Topic: Favorite musician quotes (Read 13956 times)

JodyAnthony · « **on:** 12 Jun 2006, 09:55 »

not from songs, just things musicians have said that really interested you.

here's mine:

John Lennon once commented: "If you tried to give Rock & Roll another name, you might try calling it Chuck Berry"

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #1 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 10:10 »

"May your shit come alive and kiss you in the face"

-- Frank Zappa

Kai · « **Reply #2 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 10:54 »

"The real question is: Is it possible to laugh while fucking?"
-Frank Zappa

"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."
-Frank Zappa

"If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they're gonna murder you in your sleep...."
-Frank Zappa

"Some people crave baseball -- I find this unfathomable -- but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing a bassoon."
-Frank Zappa

I could totally go on for ever.

Praeserpium Machinarum · « **Reply #3 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 11:02 »

"Has God been on yet?"

Scott Walker, arriving late to the movie The Bible in 1966

"If any of them punk rockers gets near my drum kit I shall kick’em square in the knackers!"

Keith Moon

Hat · « **Reply #4 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 11:19 »

On the Zappa theme:

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."

"Rock journalism is mainly people who can't write, interviewing people who can't speak, for people who can't read."

Also there was another one, somehting about something is not something. Something is not something. Something is not music. Music is the best but I can't seem to remember it for the life of me.

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #5 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 11:26 »

"Shit can be beautiful - the proof is in the pearl."

I don't remember who, but I think it's one of the sex pistols.

Also:

"Friends don't let friends cut their hair." - Mike Inez bass guitar during Alice In Chains Unplugged, about Metallica.

Misereatur · « **Reply #6 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 11:47 »

John Coltrane: "When I improvise, I just can't stop. How can I stop?"
Miles Davis: "Just take out your mouth piece"

Or somthing along those lines.

FeralCats · « **Reply #7 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 11:57 »

Quote

Also there was another one, somehting about something is not something. Something is not something. Something is not music. Music is the best but I can't seem to remember it for the life of me.

"Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not Truth.
Truth is not Beauty.
Beauty is not Love.
Love is not Music.
Music is the best."

That's the famous part, but it goes on to say
"'Beauty is a french phonetic corruption of a short cloth
neck ornament currently in resurgence."

Kai · « **Reply #8 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 12:29 »

Quote from: Hat

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."

I actually have that quote on a shirt. It is pretty ace.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #9 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 13:00 »

"we wanted to be the band that if we moved in next door to you, your lawn would die."
-someone from motorhead

"i believe i am the highest power, absolutely."
-gg allin

"if i wasnt a musician, i would be a serial killer."
-gg allin

Thrillho · « **Reply #10 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 13:01 »

Quote from: Shaun Ryder

I'm not a role model. Raise your own fucking kids.

pat101 · « **Reply #11 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 14:01 »

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

- Bob Dylan

Thrillho · « **Reply #12 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 14:07 »

Bob Dylan has so many awesome quotes.

Quote from: Bob Dylan, when asked what his motivation was

Ladies' undergarments.

vivouk · « **Reply #13 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 14:31 »

Quote

The ‘60s are bullshit! ‘70s— almost big, big bullshit. ‘80s— I don’t even need to tell you, except for The Smiths, maybe. Get out of it. Shit’s happening now. It’s all about now. Now, now, now! Bigger, faster, sweatier, skinnier, whiter, blacker, gracer.

Jeff Buckley.

Also:

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There's two kinds of music: good and bad. I like both.

Duke Ellington

papercutsuicide · « **Reply #14 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 14:39 »

“I'm so happy because today I found my friends- they're in my head”
kurt cobain

“Vandelism is as beautiful as a rock in a cop's face.”
kurt cobain

“All I can do is be me, whoever that is.”
bob dylan

“Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?”
freddie mercury

"SHAARON!!"
ozzy osbourne

“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”
frank zappa

Praeserpium Machinarum · « **Reply #15 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 14:49 »

"I don't know if honesty is an issue in show business. People don't care whether you're telling the truth or not, they just want to be told something they don't already know. Make me laugh or make me cry, it doesn't matter. If you're watching a really bad movie and somebody turns to you and says, "You know, this is a true story," does it improve the film in any way? Not really. It's still a bad movie."
-Tom Waits

and I love this one:

"I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, “You’ll come to a wall you won’t be able to get through.” So I said, “I’ll beat my head against that wall."
-John Cage

redbeardjim · « **Reply #16 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 17:27 »

"I don't mind all the dumb blonde jokes, because I know that I'm not dumb -- and I also know that I'm not blonde."

-- Dolly Parton

Inlander · « **Reply #17 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 20:50 »

"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song."

- Louis Armstrong.

"It takes a lot of money to look this cheap."

- Dolly Parton.

Atrocity Exhibition · « **Reply #18 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 22:04 »

"I believe, as I have always believed, that beauty is that which the bourgeoisie name 'ugly' "

- Morrissey

RallyMonkey · « **Reply #19 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 22:08 »

"Asking a musician to describe their music is like asking an author to describe her latest book in a guitar solo."

- We Are Scientists

Johnny C · « **Reply #20 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 22:19 »

Quote from: Iggy Pop

Mainly I helped to erase The Sixties.

Fortnight · « **Reply #21 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 23:42 »

"I can't see shit!"

- Ray Charles

La Creme · « **Reply #22 on:** 13 Jun 2006, 00:18 »

Quote from: vivouk

Also:
Quote
There's two kinds of music: good and bad. I like both.

Duke Ellington

I really like that.

"For every prohibition you create you also create an underground."
- Jello Biafri

"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"
- David Byrne

"Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity."
- Greg Lake

sketchyjoe · « **Reply #23 on:** 13 Jun 2006, 01:26 »

"If you play more than two chords, you're showing off"

- Woody Guthrie

FeralCats · « **Reply #24 on:** 13 Jun 2006, 03:40 »

Sorry to break it to you, but that one's NOT a Frank Zappa original. Saying a quote like that has been around since at LEAST Debussy's time, and most likely earlier.

Kai · « **Reply #25 on:** 13 Jun 2006, 05:36 »

Frank Zappa said everything first. He just goes through time and says things before everyone else can.

vivouk · « **Reply #26 on:** 13 Jun 2006, 05:56 »

Quote from: Kai

Frank Zappa said everything first. He just goes through time and says things before everyone else can.

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #27 on:** 13 Jun 2006, 07:14 »

Mr. E of the Eels on Kurt Cobain posthumously published diaries:

"Please don't do this to me after I kill myself."

pinkpiche · « **Reply #28 on:** 13 Jun 2006, 07:23 »

Thom Yorke

"Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there."

Lummer · « **Reply #29 on:** 13 Jun 2006, 07:53 »

"This song is about work. Work fucking sucks"

Brent Hinds..

thedevilissix · « **Reply #30 on:** 13 Jun 2006, 13:40 »

"The blues isn't about feeling better. It's about making other people feel WORSE, and making a few bucks while you're at it!"

- Bleedin' Gums Murphy.

JodyAnthony · « **Reply #31 on:** 13 Jun 2006, 13:45 »

Quote from: thedevilissix

"The blues isn't about feeling better. It's about making other people feel WORSE, and making a few bucks while you're at it!"

- Bleedin' Gums Murphy.

You win the thread.

Kai · « **Reply #32 on:** 13 Jun 2006, 14:47 »

Seriously.

pat101 · « **Reply #33 on:** 13 Jun 2006, 20:13 »

done and done

Son Gotom · « **Reply #34 on:** 13 Jun 2006, 20:40 »

"Limp Bizkit sucks dick."

-Zakk Wylde

thedevilissix · « **Reply #35 on:** 14 Jun 2006, 05:46 »

Thank you times three.

Another good 'un I found recently:

Quote

"I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good-I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing. "

- Muddy Waters.

Tago Mago · « **Reply #36 on:** 14 Jun 2006, 13:51 »

"Oh man, sorry to hear about your old man."

-Chet Baker, upon meeting Romano Mussolini, son of the late Italian Dictator, Benito Mussolini.

Misereatur · « **Reply #37 on:** 15 Jun 2006, 05:48 »

"Chords and key signatures are just excess baggage, let's throw them overboard"

-Joe Henderson, in a conversation with Charlie Haden before their concert in Festival International de Jazz de Montreal in Quebec, 1989.
Pretty much one of the best Jazz concerts I hav ever heard.

toolazytothinkupaname · « **Reply #38 on:** 15 Jun 2006, 14:43 »

Quote from: redbeardjim

"I don't mind all the dumb blonde jokes, because I know that I'm not dumb -- and I also know that I'm not blonde."

-- Dolly Parton

And people say she's just a big pair of tits.

Staticouch · « **Reply #39 on:** 16 Jun 2006, 01:46 »

If music were a woman, I'd be desperate to fuck her. - Mikael Åkerfeldt

Inlander · « **Reply #40 on:** 16 Jun 2006, 02:04 »

Quote from: toolazytothinkupaname

Quote from: redbeardjim
"I don't mind all the dumb blonde jokes, because I know that I'm not dumb -- and I also know that I'm not blonde."

-- Dolly Parton

And people say she's just a big pair of tits.

Only stupid people.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #41 on:** 16 Jun 2006, 13:36 »

Interviewer: "Are you afriad that doing this will blow your rock star image?"

Josh Homme: "I think people should start lining up to blow it right now."

I might not ahve that verbatim, but it was perfect.

Kai · « **Reply #42 on:** 16 Jun 2006, 18:13 »

Interviewer: "So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?"
Frank Zappa: "You have a wooden leg, does that make you a table?"

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Author Topic: Favorite musician quotes (Read 13956 times)

JodyAnthony

Praeserpium Machinarum

TrueNeutral

vivouk

papercutsuicide

Praeserpium Machinarum

Atrocity Exhibition

Fortnight

La Creme

vivouk

TrueNeutral

thedevilissix

JodyAnthony

Son Gotom

thedevilissix

toolazytothinkupaname

Staticouch