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."