Andy Warhol Quotes

I am a deeply superficial person."

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."

"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

"I have a social disease. I have to go out every night."

 "Success is when the checks don't bounce."

"I like the taste of the last chocolate in the box."

 "Land really is the best art."

"When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships."

"If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art."

"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own."

"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to."

"In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."

Velvet Underground Quotes

Lou Reed: "I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine."

Maureen Tucker: "When I was playing with the Velvets, I was playing with a group of friends."

Sterling Morrison: "Anybody who needs Bob Dylan to tell him which way the wind is blowing is a serious mental defective."

Lou Reed: "I didn't get in it for the money, and I'm the same way now. I do it for me. Because I like doing it."


John Cale: "If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it."

Lou Reed: "One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz."

Nico: "I don't think about the future, I can't think further than tomorrow morning...at the most. I leave that to somebody else."

Sterling Morrison: "I like the Doors. I like Jim Morrison, but for different reasons probably than you people think you like the Doors. I like Jim Morrison, he's real nice."

John Cale: "The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience."

Lou Reed: "I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future."

John Cale: "I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past."

Depeche Mode Quotes

Dave Gahan: "I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel."

Martin Gore: "I don't think I've ever tried to be anything other than a weirdo."

Dave Gahan: "I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community."

Andrew Fletcher: "I'm a musician but on the street nobody will recognize me."

Vince Clarke: "In my teens I loved Genesis when Gabriel was in the band, also later actually as well, I was a big Genesis fan."

Dave Gahan: "There's no more record stores. In New York I've watched them slowly disappear."

Andrew Fletcher: "As far as I'm concerned, you can call Depeche Mode also a corporation."

Vince Clarke: "I've got four copies of Dark Side Of The Moon, two of which are unopened."

Martin Gore: "Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out."

Vince Clarke: "A possibility to create a melody you will remember and sing inside in your soul. This is what music is for me, not the sound itself."

Martin Gore: "It was so exciting to go to the record shop and buy a piece of vinyl and hold it, read the liner notes, look at the pictures. Even the smell of the vinyl."

Dave Gahan: "What drives you is to make a great record. That's what still drives me."

Neil Diamond Quotes

"Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything."

"I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part."

"Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest."

"When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery."

"Songs are life in 80 words or less."

"I like having a woman. I like having someone to come home to, to make all the hard work feel worth it."


"Love is the elixir of eternal youth."

"It's very difficult to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier."

"I'm not there to entertain people. We're there to do something together."

"Songwriting is what I do."

Best Rocky Horror Picture Show Quotes

The Criminologist: "I would like, If I may, to take you on a strange journey."

Frank: "Do you think I made a mistake splitting his brain between the two of them?"

Janet: "If only we were amongst friends...or sane persons!"

Brad (To Janet); "If there's one fool for you, then I am it."

Frank: "It's not easy having a good time! Even smiling makes my face ache."

The Criminologist: "And crawling, on the planet's face, some insects, called the human race. Lost in time, and lost in space...and meaning."


Janet: "Didn't we pass a castle back down the road a few miles? Maybe they have a telephone I might use."

The Criminologist: "A night out...It was a night out they were going to remember for a very long time."

Brad (To Janet): "I really loved the skillful way you beat the other girls to the bride's bouquet."

Frank: "Don't dream it, be it."

Great Women Of Rock

Aretha Franklin: "I'm a big woman. I need big hair."

Tina Turner: "Physical strength in a woman...that's what I am."

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

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

Linda Ronstadt: "I have always believed that one learns more from failure than from success."

Sinead O'Connor: "You cannot be a poppy in a tsunami. The more delicate and fragile you are, the tougher you have to act."

Belinda Carlisle: "I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me."

Bonnie Raitt: "I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool."

Chrissie Hynde: "I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress."

Annie Lennox: "I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free."

Joan Jett: "Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything."

Maria Muldaur: "I've been told 'Midnight At The Oasis' has been responsible for the conception of more children than any other song of the 70's."

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

Stevie Nicks: "I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that."

Funny Quotes From The Blues Brothers Movie

Jake: We're putting the band back together."

Elwood: "Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail me now."

Woman: "Are you the police?" Elwood: "No ma'am. We're musicians."

Mrs. Murphy Aretha Franklin: "We got two honkies out there dressed like Hasidic diamond merchants."

Elwood: "What kind of music do you usually have here? Woman: "Oh, we got both kinds. We got country AND western."

Jake: "Your women. I want to buy your women. The little girl, your daughters...sell them to me. Sell me your children."

Jake: "Uh, Bob, about the money for tonight." Bob: "Oh, yeah, $200, and you boys drank $300 worth of beer."

Elwood: "It's a hundred and six miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses." Jake: "Hit it."

Jake: "Maury, you got to come through for us. We need $5,000 fast." Maury: "$5,000? Who do you think you are, the Beatles?"

Elwood: "We're on a mission from God!"