Stephen Stills Quotes

"One thing the blues ain't, is funny."

"David Crosby is an incredible musician. He's to the point now where he never makes mistakes."

"I ain't no Dylan, you know. I haven't got the gift of the language, I don't think."

Neil and I used to have guitar wars on stage that were really stupid. It was really funny."

"I abhorred hippies. That's fair and accurate."

"I'm a pretty private guy. I like having people over and having a meal at home."

"We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I can remember the names of some of the streets there."

"I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world."

"I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's going on."

"My first album would have been a number one record if George Harrison hadn't come out right behind me with All Things Must Pass."

David Crosby Quotes

"Being a hippy was the most natural thing in the world to me."

"There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing."

"I love Stephan Stills and Neil Young dearly. We talk all the time."

"We don't take show business or the spotlight seriously."


"The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died."

"Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants."

"We were right about a lot of things...but we were wrong about the drugs."

"I've always lived my life intensely and tried to write about those experiences, as opposed to writing abstract lyrics."

"At this stage of my life, I don't want to stay in one place too long without moving forward, without trying something new."

"I don't know why I'm alive and Jimi isn't and Janis isn't and Mama Cass isn't and all my other friends, I have no idea why me, but I got lucky."

"Who remembers the 60's? I don't look back hardly at all. I don't even remember Woodstock."

Quotes From The Rock Group The Cars

Benjimen Orr: "Ric is the leader and I don't have a problem with that."

Elliot Easton: "The highest form of guitar soloing is saying something in 16 bars and not wasting a note."

Ric Ocasek: Refusing to ask help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful."

Greg Hawkes: "Traditions exist so we can go beyond them."

Ric Ocasek: Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it."

Ric Ocasek: "There were times when I thought it was great fun, but then it became redundant and boring to me."



Elliot Easton: "When I was an early teenager I took some lessons but I didn't really find that I stuck with it all that much. I just wanted to play rock and roll."

David Robinson: "There was no internet when we made our last record. So the way people found music and bought music, and all of the record companies and how they operated has just completely changed."

Ric Ocasek: "Let's make another record and let the past be the past. Of course, we're never going to replace Ben, because he's irreplaceable."

Greg Hawkes: "I would say that one of the main challenges we have is to try to live up to the original Cars legacy and try to play the old songs with authority."

Deep Purple Quotes

Ritchie Blackmore (guitarist): "Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician."

Ian Paice (drummer): "To be a drummer you also have to be a musician."

Ian Gillan (vocalist 70's, 80's): "Once you get that label of classic rock around your head in America it's like a tombstone."

Ritchie Blackmore: "I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined."




Roger Glover (bassist): "The classic rock thing doesn't really apply anywhere else in the world except the States."

 Rod Evans (vocalist 1968 - 1969): "Ritchie was obsessed to be a guitarist like Clapton or Beck and to be a star."

Jon Lord (keyboards): "Ritchie thought of Deep Purple. There was a song in the forties by that name, and it was Ritchie's grandmother's favorite song."

Nick Simper (bassist 1968 - 1969): "There is very little music that is new or exciting being created, which has led to increased demand for the older acts who know how to deliver."

David Coverdale (vocalist 1973 - 1976): "I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago."

Glenn Hughes (bassist 1973 - 1976): " Am I the man who killed Deep Purple? I don't think so."

Andy Warhol Quotes

I am a deeply superficial person."

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."

"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

"I have a social disease. I have to go out every night."

 "Success is when the checks don't bounce."

"I like the taste of the last chocolate in the box."

 "Land really is the best art."

"When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships."

"If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art."

"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own."

"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to."

"In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."

Velvet Underground Quotes

Lou Reed: "I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine."

Maureen Tucker: "When I was playing with the Velvets, I was playing with a group of friends."

Sterling Morrison: "Anybody who needs Bob Dylan to tell him which way the wind is blowing is a serious mental defective."

Lou Reed: "I didn't get in it for the money, and I'm the same way now. I do it for me. Because I like doing it."


John Cale: "If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it."

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

Nico: "I don't think about the future, I can't think further than tomorrow morning...at the most. I leave that to somebody else."

