I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.
DAVID BOWIE
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"Rock 'n Roll is the most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear."
FRANK SINATRA
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Music journalism is made up of people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
FRANK ZAPPA
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The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.
RICHARD HELL
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Rock n' roll is over, don't you get it? It lasted 25 years and now gets wiped out. The Sex Pistols were the bullet in the brain. They were the last rock and roll band.
JOHNNY LYDON, SEX PISTOLS
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Learn 2 chords and then get a good lawyer before learning the 3rd.
TOMMY IOMMI, BLACK SABATH
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I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.
JOHNNY LYDON, SEX PISTOLS
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I always thought that if I got to 30 doing these things that I'd be ashamed.
ROBERT SMITH, THE CURE
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When I've hit 33 I'll stop. That's the age when one should do something else. I don't want to be a rock-star for all of my life. I couldn't take winding up like Elvis doing Las Vegas with the housewives and old ladies showing up with their shopping bags.
MICK JAGGER, ROLLING STONES - 1972
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Sometimes I don't know what our songs are about.
JIM KERR, SIMPLE MINDS
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It's not worth stomping in the shit to discover what the cow ate.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
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They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes
JIMI HENDRIX
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All it takes is 5 chords, 3 notes, 2 fingers and one asshole to play it.
KIETH RICHARDS, ROLLING STONES
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I'm so god damned horny that the crack of dawn better be careful around me.
TOM WAITS
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Michael Jackson called one of his discs Bad because there wasn't enough space on the cover for Pathetic.
PRINCE
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Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.
DAVID LEE ROTH
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All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.
DAVID CROSBY
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I would've liked that in the good old days they had electric guitars in the cotton fields.
A lot of things would've changed.
JIMI HENDRIX
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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
IGGY POP
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We never would've gotten laid if we hadn't formed the Ramones
JOHNNY RAMONE, THE RAMONES
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In 1965 we sat at a table in a hotel tallied the numbers. From when the band existed, 2 years before, I had 278 girls, Brian 130, Mick 30, Keith 6 and Charlie none.
BILL WYMAN, ROLLING STONES
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I'll never let my daughter go out with that bastard Bill Wyman!
KIETH RICHARDS, ROLLING STONES
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When I was in Japan, I was staying in a monastery. I had a portable CD player and some discs. The monks were curious. I put on Jimi Hendrix. One monk made a strange face and the he said:"I've already heard this 2000 years ago in China.
DAVE STEWART, EURYTHMICS
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The 60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
Abbie Hoffman, American activist
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I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley
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"I'd rather be hated for hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not."
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana
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"Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock."
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana
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I only got seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use.
James Brown
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I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.
James Brown
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Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
James Brown
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They had a chance to see me look good and perform and be so neat again. A lot of young people felt shaken, 'cause there I was, 70 years old, looking half as young as they did!
James Brown
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My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin
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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.
Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin
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"AC/DC's 'Highway To Hell' is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar and content I've ever heard. That's what I aspire to."
Bonnie Raitt
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"I heard that your brain stops growing when you start doing drugs. Let's see, I guess that makes me 19."
Steven Tyler, Aerosmith
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"Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel. People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell."
Michael Jackson
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"There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't."
Annie Lennox, Eurythmics 1990
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
Janis Joplin
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"I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to."
Eric Burdon
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Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.
Bob Dylan
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Mick Jagger is the perfect rock star. There's nobody more perfect than Jagger. He's rude, he's ugly-attractive, he's brilliant. The Rolling Stones are the perfect rock group -- they don't give a ****.
Elton John
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WRITTEN ON A BATHROOM WALL IN NEW ORLEANS
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