“Don’t ever let your mind stop you from having a good time” – Jason Mraz
- “Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.”
- “I’d rather let the music speak for itself.”
- “I’m not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.”
- “It’s probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.”
- “People think our music’s very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it’s just the opposite, really… I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.”
- “Pretending that we live doesn’t make us alive.”
- “The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.”
- “We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.”
- “A friend is nothing but a known enemy.”
- “Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.”
- “I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.”
- “I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.”
- “I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.”
- “I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.”
- “I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.”
- “I won’t eat anything green.”
- “I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
- “I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.”
- “I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.”
- “I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.”
- “If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!”
- “If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.”
- “If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.”
- “It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.”
- “Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.”
- “Rather be dead than cool.”
- “The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”
- “The worst crime is faking it.”
- “A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It’s a theatrica! event.”
- “And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We’re lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.”
- “Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.”
- “But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together.”
- “I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.”
- “I dress to kill, but tastefully.”
- “I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.”
- “I guess I’ve always lived the glamorous life of a star. It’s nothing new – I used to spend down to the last dime.”
- “I have fun with my clothes onstage; it’s not a concert you’re seeing, it’s a fashion show.”
- “I like to be surrounded by splendid things.”
- “I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.”
- “I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.”
- “I was never too keen on the British music press. They’ve called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn’t write our own songs.”
- “I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend.”
- “I’m hopeless with money; I simply spend what I’ve got.”
- “I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear.”
- “I’m not into business at all.”
- “I’m very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years’ time.”
- “If we’re weird onstage, I don’t know what you’d call the Tubes.”
- “In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.”
- “And my goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.” – Michael Jackson
- “In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.” – Michael Jackson
- “The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.” – Michael Jackson
- “If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.” – Michael Jackson
- “I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.” – Michael Jackson
- “People who grew up as child stars have the same thing in common. You’re cute, they love you; you go through the awkward stage, they don’t accept you any more. Very few make the transition to adult star.” – Michael Jackson
- “I believe in my heart that the music community will come together as one and rally to the aid of thousands of innocent victims, … There is a tremendous need for relief dollars right now and through this effort each one of us can play an immediate role in helping comfort so many people.” – Michael Jackson
- “Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.” – Michael Jackson
- “It pains me to watch the human suffering taking place in the Gulf region of my country.” – Michael Jackson
- “That guitar is okay but you’ll never make a living with it” – John’s Aunt Mimi
- “What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.” – John Lennon
- “We thought that if we lasted for two to three years that would be fantastic.” – Ringo Starr
- “When you’re drowning, you don’t say «I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me», you just scream.” – John Lennon, 1970
- “I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.” – Paul McCartney, 1969
- “I’m a tidy sort of bloke. I don’t like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.” – George Harrison, 1969
- “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one” – The Catcher in the Rye
- “Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans” - John Lennon
- “We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?” – John Lennon
- “I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, «You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly»” – George Harrison
- “I am not the Beatles. I’m me.Paul isn’t the Beatles…The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.” – John Lennon
- “The things is, we’re all really the same person. We’re just four parts of the one.” – Paul McCartney
- “John had his thing, and Paul had his, and together there were two different things all together. But they fit.” – Billy Preston
- “When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody’s noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius…I am one, and if there isn’t, I don’t care.” – John Lennon
“As far as I’m concerned, there won’t be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.” – George Harrison
- “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.” – John Lennon in a 1966 interview
- “I’m not saying we’re better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing, or whatever it is. I just said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong. And now it’s all this.” – John Lennon
- “There’s a lot of random in our songs…writing, thinking, letting others think of bits-then bam, you’ve the jigsaw puzzle.” – Paul McCartney
- “Love is like a flower, give it time and it will grow” – John Lennon
- “If you don’t ask me out to dinner, I don’t eat”
- “Just cause you feel it, doesn’t mean it’s there.”
- “A heart that’s full up like a landfill and a job that slowly kills you.”
- “May pretty horses come to you as you sleep”
- “Street Spirit (Fade Out)”
- “I Want None Of This”
- “How You See The World No. 2.”
