Category: Music Quotes

Bob Geldof

‘You can’t trust politicians. It doesn’t matter who makes a political speech. It’s all lies…and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.’

Neil Young

‘Heart of Gold put me in the middle of the road. Travelling there soon became a bore so I headed for the ditch. A rougher ride, but I saw more interesting people there.’

Ice Cube

‘If I’m more of an influence to your son as a rapper than you are as a father…you got to look at yourself as a parent.’

Lou Reed 2

‘I don’t know why I bother really, because people don’t listen to rock n roll lyrics too much.’

Rod Stewart

‘Sometimes a woman can really persuade you to make an asshole of yourself’

Marvin Gaye

‘I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don’t quite know how to explain it but it’s there. These can’t be the only notes in the world, there’s got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the crack’

Joe Meek

‘I wanted to create a picture in music of what could be up there in outer space.’

Lester Bangs

‘The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience’

Dave Grohl

‘Going out and playing music – that’s what I do. I don’t do much else.’