Sterling Morrison: "I like the Doors. I like Jim Morrison, but for different reasons probably than you people think you like the Doors. I like Jim Morrison, he's real nice."

John Cale: "The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience."

Lou Reed: "I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future."

John Cale: "I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past."

Depeche Mode Quotes

Dave Gahan: "I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel."

Martin Gore: "I don't think I've ever tried to be anything other than a weirdo."

Dave Gahan: "I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community."

Andrew Fletcher: "I'm a musician but on the street nobody will recognize me."

Vince Clarke: "In my teens I loved Genesis when Gabriel was in the band, also later actually as well, I was a big Genesis fan."

Dave Gahan: "There's no more record stores. In New York I've watched them slowly disappear."

Andrew Fletcher: "As far as I'm concerned, you can call Depeche Mode also a corporation."

Vince Clarke: "I've got four copies of Dark Side Of The Moon, two of which are unopened."

Martin Gore: "Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out."

Vince Clarke: "A possibility to create a melody you will remember and sing inside in your soul. This is what music is for me, not the sound itself."

Martin Gore: "It was so exciting to go to the record shop and buy a piece of vinyl and hold it, read the liner notes, look at the pictures. Even the smell of the vinyl."

Dave Gahan: "What drives you is to make a great record. That's what still drives me."

Neil Diamond Quotes

"Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything."

"I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part."

"Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest."

"When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery."

"Songs are life in 80 words or less."

"I like having a woman. I like having someone to come home to, to make all the hard work feel worth it."


"Love is the elixir of eternal youth."

"It's very difficult to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier."

"I'm not there to entertain people. We're there to do something together."

"Songwriting is what I do."

Best Rocky Horror Picture Show Quotes

The Criminologist: "I would like, If I may, to take you on a strange journey."

Frank: "Do you think I made a mistake splitting his brain between the two of them?"

Janet: "If only we were amongst friends...or sane persons!"

Brad (To Janet); "If there's one fool for you, then I am it."

Frank: "It's not easy having a good time! Even smiling makes my face ache."

The Criminologist: "And crawling, on the planet's face, some insects, called the human race. Lost in time, and lost in space...and meaning."


Janet: "Didn't we pass a castle back down the road a few miles? Maybe they have a telephone I might use."

The Criminologist: "A night out...It was a night out they were going to remember for a very long time."

Brad (To Janet): "I really loved the skillful way you beat the other girls to the bride's bouquet."

Frank: "Don't dream it, be it."

Great Women Of Rock

Aretha Franklin: "I'm a big woman. I need big hair."

Tina Turner: "Physical strength in a woman...that's what I am."

Alanis Morissette: "What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are."

Liz Phair: "You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage."

Linda Ronstadt: "I have always believed that one learns more from failure than from success."

Sinead O'Connor: "You cannot be a poppy in a tsunami. The more delicate and fragile you are, the tougher you have to act."

Belinda Carlisle: "I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me."

Bonnie Raitt: "I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool."

Chrissie Hynde: "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."

Annie Lennox: "I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free."

Joan Jett: "Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything."

Maria Muldaur: "I've been told 'Midnight At The Oasis' has been responsible for the conception of more children than any other song of the 70's."

Cher: "The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing, and then marry him."

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

Funny Quotes From The Blues Brothers Movie

Jake: We're putting the band back together."

Elwood: "Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail me now."

Woman: "Are you the police?" Elwood: "No ma'am. We're musicians."

Mrs. Murphy Aretha Franklin: "We got two honkies out there dressed like Hasidic diamond merchants."

Elwood: "What kind of music do you usually have here? Woman: "Oh, we got both kinds. We got country AND western."

Jake: "Your women. I want to buy your women. The little girl, your daughters...sell them to me. Sell me your children."

Jake: "Uh, Bob, about the money for tonight." Bob: "Oh, yeah, $200, and you boys drank $300 worth of beer."

Elwood: "It's a hundred and six miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses." Jake: "Hit it."

Jake: "Maury, you got to come through for us. We need $5,000 fast." Maury: "$5,000? Who do you think you are, the Beatles?"

