Shania Twain Quotes

"I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know."

"I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain."

"Now that I have and I'm not a have-not, I've learned how important it is to maintain humility."

"I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared."

"I'm not going to be somebody who wants to hold on to my fame for the rest of my life."



"All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond."

"I find that the very things I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that is making me successful."

"Ultimately, I am responsible for how I live my life now, and what I make out of it."

"Nothing of my present or my future will ever take away what I had in the past, ever."

"When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best.That's the way I've always lived my life."

Edward Van Halen Quotes

"I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood."

"I'm a musician, Dave's a rock star."

"We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters."

"Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone."

"It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different."

"I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix."

"Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me."

"The piano ia a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument."

"I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things."

"The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone."

"As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool."

Quotes About John Lennon

Kurt Cobain: "John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down."

Kevin Spacey: "Growing up, to me, he was a hero."

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

Gary Oldman: "If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon."


Moby: "If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it."

Joey Ramone: "To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people."

Esai Morales: "I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father."

Cynthia Lennon: "John was in constant need of proof of love and security and he was constantly testing people for that proof."

Rick Nielson (Cheap Trick): "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."

Peter Fonda: "I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does."

Bono Quotes

"Music can change the world because it can change people."

"My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them."

"I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first."

"U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing."

"I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused."

"It's much easier to be successful than to be relevant."

"Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom."

"Great ideas and great melodies have a lot in common."

"I really remember John Lennon's Imagine. I guess I'm twelve; that's one of my first albums. That really set fire to me. It was like he was whispering in your ear - his ideas of what's possible."

"U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help."

"Great music is written by people who are either running toward or away from God."

"Look, I'm sick of Bono and I AM Bono."

George Martin Quotes

"At the beginning, my speciality was the introductions and the endings, and any instrumental passages in the middle."

"If there is one person I would have to select as a living genius of pop music, it would be Brian Wilson."

"Ringo always got and still gets a unique sound out of his drums, a sound as distinctive as his voice."



"The turning point probably came with the song Yesterday. That was when, as I can see in retrospect, I started to leave my hallmark on the music."

"Imagine my delight when I discovered that the sound of a chicken clucking at the end of Good Morning was remarkably like the guitar sound at the beginning of Sgt. Pepper (reprise)."

"With iPods, mini-recorders and all the new technology, people can lie in their bath and make a rock record."

"Looking back on Pepper, it was quite an icon. It probably did change the face of recording so it became a different kind of art form."

"Gradually, things changed. The boys went into their little spheres and there was more of a rivalry brewing between John and Paul."

"A producer's role is still a mystery to most music listeners, isn't it?"

"You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along."

Ramones Quotes

Joey: "I enjoyed my life when I had nothing...and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me."

Johnny: "My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are."

Dee Dee: "I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock."

Johnny: "Radio is like television, all they want to do is push crap on the public."

Tommy: "We were trying to bring back fun music, bring back the essence of rock 'n' roll."

Johnny: "Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne."


Joey: "To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people."

Dee Dee: "Part of the privilege of being in a band is giving something back to the young people. If you can do anything for them, you should."

Tommy: "I think Paul Mccartney used to call himself Paul Ramon when he checked into hotels, and Dee Dee was a big Paul McCartney fan. He thought it was a laugh."

Joey: "The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it."

Johnny: "We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression."

Joey: "Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world."

Green Day Quotes

Billy Joe Armstrong: "Punk has always been about doing things your own way."

Tre Cool: "Everyone is entitled to our opinion."

Mike Dirnt: "When I was a kid, my influences were just my early friends' punk rock bands and listening to the radio."

Billy Joe Armstrong: "Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything."

Tre Cool: "I always said the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone."

Mike Dirnt: "It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now."


Billy Joe Armstrong: "I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine."

Mike Dirnt: "We were up to the challenge. We're probably the best Green Day type band there is out there."

Billy Joe Armstrong: "We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think."

Tre Cool: "We're Green Day. We can do whatever we want."