Famous quotes by Musicians

"I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I"

Janis Joplin, Musician

"Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl"

Janis Joplin, Musician

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got"

Janis Joplin, Musician

"I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while"

Sting, Musician

"The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems"

Billy Joel, Musician

"You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians"

David Lee Roth, Musician

"In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard"

Billy Joel, Musician

"Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens"

Ville Valo, Musician

"Some genres I'm not a huge fan of, but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention"

Ville Valo, Musician

"Art is always criticized, and always an outsider gets the blame"

Ville Valo, Musician

"I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day"

Ville Valo, Musician

"I used to jog, but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass"

David Lee Roth, Musician

"I don't like singing before noon"

Sting, Musician

"You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live"

Joan Baez, Musician

"I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?"

Joan Baez, Musician

"I've got asthma. When I was 17, I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that, I've taken better care of my illness"

Ville Valo, Musician

"I have never acted in one, and I'm not at all interested to do so either"

Ville Valo, Musician

"Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day, so, if people are interested, they can hear it, but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done"

Ville Valo, Musician

"Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence"

Joan Baez, Musician

"Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great"

Kenny Rogers, Musician

"We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money"

Ville Valo, Musician

"Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations"

Neil Peart, Musician

"If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum"

Neil Peart, Musician

"I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria"

Sting, Musician

"If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect"

Brian Eno, Musician

"I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there"

Brian Eno, Musician

"I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there"

Brian Eno, Musician

"Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others"

Brian Eno, Musician

"I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter"

Billy Joel, Musician

"I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld"

Billy Joel, Musician

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