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Nick Cave Quote

“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ and the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers”

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“I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.” – David Bowie

“Without music, life would be a mistake” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.” – Billy Joel

“The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.” – Roy Ayers

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” – Frank Zappa

In a recent interview with Rob Halford of Judas Priest, he states that a straight man couldn’t do his job. Here’s his entire quote:

“I love Priest more than anything, so while always in my mind — I have to be careful how I say this — it’s not important to the music. Though I will say, a straight man can’t do my job [laughs]. That’s the way I view it. Freddie [Mercury] said it wasn’t important, but if Freddie hadn’t have been gay, Queen would’ve been a totally different band. But that’s a really important part of my life that I have to get down on paper at some point.”

“Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.” – John Lennon

“Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.”

“After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the fuck I was going to do with my life.”
― Jeff Beck

“Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don’t get it.” -Liam Gallagher

“… We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us — certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us — that’s the important thing.”

Jerry Garcia – The Grateful Dead

“You don’t need any brains to listen to music”

Luciano Pavarotti

“You can’t have rock and roll without drugs, you can’t have rock and roll without sex.”

When you sit down and think about what rock ‘n’ roll music really is, then you have to change that question.  Played up-tempo, you call it rock ‘n’ roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

Little Richard