Iggy Pop Quotes

"Try to find some ground that hasn't been covered."

"Almost all cool-ass rock front guys are incredibly huge assholes. It would be nice to meet one who wasn't."

"I can't do it all myself. I'm not that kind of artist, I'm the kind of artist who works off other people best."

"Onstage, I've been hit by grapefruit, beer cans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, mandies, Quaaludes, joints, panties, and a fist."

"I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet."

"I don't know Johnny Rotten, but I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did."

"I'm really not good with the pickups. I'm a klutz and don't have a line of gab. I'm only good if they know who I am."

"Before they shot Kennedy, I wanted to be president."

"I have no direction in life whatsoever other than to try and live, be sensible and enjoy myself."

"Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive."

Sex Pistols Quotes

Malcolm McLaren: "The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas."

Johnny Rotten: "If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you."

Sid Vicious: "I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum."

Steve Jones: "We're not into music. We're into chaos."


Johnny Rotten: "The only place I have ever felt truly comfortable is on stage. I still get the nerves and the doubts beforehand, but on stage I feel that's my home."

Glen Matlock: "There was a lot of stuff going down in England at the time. We didn't set out to be deliberately outrageous; we were just pretty forthright."

Sid Vicious: "I don't want to be a junkie for the rest of my life. I don't want to be a junkie at all."

Malcolm McLaren: "Try managing a junkie, especially if you've never been one yourself."

Paul Cook: "What was the most miraculous thing about it all was that at the end we actually got an encore. People wanted more."

Johnny Rotten: "I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine."

Sid Vicious: "In the end I was the only one with any anarchy left in me."

Neil Young Quotes

"I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else."

"Commitments are one of  the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying."

"My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock & roll, and it has an urgency to it."

"I never met Johnny Rotten, but I like what he did to people."

"I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger."

"The sixties was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together."

"When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near."

"Remember when you used to watch TV in the sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock & roll is becoming. It's your parents' music."

"I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master. If I'd like to be anyone, it's him. And he's a great writer, true to his music and done what he feels is the right thing to do for years and years and years."

"I never forgot, that every time a new Beatles or Dylan album came out, you knew they were way beyond it. They were always doing something else, always moving down the line."

"I just do what I do. I like to make music."

John Lydon Quotes

John Lydon AKA Johnny Rotten, lead singer of the Sex Pistols, was one of the Architects of punk music and fashion.

"Chaos was my philosophy. Oh yeah, have no rules. If people start to build fences around you, break out and do something else. You should never, ever be understood completely."

"Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. as soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be."

"I lost Sid, my best and dearest friend, to heroin, and it's not nice. You've got to get away from drugs as escapism. There's nothing you need to run away from yourself as a human being. Quite the opposite. Learn to love thyself and all will be fine."


 "The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records."

"Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max."

"I'm surprised we aren't in jail for treason."

"The only place I have ever felt truly comfortable is on stage. I still get the nerves and the doubts beforehand, but on stage I feel that's my home."

(On Joe Strummer) "I miss him, by the way. There was something really good about him. He had a good little innocent spark in there, a real soul."

(On occupy Wall Street) "They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing the flute."

"I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine."