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."

Cher Quotes

"I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage."

"I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me."

"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing, and then marry him."

"In this business it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete."

"If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen."

"I don't like my voice that much. I think I'm a much better actress than singer."


"Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world."

"If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life."

"Don't buy into the idea that women aren't strong enough to do anything they want on their own."

"I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive."

"I haven't a clue why I've lasted so long. There's no reason. There are many people more talented than me. I think it's luck."

Crosby, Stills & Nash Quotes

David Crosby: "We've all been friends for a long time. And when the vibe's good we really have a lot of fun with each other."

Stephen Stills: "I abhorred hippies. That's fair and accurate."

Graham Nash: "If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago."

David Crosby: "We don't take show business or the spotlight seriously."

Stephen Stills: "I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar."

Graham Nash: "With Crosby, Stills and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young...we're very strong individuals, and we want our lives to be led the way we want them to."

David Crosby: "Good music is an end in and of itself. When you're doing it, it's the most fun part."

Stephen Stills: "Over the years I've had other people to please but now I've finally got to play in the way I always wanted to do in the first place."

Graham Nash: "The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked."

George Michael Quotes

"Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart."

"Freddie Mercury was a huge source of inspiration to me as a child."

"If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it."

"I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it. I'm a perfectionist."

"I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important."

"In a strange way I've spent the last 15 to 20 years trying to derail my own career."

"I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really."

"You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart."

"I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do."

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."

Duran Duran Quotes

Andy Taylor: "I'd always felt like being weird, but there was no one to be weird with in Newcastle."

John Taylor: "I met Nick at an institute for waywardly homoerotic teenagers."

Roger Taylor: "Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band."

Simon Le Bon: " That's what a bit of ice cube on the nipple will do fore you."

Nick Rhodes: "The eighties were so inventive because people wanted to stand out. By the time we got to the nineties, everyone wanted to fit in."

John Taylor: "That's how me and Nick became friends...we were both into girls' clothes."

Simon Le Bon: "The greatest musician I know is John Taylor."

Andy Taylor: "They were the biggest bunch of weirdos I'd ever seen."

Nick Rhodes: "I find that the older you get, the more helpful eyeliner is."

Roger Taylor: "I finally got the call from John...about getting the band back together again. It was so out of the blue. I almost thought the moment had passed."