Elwood: "We're on a mission from God!"

Great Quotes About Little Richard

Etta James : "He was the biggest of them all. And he knew it...he wanted everyone to call him King Richard."

Paul McCartney: "I love his voice and I always wanted to sing like him."

Mick Jagger: "Little Richard is the originator and my first idol."

Jimi Hendrix: "I want to do with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice."


Smokey Robinson: "Little Richard is the beginning of rock and roll."

Rod Stewart: "The first rock and roll record I listen to was The Girl Can't Help It by Little Richard."

Paul Simon: "When I was in high school I wanted to be like Little Richard."

Keith Richards: "The most exciting moment of my life was appearing on the same stage as Little Richard."

Elton John: "Little Richard's records were the best rock and roll records."

Michael Jackson: "James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of people."

Quincy Jones: "Little Richard was not only a giant but a pioneer of the so-called rock and roll music industry."

David Bowie: "After hearing Little Richard on record, I bought a saxophone and came into the music business. Little Richard was my inspiration."

Wilson Pickett: "Little Richard is the architect of rock and roll."

Pat Boone: "No one has been imitated more than Little Richard."

Little Richard Quotes

"I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life."

"Elvis may be the king of rock and roll, but I am the queen."

"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."

"I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength."

"Rock and roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt."




"A lot of people call me the architect of rock and roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true."

"I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention."

"He was an integrator, Elvis was a blessing. They wouldn't let black music through. He opened the door for black music."

"I gave the Beatles their first tour - I took them to Hamburg before they ever made a record. I gave Mick Jagger his first tour in this country. James Brown was with me. I put Joe Tex in business."

"The grass may be greener on the other side but it's just as hard to cut."

"It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves."

Barbra Streisand Quotes

"I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn."

"You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it."

"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress."

"There is nothing more important in life than love."

"I can take any truth; just don't lie to me."



"It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman."

"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?"

"Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society."

"My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough."

"Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out."

"I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong."

"When I sing, people shut up."

Great Quotes About Chuck Berry

John Lennon: "If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry."

Bob Seger: "All of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks."

Anthony Kiedis: "Chuck Berry is a musical scientist who discovered a cure for the blues."

Joan Jett: "The epitome of what it is to be a rock and roll guitar player, songwriter and singer."

Eric Burdon: "I learned more from Chuck Berry about America than I could have from the U.S. Information Service in London."

Joe Cocker: "Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis...you know in the 60's."

Keith Richards: "You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern."

Johnny Ramone: "I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I like Chuck Berry."

Ronnie Wood: "I used to sit by the record player and copy Chuck Berry and the Beatles."

Chuck D: "I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zepplins and Bostons and Peter Framptons.

Stevie Wonder: "There's only one true king of rock and roll. His name is Chuck Berry."

Chuck Berry Quotes

"I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint."

"Rock is my child and my grandfather."

"I was going to be famous if it killed me."

"Praise don't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself."

"I would sing the blues if I had the blues."

"I've always liked words. I even like some words that aren't in the dictionary."

"Play the songs they want to hear. That makes them feel they're getting what they came for."

"I wouldn't buy one of my records to save my life."


"Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or will be."

"A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics."

"Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two."

Great Quotes From Robert Smith Of The Cure

"If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you."

"I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me."

"Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist."

"I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston."

"I have never like Morrissey, and I still don't."


"I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made."

"Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years."

"I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap."

"My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible."

"I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop."

"No, come to think of it, I don't think the cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to."

Bonnie Raitt Quotes

"I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters."

"I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star."

"I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool."

"One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful."

"My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad."

"The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes."

"I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me."

"Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life."

"I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist."

"I have a really full life, both within music and outside it."

Joan Baez Quotes

"Someone had to change the world, And obviously I was the one for the job."

"I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war."

"Action is the antidote to despair."

"I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins."

"The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one."

"The era in which I came on the scene was a ten year period of exceptional talent. I mean, nobody could top Dylan; they've been trying for years. Nobody can really top John Lennon."

"It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page."

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now."

"As long as one keeps searching, the answers come."

Great Quotes About Woodstock

Wavy Gravy: "Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for four hundred thousand."

Richie Havens: "Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration."

Grace Slick: "It was big. Half a million people doesn't necessarily mean something is good. It just means it's big."

Wavy Gravy: "There's always a little bit of heaven in a disaster area."

Edgar Winter: "But  when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way."

Johnny Rivers: "Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick."

John Fogerty: "We were ready to rock out and we waited and waited and finally it was our turn...there were a half million people asleep."

Joan Baez: "I knew I was singing to a city."

Wavy Gravy: "We must be in heaven, man!"

Dick Clark Quotes

"I don't make culture. I sell it."

"I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them."

"Age ain't got nothing to do with how old you are."

"If you fall down, get up and walk again. If you can't walk, crawl. If that idea fails, have another one."


"Award shows are the variety shows now because there are no more variety shows."

"My greatest asset in life was I never lost touch with hot dogs, hamburgers, going to the fair and hanging out at the mall."

"I'm a case study for a type A personality. I have a short attention span, I love activity, I'm into all sorts of strange and wonderful things."

"American Bandstand was the original reality show. It was an open window on a world of kids that people didn't know about."

"Music is the soundtrack of your life."

Great Quotes From Freddie Mercury And Queen

Freddie Mercury: "Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name."

Brian May: "I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good."

Roger Taylor: "People are still today trying to imitate Led Zepplin, America is full of drummers trying to play like John Bonham."

John Deacon: "I probably was the only person in the band who could get a look from the outside, because I was the last to join."

Roger Taylor: "I think maybe we were subconsciously influenced by the Beatles' albums, I think really, especially the later ones, like Rubber Soul, Revolver and Abbey Road."



Brian May: "I don't think anybody comes close to the Beatles, including Oasis."

John Deacon: "Arguments are healthy. They clear the air."

Freddie Mercury: "we've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen."

Brian May: "The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind."

Roger Taylor: "We had a joke that we wanted to be the biggest. It was a joke, but underneath, it was really true. Number one is much better than number two."

Brian May: "Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of the guitar changes radically.

John Deacon: "Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together."

Freddie Mercury: "I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend."

Funny Beatles Movie Quotes

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (1964)

Reporter: "How did you find America?" John: "Turn Left at Greenland."

John: "We know how to behave! We've had lessons."

Man On Train: "Don't take that tone with me, young man. I fought the war for your sort." Ringo: "I bet you're sorry you won."



Reporter: "What would you call that hairstyle you're wearing? George: "Arthur."

HELP! (1965)

Paul: "My skin's soaked right through to the skin!"

George: (Discovering a bomb) "Hey, It's a thingie! A fiendish thingie!"

Ringo: "What was it that first attracted you to me?" John: "Well, you're very polite, aren't you?"

John: (To Scotland Yard) "The Great Train Robbery, eh? How's that going?"

MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (1967)

Ringo: "Would you stop with your sitting down!"

YELLOW SUBMARINE (1968)

Ringo: "Nothing ever happens to me. I'd jump in the river Mersey but it looks like rain."

Ringo: "Liverpool can be a lonely place on a Saturday night, and this is only Thursday morning."

LET IT BE (1970)

John: "I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we pass the audition."

Rob Zombie Quotes

"I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes."

"Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy."

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does."

"Growing up I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee."

"Good horror movies are great, but I just like good movies. I don't just watch grade Z garbage."

"It would be so cool to do something like, I don't know, 'The Return Of Frankenstein' but you do it so that the monster looks like it did in all the original Universal films."

"Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid."

"White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it."

"It's never been about making money."

Quotes From Ann & Nancy Wilson Of Heart

Nancy: "The lightning bolt came out of the heavens and struck Ann and me the first time we saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show."

Ann: "Led Zepplin, you can't find a better band to pay tribute to."

Nancy: "The effect of music is huge. It is so human, yet it is beyond human."

Ann: "Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band."

Nancy: "Our ideal of sexuality was much more natural, like nymphs running through the woods."

Ann: "I like the White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now."


Nancy: "A dream set would include songs by other artists like Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, and other favorites."

