Category: Bands and Music Quotes

Hayley Williams Quotes

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

“We’re so fortunate, we just don’t get it. We’ve been really blessed, and we’re trying to not to take it for granted.” – Hayley Williams Quotes

“I think all of us, at some point early on in our lives, knew that we wanted to create music. We are still really young and sometimes we do feel like we have to prove we’re as great as all the rest of the bands -old and young. But we just do what we love and people seem to be really excited about it.” – Hayley Williams Quotes

“I mean, we did feel nervous, starting out, but I wouldn’t say it was hard. We just did what we loved and thankfully it worked out for the best.” – Hayley Williams Quotes

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.” – Hayley Williams Quotes

“The thing is, our generation, we fight every day to get through life.” – Hayley Williams Quotes

“What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they’re going home to and what they’re dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we’re their escape.” – Hayley Williams Quotes

“Be Unforgettable.” – Hayley Williams Quotes

Jimi Hendrix Quotes

Posted on June 16, 2011June 16, 2011 by

Are you looking for some great Jimi Hendrix Quotes? You’ve found the right place for that. Enjoy your stay :)

All I’m gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

All I’m writing is just what I feel, that’s all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

I don’t have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might’ve unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

I wish they’d had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would’ve been straightened out.

I’m gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.

If I’m free, it’s because I’m always running.

If it was up to me, there wouldn’t be no such thing as the establishment.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Les Paul Quotes

Posted on June 9, 2011June 12, 2011 by

I have younger friends who don’t work, and they aren’t doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.

I used my mother’s radio as a PA system. I’d take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.

I Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist – whatever.

One minute we’re over here, the next minute we’re doing something completely different. But it’s interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn’t do with analog.

We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn’t go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

Quote of the day

Posted on April 10, 2011 by

“Don’t ever let your mind stop you from having a good time” – Jason Mraz

Jim Morrison Quotes

Posted on January 29, 2011 by

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

What the people want, is they want a artist or a band to come along that’s just totally casting aside all the past and all the business associations. To give the impression ‘were doing this for a reason’ not because we are out here to make a lot of bread

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just…in between. I want the freedom to try everything

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being, with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

That’s what real love amounts to,letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act

If I had it, to do it all over again, I think I would have gone more for the quiet, undemonstrative, little artist plotting away in his own gardening

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors

I drink so I can talk to assholes

Where’s your will to be weird?

Really it was a lifestyle that was on trial more than any specific incident.

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It’s their security…How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don’t really want to be free?

There was a great renaissance of spirit and emotion and revolutionary sentiment. When things didn’t change overnight, I think people resented the fact that that we were still around doing good music.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps “Oh look at that!” Then- whoosh, and I’m gone…and they’ll never see anything like it ever again… and they won’t be able to forget me- ever.

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them.
Obviously that can only work at moments. It can’t be a lasting thing.
That’s not saying that people shouldn’t keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Who knows, someday we might conquer death

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you’re doing something.

As I understand it, paranoia’s defined as an irrational fear. But what if the paranoia is real?

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences

Eminem Quotes

Posted on January 23, 2011January 23, 2011 by

“Try to strip me of my credibility and make me look fake, G you only gonna be in for a rude awakening.” – Eminem – Never Enough Lyrics

“See regardless of what anybody believes who hates me; you ain’t gonna make or break me.” – Eminem – Never Enough Lyrics

“Believe it or not, I thank my mom for how she raised me in a neighborhood daily to jump and chase me. It only made me what I am today.” – Eminem – Never Enough Lyrics

“I’m thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I’m thankful for the environment that he placed me.” – Eminem – Never Enough Lyrics

“I’m so tired of this, I could blow. Fire in the hole.” – Eminem – On Fire Lyrics

“Tryin’ to give me the finger is kinda like givin’ the spider the web. I’m just gonna spin and try to use it to my advantage. I catch a fly in that bitch. You think you fly, you just food.” – Eminem – Despicable Lyrics

“When I die, so does hip hop.” – Eminem – Despicable Lyrics

“Ain’t nothin but a whole lot of suckin’ goin’ on in rap.” – Eminem – Despicable Lyrics

“You know, I don’t know this about me or not, but I’m kind of a big deal.” – Eminem tells Shade 45

“But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave, out the window. Guess that’s why they call it window pane.” – Eminem – Love the Way you Lie Lyrics

“You don’t get another chance. Life is no Nintendo game.” – Eminem – Love the Way you Lie Lyrics

“As long as the wrong feels right – it’s like I’m in flight.” – Eminem – Love the Way you Lie Lyrics

“And all those who look down on me I’m tearing down your balcony.” – Eminem – Not Afraid Lyrics

“What you think, I’m doing this for me, so f— the world.” – Eminem – Not Afraid Lyrics

“Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.” – Eminem

“You’ve got enemies? Good. That means you actually stood up for something in your life.” – Eminem
Have you ever loved someone so much, you’d give an arm for?
Not the expression, no, literally give an arm for?
When they know they’re your heart
And you know you were their armour
And you will destroy anyone who would try to harm ‘her
But what happens when karma, turns right around and bites you?
And everything you stand for, turns on you, despite you?” – Eminem (Lyrics: When I’m Gone)

“Don’t let them say you ain’t beautiful. They can all get f***ed, just stay true to you.” – Eminem (Lyrics: Beautiful)
“But I know one fact: I’ll be one tough act to follow.” – Eminem (Lyrics: Beautiful)