- “If I could be who you wanted all the time.”
- “I keep falling over, I keep passing out when I see a face like you.”
- “I’ll be waiting with a gun and a pack of sandwiches, and nothing.”
- “I’m the guy on tour who will do his own thing.”
- “I’m easily irritated.”
- “Misery is flying in an airplane.”
- “I’ve never made it a point to be different from everyone else.”
- “She was super horny.” – about Janine
- “Well, most of the shows we play are the Warped tour, but in our free time, pretty much everyone skateboards.”
- “I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different.”
- “I think they’re super funny, but you would never hear me talking like them.” – on Tom and Mark
- “Seeing the Police and not being able to be the drummer.” – most heartbreaking concert experience
- “I don’t have to tell you that.”
- “It’s, like, an ok tour bus and all, but people see bookmobile on the side and come up and ask if we have any book to sell. I mean how stupid is that.. books? We don’t even read.”
- “It’s a good song, toot toot, fuck you. Robert Smith eat our dust.”
- “We don’t like superstars and rock idols.”
- “Prosthetic head is better than no head in the morning.”
- “When I die, they’ll bury me in an Anvil case … with wheels.”
- “We miss heavy metal.”
- “When was the last time you saw someone go off stage to snort cocaine in the middle of there neck?”
- “Mike, the craziest son-of-a-bitch that ever walked the planet.”
- “People think that we’re just these good-looking guys with these really big dicks that play really hot fucking rock and roll. But we’re sensitive, and we have feelings too.”
- “I can’t live without Mexican food.”
- “I spy on my dad when he’s taking a shower just like everybody else.”
- “Punk has nothing to do with what label you’re on.”
- “All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they’re so punk because they have a purple mohawk.”
- “People always throw things at us.”
- “Right now people think I’m ugly, but in 150 years they might think I’m handsome.”
- “I applaud anyone who thinks I’m good-looking and invite them into my world.”
- “I call everyone stinky butt.”
- “Anybody that is going to hear the record is going to think, «The songs totally suck, but the production is so amazing, I’m going to go buy the record.»” – on Enema of the State
- “Right after Seattle all eyes went to San Diego.”
- “As long as we helped you discover that the world is a beautiful place.”
- “I think we need therapy.”
- “I think it’s so incredible that there are all these boy bands out there, like the Backstreet Boys and N’sync. They’re all so bad! It hurts me, I’ve cried!”
- “And they choreograph everything, including the sex they have with each other after the shows!” – about boy bands
- “I don’t think that listening to the Beastie Boys is embarrassing because I think they are a really great band.”
- “The only reason in the world that I bought a computer was to look up UFO sites.”
- “It’s all on this giant fiberoptic system tied into the Pentagon and they are monitoring everything we do and we’re all gonna die.”
- “We write about relationships, and just growing up though high school, that kind of stuff.”
- “Success is strange.”
- “When you go from selling no records to selling lots of them, you have to wonder-did your mom buy them all? Are they just sitting in your garage?”
- “It’s a travelling punk rock barbecue.” – about Warped Tour
- “I hated, hated, hated my job. You know those people who hate there job? That was me.”
- “We were bored and we couldn’t get chicks. So we decided if we’d be in a band, that would take care of two problems at once.”
- “I might be a dork, but I don’t want to be a jerk.”
- “There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.”
- “All in the name of science of course!”
- “We don’t want to grow up, we never want to grow up!”
- “We’re just really lucky. We’re not better than anybody else.”
- “Please don’t throw your dirty toilet paper, I’m not hungry.”
- “And we don’t stay up all night driving, now we stay up all night drinking.”
- “I just want to make a UFO movie.”
- “These days, if we’re not sleeping, we’re trying to get food or we’re watching TV.”
- “We pull off looking stupid very well. We can do that without even trying.”
- “I am such a freak.”
- “I used to drink a lot of beer, but I was just getting fat as can be.”
- “We don’t want to be Green Day!”
- “The worst thing in the world is shit, and shit comes out of the butt.”
- “There’s too many rad things to stick in your butt besides a living animal.”