Ann: "Separating business from family is never completely possible since Nancy and I run the family business."

Nancy: "Joni Mitchell became a huge influence on us. But it wasn't till after the initial Beatles explosion that you started seeing women come forward as their own songwriters."

Ann: "I never get tired of being with Nancy, and the older I get, the more I love her company, musical and otherwise."

Leonard Cohen Quotes

"Music is the emotional life of most people."

"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act."

"The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show."

"I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write."



"If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often."

"There is no difference between a poem and a song."

"Except the people you happen to fall in love with."

"Suzanne is about a girl I know. She's great but she's half crazy."

"When you walk on stage and five thousand people have paid good money to hear you, there's definitely a sense you can blow it."

"In hindsight, it seems like the height of folly - I'll take care of my financial problems by becoming a singer."

"The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes."

Bryan Adams Quotes

"I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut."

"I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me."

"A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime."

"Focus on your music and not technology."

"I wish I could write the songs I wrote back when I was twenty-two. But I don't know how to do that anymore."

"There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team."

"I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to."

"If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media."

"I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else."

Go-Go's Quotes

Belinda Carlisle: "I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me."

Jane Wiedlin: "I love being a Go-Go. It definitely has it's ups and downs, and we have a very intense energy with each other."


Charlotte Caffey: "I felt like an ordinary person having an extraordinary experience."

Gina Schock: "The true American success story, that's what the whole thing really is."

Kathy Valentine: "I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it."

Belinda Carlisle: "You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable and to be viable as a woman."

Jane Wiedlin: I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to 60's pop music, like the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff."

Gina Schock: "When I joined the band, they were more just having fun and were doing what everybody else was doing in L.A., all their buddies had started bands, they had just picked up their instruments."

Kathy Valentine: "We always have a good time playing, and I'm glad it shows."

Jane Wiedlin: "If I was in charge, I'd keep doing the Go-Go's forever, but it's a band, so everyone has their say."

Red Hot Chili Peppers Quotes

Anthony Kiedis: "I have a few friends that I think that I think would go to bat for me no matter what. Flea is one of them."

Flea: "For me, music was the only reason I went to school."

Chad Smith: "I'm a musician. It's what I do. I wouldn't be too good at anything else."

John Frusciante: "We have the ability to change our own reality."

John Frusciante: "I'm not really a star-oriented kind of guy."

Anthony Kiedis: "If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer."

Chad Smith: "I enjoy being somewhat anonymous and only being recognised by real fans of our band."

Flea: "Any instrument is just a vehicle to express who you are and your relationship to the world."

John Frusciante: "Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things."

Anthony Kiedis: "What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends."

Chad Smith: "Have a good time all the time."

Queen Latifah Quotes

"My mom has always been my champion."

"A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion."

"I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day."

"Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it."

"Always follow your own path."

"My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home."

"I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally."

"New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis To Bon Jovi, To Frank Sinatra."

"When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music."

"Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self."

"Every woman is a Queen, and we all have different things to offer."

LL Cool J Quotes

"Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you."

"You can't let your past hold your future hostage."

"I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing."

"I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic."

"Nobody is perfect, but life is about choices."

"Do what you love; you'll be better at it. It sounds pretty simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't get this one right away."

"I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist."

To me, my peers are Bruce Springsteen and Mick Jagger. I'm not talking age-wise, but in terms of careers. Madonna. Those are my peers. And I'm okay with that."

"Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it."

"Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals."

"I only do what what comes from the heart."

Funny Quotes From The Movie Grease

Leo: "The rules are...there ain't no rules."

Principal McGee: "If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter."

Vince: "It doesn't matter if you win or lose, it's what you do with your dancing shoes."

Kenickie: "You've got the personality of a wet mop."


Rizzo: "I feel like a deficient typewriter...I skipped a period."

Danny: "You can't just walk out of a drive-in."

Putzie: "The only thing that hangs around you Sonny are the flies."

Danny: "Uh. I'm not very hungry; just give me a double Polar Burger with everything and a cherry soda with chocolate ice cream."

