‘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.’
Tag: music quotes
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.’
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’
Bruce Springsteen
‘The verses are the blues, the chorus is the gospel’
Brian Wilson
‘Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you’ll suck forever.’
Denis Leary
‘My biggest regret in life is that I didn’t hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.’
Kurt Cobain (2)
The worst crime in the world is faking it.
Keith Richards (2)
‘I don’t like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned before hand you’ve got to give the band something to use its imagination on as well. That can make a very ordinary song come alive into something totally different, the X-factor – so important in rock and roll – […]
Gram Parsons
‘I think pure country music includes rock and roll .. I’ve never been able to get into the further label of country-rock .. how can you define something like that ? – I just say this: It’s music. Either it’s good or it’s bad; either you like it or you don’t’