: "That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate with people that inspired you to make music."

Layne Staley: "Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy tale life, they lead to suffering."

Chris Cornell: "At the end of the day it's the fans who make you who you are."

Krist Novoselic: "Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it."

Dave Grohl: "I looked at Krist and Kurt as soul mates. The two had such a beautiful, unspoken understanding of each other."

Melissa Auf Der Maur: "I never grew up thinking I could make a living playing music, you know?"

Brit Pop Quotes

Gaz Coombes (Supergrass): "The Brit pop scene was overrated with a lot of mediocre bands making average music."

Jarvis Cocker (Pulp): "For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it."

Thom Yorke (Radiohead): "I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape."

Liam Gallagher (Oasis): "I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night."

Damon Albarn (Blur): "Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world."

Justine Frischmann (Elastica): "I just thought it was better to be Pete Best than Linda McCartney."

Brett Anderson (Suede): "I've had fights and feuds but you realise that there's no point throwing that all away. You look back and value the good stuff."

Saffron (Republica): "I don't get it when people say 'just a pop band'. I think being a brilliant pop band is the highest thing you can aspire to."

Noel Gallagher (Oasis): "Rock 'n' Roll is about music, music, music, music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes."

Richard Ashcroft (The Verve): "What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music?"

Richey Edwards (Manic Street Preachers): "I think if there's one person in the audience every night or one person that buys the album that understands us, that's enough for us."

Yoko Ono Quotes

"Every drop in the ocean counts."

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."

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



"I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it"

"I go to the park on Sundays, and I see men pushing babies. And it's beautiful. They don't know that John was the first one to do that. The very first one. No man would be caught doing that before John."

"If John was still alive we would have retired to Cornwall. He said we would be sitting in rocking chairs together, waiting for a postcard to come from Sean."

"Paul, musically, is extremely knowledgeable as well. He's just a quick to write songs. He's just different, that's all."

"No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles."

"Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that."

"Art is my life and my life is art."

"At least I had that, one guy understood me."

Michael Stipe Quotes

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did, and didn't, in the 1960's.

I wouldn't survive ten minutes on American Idol.

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

Radiohead are so good they scare me.



New York can do that to you. You come here to change the world but you end up changing yourself.

I grew up in an era where the Banana Splits, the Archies and the Monkees  were the music that I listened to. The Beatles were the music that was playing in the background.

We made mistakes, but they were ours, and that kind of pride of ownership, whether it`s the really good stuff or the bad and embarrassing stuff, is a really good feeling.

Lately I`ve been listening to Q-tip almost non-stop. And Bjork, and Thom Yorke from Radiohead, Natalie Merchant, Grant-Lee Phillips and Courtney Love and Bono. A lot of those people are people that I know and have friendships with. And when they do something great it really challenges me to kind of one-up them.

If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well.