Tupac Shakur Quotes

"Everybody's at war with different things. I'm at war with my own heart sometimes."

"There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me."

"I'll probably be punished for hard living."

"Even the genius asks questions."

"Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel."



"I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man."

"I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable."

"During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams."

"I just don't know how to deal with so  many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life."

"For every dark night, there's a brighter day."

"With all my fans I got a family again."

Meat Loaf Quotes

"I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast."

"Performers only go wacko when they fall from grace if they like the adulation more than the work."

I met Elvis and John Lennon and I was an idiot. A complete moron."


"You know, people think I named myself Meat Loaf, even though I didn't. And they think anyone who would name himself Meat Loaf couldn't have an IQ higher than four."

"I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting."

I listen to everything just to see what they're all doing. I really do. I listen to 50 Cent, to Faith Hill, because I want to know what everybody's doing, I just want to hear it."

"You can decide what you want to eat for dinner, you can decide to go away for the weekend, and you can decide what clothes you're going to wear in the morning, but when it comes to artistic things, there's never a rhyme or reason. It's, like, they just happen. And they happen when they happen."

"You do not measure success by sales or dollars and cents. It is measured by the work, how you feel, and did you give everything you had?"

"There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life."

"I'm not built to be a celebrity."

Kid Rock Quotes

"I always believed it would happened and stuck to my guns."

"Detroit: cars and rock & roll. Not a bad combo."

"I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow."


"I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that."

"If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If it's marketed right, you'll buy it. But if it's real, you'll feel it."

"I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop."

"You know, America loves the underdog and I'm no longer the underdog, so if people are going to start taking shots at me, I'm ready."

"I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from."

"I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do."

ZZ Top Quotes

Billy Gibbons: "Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree."

Billy Gibbons: "The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential."

Dusty Hill: "I promise you, if we did 'Fly Me To The Moon' it would still sound like ZZ Top. It's just the way we play."


Billy Gibbons: "The prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film...a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation."

Frank Beard: "Yes. My last name is Beard and I don't have a beard. Next question!"

Billy Gibbons: "This place won't be here tomorrow, so let's tear it down tonight."

Dusty Hill: "For our legacy, I hope people would listen to the body of the work and not just one segment. Most people have their favorites or don't like us at all, and any of that's cool."

Billy Gibbons: "Same three guys, right here. Same three chords right here. And we've been doing this for 35 years."

Billy Gibbons: "Turn on, tune up, rock out."

Def Leppard Quotes

Joe Elliott: "Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together."

Rick Allen: "There's a standard that we never let ourselves go below. We're our own worst critics."

Phil Collen: "We make music for escapism. It's like Star Wars for the Ears."

Rick Savage: "We were not into punk. We were all heavy rock fans before we formed this band."

Steve Clark: "It's an incredible feeling to stand on stage and see so many people getting into your music. I can't imagine there being a more satisfying feeling in the world."

Vivian Campbell: "I don't have to try and be a comedian to fit in the band. It's such a comfortable vibe."

Joe Elliott: "We always had a plan for success. From the very start we've known what we wanted to accomplish. Everything's progressed amazingly."

Rick Allen: "When anything happens to us we always pull together, not only personally but musically."

Phil Collen: "We thought a lot of the heavy metal stuff was ridiculous. And we still do. We didn't want to be Duran Duran either, so we were somewhere in the middle."

Rick Savage: "Being in a band is all about compromise. When everybody can compromise and still feel they're going in the right direction, then you have a happy band."

Phil Collins Quotes

"I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit."

"I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I makes ends meet."

"I mean, I was called the ugliest man since George Orwell. What's that got to do with music? And, by the way, how ugly was George Orwell?"

"I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts."

"There's a lot of stuff there that music critics just don't go for. To them, I'm some kind of landmark of middle-of-the-roadness, or I'm not edgy enough, or I've been around too long to be taken seriously."


"I don't own an Abba album and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic."

(On Peter Gabriel) "As far as I'm concerned he is a far more intellectual writer and person than me, and I have a directness that maybe he hasn't. I love this man and his music very much."

"A lot of the older fans think that Genesis should be a brand name for progressive rock or whatever, but actually Genesis is the name for a group of songwriters who have always done whatever they felt like under that banner."

"I like a fair bit of what the Oasis do. They remind me of Beatles...a great band and I like being reminded of Beatles."

Billy Joel Quotes

"I look in the mirror and I go: you're a rock star? It's funny I don't look like a rock star, I don't walk around thinking like a rock star."

"It's weird you know, the values. Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine yet I'm worth more money than he is."

"I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection."

"More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible."

"I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes."

"The good ol' days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems."


"I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artists."

"Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?"

"If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time."

I've been able to make a living as a musician, and that's the greatest blessing of all. The fame, the wealth, the awards, and all that, that's all gravy."

"I'm just this shlubby guy who plays the piano."