Rock Musicians Quotes

• I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

  Elvis Presley

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)

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• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Life, Music, Beautiful

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  When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Rock's always been the devil's music.

  David Bowie

  Rocks, Devil, Satanic

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• We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

  John Lennon

  Music, Jesus, Rocks

  Interview with Maureen Cleave in Evening Standard 4 Mar. 1966. Cf. Zelda Fitzgerald

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• Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Writing, Humor

  Quoted in Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 1978

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• You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.

  David Lee Roth

  Sex, Hippie, Rocks

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• Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care." To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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• The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

  James Daly

  Rocks, People, Musician

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• That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Rocks, Musician, Rock Music

  Source: collider.com

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• Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.

  Robert Plant

  Rocks, Leaving, Musician

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• Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

  Roger Daltrey

  Teenager, Rocks, Support

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• A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

  Nick Cave

  Rocks, Careers, Musician

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• Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

  Sean Lennon

  Growing Up, Rocks, Musician

  Interview with Matt Nye, www.pifmagazine.com. January 1999.

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• All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

  Marc Bolan

  Rocks, Musician, Sound

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• There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material.

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Past, Rocks

  "Sir Paul has just written manure for years", www.scotsman.com. July 2, 2002.

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• There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

  Ian Anderson

  Taken, Rocks, Musician

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• Rock musicians are consistent in their disdain and irreverent treatment of Jesus Christ.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Tim F. LaHaye, Beverly LaHaye (1995). “The Spirit-Filled Family”, Harvest House Pub

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• I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.

  Steve Vai

  Successful, Rocks, Insane

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

  Wayne Coyne

  Art, Thinking, Rocks

  "Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Talks ATP". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. August 27, 2009.

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• I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

  Hank Azaria

  Rocks, Magic, Special

  "The Hilarious Hank Azaria". Interview with Kathryn Hahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2014.

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• Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food

  Steve Albini

  Rocks, Cooking, Musician

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• I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.

  Eric Avery

  Rocks, Long, Guy

  "Jane's addiction ex=bassist Eric Avery recovers with Solo Lp, calls Billy Morgan 'inspiring'" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. December 26, 2007.

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• I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.

  Ken Hensley

  Rocks, Together, Musician

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• A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

  Travis Barker

  Thinking, Rocks, People

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