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."