Famous quotes by Musicians

"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"Actually, I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"Love cannot save you from your own fate"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head"

Elvis Presley, Musician

"I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play"

Elvis Presley, Musician

"I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story"

Elvis Presley, Musician

"Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning"

Elvis Presley, Musician

"There's someone in my head, but it's not me"

Pink Floyd, Musician

"Money, it's a gas. Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash"

Pink Floyd, Musician

"The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime"

Pink Floyd, Musician

"The lunatic is in my head"

Pink Floyd, Musician

"As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks"

Neil Young, Musician

"The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together"

Neil Young, Musician

"I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger"

Neil Young, Musician

"I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say"

Neil Young, Musician

"Listen to the sound of silence"

Paul Simon, Musician

"I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them, and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives"

Paul Simon, Musician

"My favourite sport is cheerleading!"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth"

John Lennon, Musician

"I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding"

John Lennon, Musician

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot"

John Lennon, Musician

"All you need is love"

John Lennon, Musician

"Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry"

John Lennon, Musician

"These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again"

John Lennon, Musician

"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it"

John Lennon, Musician

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow"

John Lennon, Musician

"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal"

John Lennon, Musician

"You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?"

Oscar Hammerstein II, Musician

"Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s"

Sheryl Crow, Musician

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