Principal McGee: "We have pictures of you so-called mooners. And just because the pictures aren't of your faces doesn't mean we can't identify you."

Kenickie: "A hickie from Kenickie is like a Hallmark card, when you only care enough to send the very best."

Danny: "That's my name, don't wear it out."

Funniest Spinal Tap Quotes

David St. Hubbins: "Well, I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation."

Nigel Tufnel: "We've got armadillos in our trousers. It's really quite frightening."

David St. Hubbins: "Dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It's just not really widely reported."




Mick Shrimpton: "As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll."

Nigel Tufnel: "You can't really dust for vomit."

Marty DiBergi: "This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, 'What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too?'"

David St. Hubbins: "I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human than someone who doesn't believe anything."

Nigel Tufnel: "It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black."

Derek Smalls: "That's not to say I haven't had my visionary moments. I've taken acid seventy...five, seventy-six times."

David St. Hubbins: "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever."

Quotes From British Invasion Rock Stars

Mick Jagger: "The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either."

Peter Noone: "Everybody gets to a stage when it's time to move on."

Marianne Faithful: "Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive."

Steve Winwood: "To make a living from doing something I love is fantastic. As long as people want to listen to me, I'll keep doing it."

Eric Clapton: "The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life."

 Roger Daltrey: "Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records." 

Eric Clapton: "The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life."

Petula Clark: "There are definitely people who are stuck in the sixties and there are definitely people who think I am and it's just not true."

Eric Burdon: "Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it."

Ray Davies: "If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done."

John Lennon: "If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal."

Hip-Hop Quotes

Eminem: "Life is a crazy ride, nothing is guaranteed."

LL Cool J: "Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals."

Flavor Flav: "I got a lot happening, a whole lot, and it's not always easy being me."

Queen Latifah: "Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self."


Lil Wayne: "I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album."

Kanye West: "I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in."

Lil' Kim: "I love being the underdog sometimes."

Jay-Z: "Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way."

Chuck D: "Downloadable music is the biggest phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that."

Snoop Dogg : "I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it."

Ice Cube: "Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you."

Slash Quotes

"I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since."

"I always knew I wanted to be in a band."

 "If I could hang out with Jimi Hendrix, it wouldn't be over dinner."

"Guitars are like women. You'll never get them totally right."

"Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence."




"I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do."

"As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion."

"I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage."

"Axel and I came from completely different backgrounds. Because of that we made an interesting pair trying to figure each other out."

"It was success that screwed us up."

"I don't believe in having regrets."

"Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know."

Ten Defining Beatles Moments

1. Paul McCartney Meets John Lennon  July 6, 1957

2. Brian Epstein "discovers" the Beatles  November 9, 1961

3. The Beatles Meet George Martin

4. Ringo joins The Beatles

5. Beatles Royal Command Performance November 4, 1963. The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret are in attendance.

6. The release of I Want To Hold Your Hand in the U.S.  December 26, 1963. On January 16, 1964 the single reaches no. 1 on the Billboard charts.

7. The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show February 9 1964. The largest TV audience in history.

8. The release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Album: Considered by many to be the greatest album (and album cover) ever.

9. The Beatles perform on the Abbey Road studios rooftop January 30 1969: the last time they play live together.

10. The Beatles sign break up papers. John Lennon is the last to sign, officially ending the group, on December 29, 1974.

Axel Rose Quotes

"My favorite cartoon characters are Metallica and Slash."

"There was a time when we were way more glam. I had the hair and full makeup and everything."

"I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a Great White or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot."

"Aerosmith are a tradition that I grew up with. They were the only band that the people who lived in my city in Indiana would accept wearing make-up and dressed cool."

"In a world he did not create, he will go through it as if it were his own. Half man, half beast, I don't know what it is but it's weird and it's pissed off and calls itself Slash."


"I used to use the Internet a lot, but I got tired of reading all the garbage on there about me. The Internet is just a huge garbage can."

"At times I enjoy writing and at other times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel."

"I've really learned to control myself. It used to be that I would get mad, break everything in the room, smack somebody in the face and then leave. Now I work real hard at trying to keep things cool and together."

"I guess I like who I am now. I'd like to have a little more internal peace. I'm sure everybody would."

"Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way."

Famous Guitarists Who Named Their Guitar

B.B. King - Lucille: A black Gibson ES-355.

Edward Van Halen - Freankenstrat: Rebuilt stratocaster named after the Frankenstein monster, a creature made up from many different bodies.

George Harrison - Lucy: A Gibson Les Paul given to him by Eric Clapton.

Brian May - Red Special: Custom built, also called The Old Lady.


Eric Clapton - Blackie: Fender Stratocaster auctioned off in 2004 to raise money for his Crossroads addiction recovery center.

Billy Gibbons: 1959 Gibson Les Paul.

 Neil Young - Old Black: Gibson Les Paul.

Willie Nelson - Trigger: A Martin N-20 acoustic guitar.

Bo Diddley - Twang Machine: Custom built "cigar box" guitar. Later produced by Gretsch.

Prince - Cloud: Custom built guitar used during the Purple Rain era.

Keith Richards - Micawber: 1953 Fender Telecaster. Named after a character in Charles Dicken's David Copperfield.

Stevie Ray Vaughn - First Wife: 1963 Fender Stratocaster with a 1962 neck.

Tony Iommi - Monkey:  1965 Gibson SG.

Yngwie Malmsteen - Duck: 1971 Fender Stratocaster which had a Donald Duck sticker on it.

Belinda Carlisle quotes

"I didn't want to be the singer. I wanted to play bass."

"I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me."

"I'm not super, super, super successful and I don't want to be. I'm not a prisoner of my success."

"The eighties were a time of excess in a lot of ways."

"I'm really fed up with whole media thing where you have to be 20 years old, a size 0, and blond with plastic tits."


(About The Go-Go's) "It was a Cinderella story, we didn't even know how to play our own instruments."

(About Madonna) "I think she's a pioneer in her own way in terms of using her sexuality, individuality, in a very positive way, I think. She does a great job."

"I freaked out when I first went on my solo tour. I realized I was on stage without the girls."

"You can't stay up there forever. The peak of my career is over - that was back in the eighties and early nineties."

Shania Twain Quotes

"I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know."

"I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain."

"Now that I have and I'm not a have-not, I've learned how important it is to maintain humility."

"I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared."

"I'm not going to be somebody who wants to hold on to my fame for the rest of my life."



"All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond."

"I find that the very things I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that is making me successful."

"Ultimately, I am responsible for how I live my life now, and what I make out of it."

"Nothing of my present or my future will ever take away what I had in the past, ever."

"When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best.That's the way I've always lived my life."

Edward Van Halen Quotes

"I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood."

"I'm a musician, Dave's a rock star."

"We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters."

"Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone."

"It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different."

"I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix."

"Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me."

"The piano ia a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument."

"I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things."

"The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone."

"As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool."

Quotes About John Lennon

Kurt Cobain: "John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down."

Kevin Spacey: "Growing up, to me, he was a hero."

Meatloaf: "I met Elvis and John Lennon and I was an idiot. A complete moron."

Gary Oldman: "If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon."


Moby: "If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it."

Joey Ramone: "To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people."

Esai Morales: "I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father."

Cynthia Lennon: "John was in constant need of proof of love and security and he was constantly testing people for that proof."

Rick Nielson (Cheap Trick): "Even to this day, if it would have been, 'Hey Rick, you get to play with Elvis, you get to play with Paul McCartney, you get to play with Mick Jagger, or you get to play with John Lennon.' John Lennon is the only one I would have picked out of that bunch."

Peter Fonda: "I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does."

Bono Quotes

"Music can change the world because it can change people."

"My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them."

"I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first."

"U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing."

"I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused."

"It's much easier to be successful than to be relevant."

"Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom."

"Great ideas and great melodies have a lot in common."

"I really remember John Lennon's Imagine. I guess I'm twelve; that's one of my first albums. That really set fire to me. It was like he was whispering in your ear - his ideas of what's possible."

"U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help."

"Great music is written by people who are either running toward or away from God."

"Look, I'm sick of Bono and I AM Bono."

