Lou Reed Quotes

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

"I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen."

"One of my rules: Never listen to your old stuff."

"That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say."

"I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think."

"Chuck Berry is still out there playing. No one can play his music like he does. My stuff's the same way."




"Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way."

"I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all."

"I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that."

"My week beats your year."

Fleetwood Mac Quotes

Lindsey Buckingham: "In Fleetwood Mac nothing is certain until you actually see it. But it's up to us to not shoot ourselves in the foot."

Mick Fleetwood: "The value of friends has always been a natural thing. I prefer too many to too few."

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


John McVie: "I'd rather be on the road than in the studio, although on the road I miss my family."

Stevie Nicks: "As a member of Fleetwood Mac, for two weeks I was still working at the restaurant because I'd given them notice. I didn't just want to walk in there and say 'I'm going to be a famous rock star so I quit and I never liked your food anyway.'"

Lindsey Buckingham: "When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making."

Mick Fleetwood: "Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally."

Christine McVie: "We'll never really stop playing with each other unless we really couldn't stand up anymore. We've barely scratched what we're capable of doing."

Stevie Nicks: "My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're
a band of brothers."

Olivia Newton-John Quotes

"There's a rumor going around that I'm Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. well, that's a laugh. I'm really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England."

"When I was a young girl I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet."

"I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself."



"I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young."

"My most treasured possessions are not things, they are only things, my friends, family and animals are what counts."

"There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end."

"I used to get horrible stage fright when I was younger and today I just love to sing for anyone who still turns up at my shows."

"I simply have a marvelous life, a very lucky life."

Tom Petty Quotes

"I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy."

"I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too."

"Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success."

"I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem."

"I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health."

"If you're phony, they will feel it in the farthest row of the arena. You have to really care. And you have to make yourself care time and time again."

"I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there."

"What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back, you have to be a kind of team going through life. That's beautiful, to have that kind of friendship. You're going to need it when you get old."

"Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it."

"Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person."

U2 Quotes

Bono: "I want to play the guitar very badly, and I do play the guitar very badly."

The Edge: "Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month."

Larry Mullen Jr.: "If Bono left we could carry on. If I left we'd be screwed."

Bono: "Everybody argues, then we do what I say."

Adam Clayton: "For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else."

Bono: "The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well."

Larry Mullen Jr.: "We've all made enough money to live for the rest of our lives quite comfortably. that's enough money."

The Edge: "I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar heroes do."

Bono: "U2 is an original species...there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain that  we occupy that is ours and ours alone."

Adam Clayton: "We have a really healthy respect for each other. It's probably taken a little while to get to that point but quite often we'll be digging in the same hole."

The Edge: "People always ask us if we think our songs can really change anything. And I always say that's not why we wrote the songs. We didn;t write them so they would change the situation."

Bono: "As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both."

Police Quotes

Stewart Copeland: "I'm the one member of the group who is the biggest fan of the group."

Sting: "It's my job to sing a song I wrote thirty years ago as if I'd written it in the afternoon."

Stewart Copeland: "When we were young, we had to conquer the world. Now I just enjoy playing my drums. I don't have to worry about making my name in music."

Sting: "Your parents name you, but they haven't a clue who you are. Your friends nickname you because they know exactly who you are."

Andy Summers: "I like to show off onstage, and I enjoy the stardom part as well, but I'm glad that Sting has had all that attention, because he's been a fantastic focal point."

Sting: "Assume you're going to make different mistakes than the ones your parents made with you, because you will."

Andy Summers: "Essentially we were a rock band playing rock songs but I was able to bring in some much more unusual guitar stylings as had been previously heard."

Stewart Copeland: "People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard the Police as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way."

Sting: "Sometimes mediocre poetry becomes incredible song material."

Andy Summers: "I don't have a great nostalgia for the past."

Bob Dylan Quotes

"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent."

"At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage."

"Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything."

"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."

"Swallow your pride, you will not die, it's not poison."


"I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that."

"A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."

"You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in a gas station and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist."

"People can learn everything about me through my songs, if they know where to look."

"I've only written four songs in my whole life, but I've written those four songs a million times."

"All I can do is be me, whoever that is."