Quotes From British Invasion Rock Stars

Mick Jagger: "The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either."

Peter Noone: "Everybody gets to a stage when it's time to move on."

Marianne Faithful: "Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive."

Steve Winwood: "To make a living from doing something I love is fantastic. As long as people want to listen to me, I'll keep doing it."

Eric Clapton: "The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life."

 Roger Daltrey: "Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records." 

Eric Clapton: "The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life."

Petula Clark: "There are definitely people who are stuck in the sixties and there are definitely people who think I am and it's just not true."

Eric Burdon: "Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it."

Ray Davies: "If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done."

John Lennon: "If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal."

Cheap Trick Quotes

Robin Zander: "Music is religion, it's a spiritual thing that transcends everything."

Tom Petersson: "My all-time favorite live record is The Who Live At Leeds. I think that's unbeatable."

Bun E. Carlos: "I'm class of 1969. My favorite bands were The Beatles, Rolling Stones and DC5...then The Who, Jimi Hendrix and Cream."



Robin Zander: "One of the reasons we're called Cheap Trick is because there was a performance of Slade, and Tom looked at Rick or Rick looked at Tom and said something like 'These guys use every cheap trick in the book.'"

Rick Nielsen: "Our band is rock n roll. We were never just a studio band trying to make everything perfect. It was never supposed to be perfect. It was supposed to be cool."

Robin Zander: "When you're young and you don't know any better, getting signed to a major label is what you're after. But you're not really prepared for the business aspect of getting ripped off, because that's what's going to happen."

Rick Nielsen: "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."

Bun E. Carlos: "I grew up in a musical family and I had an older brother and sister that would play music all the tim
e."

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.

Famous Bob Dylan Covers

Peter, Paul & Mary -  Blowin' in The Wind: Dylan's most covered song and this is the most successful version.

The Byrds - Mr. Tamborine Man: Hit number one on the U.S. singles chart in 1965. The Byrds recorded other Dylan songs including "Chimes Of Freedom" and "My Back Pages".

The Turtles - It Ain't Me Babe: Another band who recorded numerous Dylan covers.

Manfred Mann - The Mighty Quinn: Hit #1 on the U.K. singles chart in 1967. This song is also known by the title "Quinn The Eskimo".

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower: Considered one of the greatest cover songs of all time.

Guns N Roses - Knockin' At Heaven's Door: Originally recorded for the "Days Of Thunder" soundtrack.

The Rolling Stones - Like A Rolling Stones: The Stones finally got around to recording this song in 1995.

Biggest British Invasion Bands

The biggest bands that helped make the British invasion of mid-sixties the musical event of the decade.

1. The Beatles: The biggest music act of all time and the first major pop artist to come out of England. The Beatles were responsible for not only changing the musical landscape but pop culture and therefore world culture.

2. The Rolling Stones: Easily the second most successful band to emerge from England during the sixties. After the Beatles broke up in 1970 the Stones continued, earning themselves the nick name "The World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band".

3. The Who: Famous for playing their music loud and smashing their instruments, the Who peaked creatively and commercially with the albums Tommy (1969) and The Who's Next (1971).

4. The Moody Blues: This band became big combining classical music and rock especially on the album Days Of Future Past (1967).

5. The Animals: Second group, after the Beatles, to have a number one single in the U.S. (The House Of The Rising Sun).

6. The Kinks: With songs like You Really Got Me and All Day And All Of The Night, the Kinks were the forefathers of both punk and metal music.

7. The Yardbirds: This group spawned such guitarists as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, giving birth to future mega groups Cream, Derek And The Dominos, Jeff Beck Group and Led Zepplin.

8. The Hollies: The Hollies had hits all through the sixties and into the seventies. One time member Graham Nash quit in the l968 to form the super group Crosby, Stills And Nash (Later Young).

9. The Spencer Davis Group: The Spencer Davis Group had big hits with I'm A Man and Gimme Some Lovin'. Future superstar Steve Winwood was the band's keyboardist, lead singer and main songwriter.

10. Manfred Mann: This group's biggest hit during the sixties was Do Wah Diddy Diddy (Bill Murray sings this song in the movie Stripes). More than a decade later, as Manfred Mann's Earth Band, they had a number one hit with Bruce Springsteen's Blinded By The Light.

Rolling Stones Quotes

Keith Richards: "Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life."

Mick Jagger: "The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either."

Ronnie Wood: "When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy."

Keith Richards: "You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to."

Bill Wyman: "I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on."

Mick Taylor: "I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters."

Keith Richards: "To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you."

Mick Jagger: "People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable."

Ronnie Wood: "Mick says, would you join the band? I say to him, Mick you know I'd be there in a New York minute."

Charlie Watts: "You'd think Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't."

Mick Jagger: "A good thing never ends."

Keith Richards Quotes

"Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters."

"The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do."

"To make a rock & roll record, technology is the least important thing."

"I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself."

"Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get."

"Rock & roll: music for the neck downwards."

"And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and the Beatles. It was very, very friendly."

"I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician."

"I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and a string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere."

"Cold turkey is not so bad after you've done it ten or twelve times."

"I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records."

"You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe,  and you've got the Rolling Stones."

Mick Jagger Quotes

"As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen."

"I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over."

"People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten."



"I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done."

"I've managed to avoid tattoos so far."

"I don't want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags."

"I'm totally anti-nostalgia; I never listen to old Rolling Stones records. I'm not really interested in them. They're funny, sometimes, to hear."

"It's an overwhelming feeling, the audience. That must be why most of these people never give up performing. Because they just can't go without that sort of rush."

"People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Woman for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people."

" The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were. There isn't a real comparison with anyone now."

"I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs."