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Famous quotes by Musicians

"Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject"
Freddie Mercury, Musician
Freddie Mercury
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"So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing"
Crystal Gayle, Musician
Crystal Gayle
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"Country is not what you heard on the Grammys"
Crystal Gayle, Musician
Crystal Gayle
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"Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed"
Crystal Gayle, Musician
Crystal Gayle
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"All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer"
Crystal Gayle, Musician
Crystal Gayle
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"You're either in it for the long haul or you're not"
Crystal Gayle, Musician
Crystal Gayle
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"Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all!"
Kurt Cobain, Musician
Kurt Cobain
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"Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it"
Tom Lehrer, Musician
Tom Lehrer
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"People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions"
Robert Plant, Musician
Robert Plant
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"How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?"
Robert Plant, Musician
Robert Plant
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"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day"
Frank Sinatra, Musician
Frank Sinatra
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"Cock your hat - angles are attitudes"
Frank Sinatra, Musician
Frank Sinatra
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"For me, music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again"
Paula Cole, Musician
Paula Cole
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"Just watching my cats can make me happy"
Paula Cole, Musician
Paula Cole
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"We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be"
Amy Lee, Musician
Amy Lee
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"I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised"
Amy Lee, Musician
Amy Lee
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"What we play is life"
Louis Armstrong, Musician
Louis Armstrong
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"Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star"
Amy Lee, Musician
Amy Lee
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"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them"
Louis Armstrong, Musician
Louis Armstrong
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"Gossip is the Devil's radio"
George Harrison, Musician
George Harrison
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"I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown"
Jennifer Lopez, Musician
Jennifer Lopez
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"Women are the real architects of society"
Cher, Musician
Cher
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"The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!"
Layne Staley, Musician
Layne Staley
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"I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face"
Leonard Cohen, Musician
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"We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being"
Lenny Kravitz, Musician
Lenny Kravitz
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"How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man"
Johnny Cash, Musician
Johnny Cash
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"I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker"
Eminem, Musician
Eminem
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"Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards"
Keith Richards, Musician
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"If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?"
Joan Baez, Musician
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"I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane"
Taylor Swift, Musician
Taylor Swift
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