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."

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."