George Martin Quotes

"At the beginning, my speciality was the introductions and the endings, and any instrumental passages in the middle."

"If there is one person I would have to select as a living genius of pop music, it would be Brian Wilson."

"Ringo always got and still gets a unique sound out of his drums, a sound as distinctive as his voice."



"The turning point probably came with the song Yesterday. That was when, as I can see in retrospect, I started to leave my hallmark on the music."

"Imagine my delight when I discovered that the sound of a chicken clucking at the end of Good Morning was remarkably like the guitar sound at the beginning of Sgt. Pepper (reprise)."

"With iPods, mini-recorders and all the new technology, people can lie in their bath and make a rock record."

"Looking back on Pepper, it was quite an icon. It probably did change the face of recording so it became a different kind of art form."

"Gradually, things changed. The boys went into their little spheres and there was more of a rivalry brewing between John and Paul."

"A producer's role is still a mystery to most music listeners, isn't it?"

"You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along."

Ramones Quotes

Joey: "I enjoyed my life when I had nothing...and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me."

Johnny: "My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are."

Dee Dee: "I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock."

Johnny: "Radio is like television, all they want to do is push crap on the public."

Tommy: "We were trying to bring back fun music, bring back the essence of rock 'n' roll."

Johnny: "Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne."


Joey: "To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people."

Dee Dee: "Part of the privilege of being in a band is giving something back to the young people. If you can do anything for them, you should."

Tommy: "I think Paul Mccartney used to call himself Paul Ramon when he checked into hotels, and Dee Dee was a big Paul McCartney fan. He thought it was a laugh."

Joey: "The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it."

Johnny: "We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression."

Joey: "Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world."

Green Day Quotes

Billy Joe Armstrong: "Punk has always been about doing things your own way."

Tre Cool: "Everyone is entitled to our opinion."

Mike Dirnt: "When I was a kid, my influences were just my early friends' punk rock bands and listening to the radio."

Billy Joe Armstrong: "Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything."

Tre Cool: "I always said the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone."

Mike Dirnt: "It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now."


Billy Joe Armstrong: "I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine."

Mike Dirnt: "We were up to the challenge. We're probably the best Green Day type band there is out there."

Billy Joe Armstrong: "We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think."

Tre Cool: "We're Green Day. We can do whatever we want."

Cheap Trick Quotes

Robin Zander: "Music is religion, it's a spiritual thing that transcends everything."

Tom Petersson: "My all-time favorite live record is The Who Live At Leeds. I think that's unbeatable."

Bun E. Carlos: "I'm class of 1969. My favorite bands were The Beatles, Rolling Stones and DC5...then The Who, Jimi Hendrix and Cream."



Robin Zander: "One of the reasons we're called Cheap Trick is because there was a performance of Slade, and Tom looked at Rick or Rick looked at Tom and said something like 'These guys use every cheap trick in the book.'"

Rick Nielsen: "Our band is rock n roll. We were never just a studio band trying to make everything perfect. It was never supposed to be perfect. It was supposed to be cool."

Robin Zander: "When you're young and you don't know any better, getting signed to a major label is what you're after. But you're not really prepared for the business aspect of getting ripped off, because that's what's going to happen."

Rick Nielsen: "Even to this day, if it would have been, 'Hey Rick, you get to play with Elvis, you get to play with Paul McCartney, you get to play with Mick Jagger, or you get to play with John Lennon.' John Lennon is the only one I would have picked out of that bunch."

Bun E. Carlos: "I grew up in a musical family and I had an older brother and sister that would play music all the tim
e."

Marilyn Manson Quotes

"Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture."

"If things are too perfect, people are always so afraid that it's going to change, so they ruin it themselves."

"I wasn't born with enough middle fingers."

"A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do."

"There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that."




"I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out of my shyness."

"The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at."

"If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends."

"I just try to make people think. I don't try to shock them or scare them. I just try and get them to question."

"Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference."

"In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show."

Alanis Morissette Quotes

"I happened to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old."

"The ego is a fascinating monster."

"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament."

"The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss."

"I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true."

"The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing."



"A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance."

"What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are."

"Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell."

"I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it."