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."