Who said what? You will be surprised at some of these quotes. Then again, maybe not!
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- 50 Cent - I shot people. I ain't gonna tell you who.
- Adam Clayton - A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
- Adam Clayton - If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
- Adam Clayton - It was like - throw out technology. Give us a microphone and a bit of tape and you do the bit in between.
- Adam Clayton - Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
- Bill Ayerbe - I want to be respected on both sides of the coin.....as a pop violinist and as a classical violinist.
- Bill Ayerbe - You can build a technique but you cannot build musicianship.
- Bill Wyman, The Rolling Stones - I've had more girls than any of the other Stones- more than all of them put together probably.
- Bill Wyman, The Rolling Stones - It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing.
- Billy Joel - I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
- Bob Dylan - The sound of my own voice - I can't get used to it, never have. Makes you wanna hide.
- Bob Dylan - Woodstock wasn't about anything. It was just a whole new market for tie-dye tee-shirts. All those people are in computers now.
- 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.
- Bono - I have never tried to write this thing called a song that's played on radios all around the world, that window-cleaners hum, that people listen to in traffic jams. I was never interested
in song: U2 came about through a sound.
- Bono - My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono - People say we take ourselves too seriously and I might have to plead guilty to that. But I don't take myself seriously, we don't take ourselves seriously - but
we do take the music seriously.
- Bono - Rock ‘n’ roll is like pulling back your rib cage and showing people your heart. It’s not about wearing the right shoes.
- Bono - The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono - To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono - We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono - We're in this position - I think it's our duty to abuse it.
- Bono - When I was 14 I looked like a freckled baked bean.
- Britney Spears - Some of my outfits in the videos are so tight, I can’t wear underwear.
- Charlie Watts, The Rolling Stones - I think I was the only rock star never to wear a pair of beads.
- Charlie Watts, The Rolling Stones - Take it from me that most of those groupie stories are just fantasies.
- Chester Bennington, Linkin ParkI'm a regular guy, you know? I shit, I piss, I drink too much and throw up, just like everybody else.
- Chris Martin, Coldplay - I think people who don’t like us are immensely strange.
- Chris Martin, Coldplay - It seems surreal that we're going to play concerts again, because I haven't met anyone who likes us for two years.
- Corey Taylor, Slipknot - My mask is on it’s last legs. It’s getting pretty gross, there’s puke, blood, snot, everything.
- Corey Taylor, Slipknot - We like to play dominoes before a show.
- David Gray - That record companies are crap, insane, huge and messy non-decision making entanglements is just a fact. That's not the reason why things don't work. You've
got to make the right record.
- 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.
- Edge - The greatest threat to the career of this band, or any other band, is financial success.
- Edge - We would have broken up years ago if there'd been any pansies in the band.
- Edge - What ever you do, do not get into a car with Bono. He's not great at the old driving.
- Elvis Presley - I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
- Frank Sinatra - I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
- Fred Durst, Limp Bizkit - I'm not a rock star, I'm a businessman.
- Gwen Stefani, No Doubt - I told my mom I was going to be on tour for three months. And then we didn't come home for two and a half years.
- Jennifer Lopez - It was a bit rough, to say the least...but the Bronx is everything I am.
- Jessica Simpson - Having sex on my wedding night was the most amazing moment of my life. I couldn’t believe I’d let myself miss out for so long.
- Jessica Simpson - Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platy-ma-pus. Has it changed?
- Joe Strummer, The Clash - I've smoked so much pot, I'm surprised I haven’t turned into a bush.
- John Lennon - As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
- John Lennon - Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. We’re more popular then Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was alright, but his disciples
were thick and ordinary.
- John Lennon - I basically became a musician because of Elvis Presley.
- John Lennon -Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
- John Lennon -You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
- John Lydon, former Sex Pistol - I think rock and roll is media manipulation and exploitation and corruptness and bullshit.
- Justin Timberlake - I kiss people with my soul, I don't kiss them with my mouth.
- Justin Timberlake - I met Madonna and she was so confident. To me, she's the sexiest woman on the planet.
- Justin Timberlake - I'm just a very passionate person in everything I do. I really believe that whenever you do something you should put everything into it; otherwise, it's really not
worth it.
- Keith Richards - I used to be a choir boy in Westminster abbey, a soloist, then my voice broke. That was my first training in showbiz.
- Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones - I know a few groovy middle-aged people, but not many.
- Larry Mullen - I joined a band to hit things.
- Larry Mullen - It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a
small island off the South Pacific.
- Larry Mullen - Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such a charismatic character that he
was in the band anyway, as soon as he arrived. I was in charge for the first five minutes, but as soon as Bono got there, I was out of a job.
- Larry Mullen - There were no jobs to get. It was like we were all going nowhere, so we decided to go nowhere together and form a band.
- Michael Stipe - I shudder to think that I might still be playing in stadiums when I’m 51, like the Stones.
- Michael Stipe - In our heads, we’re punk. You don’t have to sound like the Sex Pistols to be punk.
- Mick Jagger - I will still compose, sing and play as long as I can. I hope even in my seventies.
- Mick Jagger - Rock & roll's not over. I don't see one thing end until I see another beginning. Like when you break up with a woman. D'ya know what I mean?
- Mick Jagger - The Clash sound is so old-fashioned to me. I quite like The Clash, I don’t mind them, I’m very old-fashioned too.
- Morrissey, The Smiths - I wish there were other songwriters I could claim kinship with, but there is no-one. I consider myself to be a genius.
- Ozzy Osbourne - There’s nothing I wouldn’t do if it’s a laugh. Except listen to the Smiths.
- Paddy Gibney - I live in a dry spell. I think I will write a song about it.
- Paddy Gibney - Songs come into your life in various ways, whether they are originals or covers. I just wait for them to show up.
- Paddy Gibney - The goal is to make a difference, a positive difference. I feel that way about my entire life.
- Paul McCartney - He was playing with a couple of fellows (John Lennon), and I asked if I could join in. That's how it started, really.
- Paul McCartney - I decided I'd like to enter art college if we flopped in show business.
- Paul McCartney - I'm telling you, this substance cannabis is a whole lot less harmful than rum punch, whisky, nicotine or glue - all of which are perfectly legal. I would like to see it
decriminalised.
- Paul McCartney - Songwriting was like sex to me. I didn’t like to do it in front of other people.
- Peter Tork, The Monkees - The main trouble with money is that it ties you down. I miss the poverty I had before.
- Robert Smith, The Cure - I always smudge my lipstick nudging the microphone with my lips.
- Rod Stewart - When I finally do get put under the thumb, I’ll be incredibly faithful and all that.
- Sting - I did say I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this includes four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.
- Sting - I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.
- Sting - It would be false for me to be modest. I believe I'm a great singer and a great songwriter.
- Sting - There's no religion but sex and music.
- Van Morrison - In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
- Van Morrison - Music is spiritual. The music business is not.