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
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Marilyn Manson Quotes

"Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture."

"If things are too perfect, people are always so afraid that it's going to change, so they ruin it themselves."

"I wasn't born with enough middle fingers."

"A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do."

"There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that."




"I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out of my shyness."

"The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at."

"If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends."

"I just try to make people think. I don't try to shock them or scare them. I just try and get them to question."

"Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference."

"In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show."

Alanis Morissette Quotes

"I happened to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old."

"The ego is a fascinating monster."

"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament."

"The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss."

"I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true."

"The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing."



"A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance."

"What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are."

"Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell."

"I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it."

Jack White Quotes

"I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan."

"I don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zepplin."

"It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved."

(About Lady Gaga) "I don't think she lives it because it's all artifice. It's all image with no meaning behind it."


"I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That Seems Strange."

"I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age."

"Frank Sinatra was dignified. We don't have a Frank Sinatra, or a Patti Page nowadays. What do we have? Ashlee Simpson instead of Patti Page."

"I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like...I would definitely do that."

"I grew up in the city. I don't think there have been too many musicians who have made it out into the mainstream who are actually from the inner city of Detroit - except for the Motown artists, really."

Pink Quotes

"I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy."

"I've always felt like the underdog, and I'm comfortable with that label."

"I'm about to make people forget about Madonna."

"I'm pretty confident and at the same time I'm pretty insecure. I'm like a walking conflict."

"Everyone has split personalities. You can be strong and vulnerable. Me? I have like 5 or 6. There are many sides to me."

"I  don't live in the Hollywood bubble. I never have and I never will. I wasn't invited to that party.

"Embrace the freak that you are."

"Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun."

"Lots of people don't think women are smart enough, strong enough or independent enough to make it. You just have to prove yourself."

"I just gotta try and take the chance right now and step out on the limb and say 'here you go. here's me and here's my music.' Hope you love it... if not hey. there's always next time cause I'm not going anywhere."

James Brown Quotes

"The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing."

"I want to say to you, help yourself, so you can help someone else."

"I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know."

"I've been knocked down a lot of times."

"Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all."


(About Elvis Presley) "I wasn't just a fan, I was his brother. He said I was good and I said he was good; we never argued about that."

"Disco is James Brown, hip-hop is James Brown, rap is James Brown; you know what I'm saying? You hear all the rappers, 90% of their music is me."

"Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that."

"It doesn't matter how you travel it, It's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, It gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it."

"Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking."

"I don't really care what people think. I just do my own thing, I like being loud and letting people know I'm there."

Liz Phair Quotes

"I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that."

"When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it."

"Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different."

"You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage."

"It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock & roll, which is so blue collar."

"You know what really bugs me about my videos? When they can't figure out what to do, they just have me change clothes five times."

"Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop using something that works."

"I am just like you and everybody else. I am trying to live life as best I can."