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."

Great Quotes About Love

Bob Marley: "The most beautiful curve on a woman's body is her smile."

Aretha Franklin: "Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off."

Pat Benetar: "Love is very complicated. It is so complicated and it's so worth it."

Carlos Santana: "There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save."

Jim Morrison: "That's what real love amounts to; letting a person be what he really is."




Sting: "There's no secret to a successful marriage. I love my wife. More important than that, I really like her."

Ice T: "Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place."

Madonna: "To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt."

Stevie Wonder: "Among all the wonderful things we have, we don't seem to have a time to love. And to me that's the fuel, that's the fuel we need to make the engine go."

John Lennon: "It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love
."

Jim Morrison Quote

"Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs."

"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."

"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts."

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are."

"I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think."

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."

"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."

"I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between."

"There are things known and things unknown and in between are the Doors."

"This is the strangest life I've ever known."

Alice Cooper Quotes

"Everybody likes to be scared a little bit."

"I didn't go to my senior prom, but I played it."

"Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player."

"The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller."

"I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife."

"I Loved the Beatles because they wrote such simple songs, which is a really tough thing to do."

"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are."

"Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal."

"When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick."

"They should invent some way to tape record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone."

"(About Frank Zappa) Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison and Pablo Picasso."

"From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans."

27 Club

Musical Stars Who Died At The Age Of 27

Robert Johnson: Blues
man, died Aug. 16, 1938 possibly from strychnine poisoning.

Brian Jones: Guitarist and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Drowned in his swimming pool on July 3, 1969.

Jimi Hendrix: Guitarist. Chocked on his own vomit, Sept. 18, 1970.

Janis Joplin: Lead singer for Big Brother And The Holding Company. Died from a heroin overdose Oct. 4, 1970.

Jim Morrison: Lead Singer For The Doors. Died from heart failure on July 3, 1971.


Peter Ham: Member of the rock group Badfinger. Committed suicide on Apr. 24, 1975.

Kurt Cobain: Lead Singer For Nirvana. Also committed suicide. He died on Apr. 5, 1994.

Amy Winehouse: The Latest member of the 27 club, she died July 23, 2011.