“I act like shit don’t phase me, inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive.” – Eminem

“I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.” – Eminem

“There was a while when I was feeling like, “Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this”.” – Eminem

“I try not to look at it that way; being white. I don’t wake up every day and look in the mirror, “Oh. I’m white”.” – Eminem

“I don’t like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over, I’d hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don’t think it was necessarily ’cause I’m stupid. I didn’t go to school. I couldn’t deal.” – Eminem

“Sometimes I’m real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that.” – Eminem

“Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.” – Eminem

“I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and N.W.A. and I never went out and shot nobody.” – Eminem

“Never take ecstasy, beer, baccardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it difficult to sleep at night.” – Eminem

“A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I’m joking and when I’m serious.” – Eminem

“Don’t do drugs, don`t have unprotected sex, don’t be violent. Leave that to me.” – Eminem

“I don’t like rap anyways, I`m just trying to get my porno career started.” – Eminem

“I had nothing to lose, but something to gain.” – Eminem

Music Quotes

Posted on January 14, 2011January 15, 2011 by

– “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music” – Sergei Rachmaninov

– “A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” – Leopold Stokowski

– “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Berthold Auerbach

– “All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!” – Thomas Carlyle

– “If the King loves music, it is well with the land.” – Mencius

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

– “Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

– “If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.” – Gustav Mahler

– “Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?” – Michael Torke

– “He who sings scares away his woes.” – Cervantes

– “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” – Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name

– “Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.” – Benjamin Disraeli

– “Music is what feelings sound like.” – Unknown

Mike Dirnt from Green Day Quotes

Posted on December 29, 2010 by

– “Sublime really annoys me, well the singer does. It’s ok to party, it’s ok to take drugs and have fun but don’t die! Don’t die! Party and go on but don’t die! That’s the rule. He died. We all party, but we don’t die.”
– “Punk is no longer a four-letter word. It’s a three-letter word now.”
– “All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.”
– “Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.”
– “Green Day is like sex, when were good, were really good, when were bad … were still pretty damn good.”
– “Leave me alone. I’m just the bass player.”
– “You ain’t never gonna get satisfied, and once you’re there, you’ll be unsatisfied.”
– “Musicians make music, technicians make techno.”
– “If you haven’t travelled all over the United States or anything, you don’t have to because I did it for you. And it all looks like a hockey arena.”
– “I can’t figure out how to get on it.” – on Napster

– “We’re validating our insanity.”

– “I think we get hurt less than most people, if they lived like us.”

– “I kind of look at it as a percentage of how much stupid stuff we actually do.”

– “It’s too hard to mime and do the dance moves at the same time.” – on bands
that lip-sync during concerts

– “Selling out is compromising your musical intentions, and we don’t know how to do that.”

– “If you can say the word dookie you can keep in touch with the child within.”

– “If Canadians could vote in the states, maybe we wouldn’t have such a fucking stupid president.”

– “If my kid didn’t rebel, she wouldn’t be my kid.”

– “I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.”

– “It’ll sound pretty cocky, but I’m already in my favourite band.”

– “We’re not gazillionaires, but we’re pretty damn close!”

– “If you can make yourself a happy person, then you’re giving to the world.”

– “Don’t blame me for the explosion of punk rock. I didn’t know our music was going to get that big.”

– “Then all of a sudden we got introduced to punk music and it was the coolest fucking thing!”

– “A lot of shows on that tour had to be cancelled because the crowds got too big.” – 1994 tour

– “We grew up in Berkeley, which is the fucking methampheamine capital of California.”

– “I’ll always remember 1994 as the year that… ate shit.”

– “We personally believe that dogs are going to take over the world. And when they do, they’re gonna hit everyone with shit.”

– “I told Billie, let’s just take it as far as we can. Eventually we’ll lose all the money and everything else, anyway. Let’s just make sure we have one great big story at the end. I think we will. In a lot of ways we already do.”

– “Your just mad cuz you’re in the rain, well fuck you! I hope it rains so much you get stuck!”

– “If you’re wondering why I’m not wearing shoes.. it’s cuz one fell out of the van yesterday.. I’m not a fucking hippy!”

– “I was one of those kids who’d walk around the neighbourhood and talk to the adults and learn a lot. I’m good with people.”

– “Go in your older brother’s closet and learn something, man.”

– “I wanna see everyone. And everyone, and everyone.”

Abba Quotes

Posted on December 19, 2010 by

“I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it’s really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.” – Agnetha Faltskog

“I had a dream and it was fulfilled by meeting with Benny, Bjorn and Agnetha.” – Anni-Frid Lyngstad

“We don’t want to write political songs. We don’t want to turn our records into speeches.” – Benny Andersson

“There’s a real melancholy in [Abba’s] songs… all the flourishes, like big double octaves on the piano. We stole them like crazy.” – Elvis Costello

“I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it’s my stuff.” – Lasse Hallstrom

“I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.” – Elaine Paige

“I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.” – Pete Waterman

“I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.” – Martin Fry

“You’re not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It’s nerdy.” – Izabella Scorupco

Dizzy Gillespie Quotes

Posted on October 21, 2010 by

Let’s celebrate Dizzy Gillespie‘s birthday with some great quotes.

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don’t you ask him? And besides, maybe we’d all like to be like Miles, and just haven’t got the guts.

I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we’re here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It’s time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It’s time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.

I’d like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

Men have died for this music. You can’t get more serious than that.

They’re not particular about whether you’re playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.