Cool Quotes
This page has some of my favorite quotes, from the cool, to the funny, to the bizzare, they are all here. Also, remember that I add more quotes many times per week, so check back again soon.
"I'm not a rockstar, I'm a bass player."-Michael Anthony of Van Halen
"David Lee Roth has been accused of many things over the years, but subtlety isn't one of them."-J. D. Considine
"Jimmy Page is an excellent producer. Led Zeppelin I and II are
classics. As a player he's very good in the studio, but I've never
seen him play well live. He's sloppy. He plays like he's got a
broken hand and he's two years old. If you put out a good album
and play like a two year old, what's the purpose?"-Edward Van Halen
"...negativity of any kind is best ignored.
Even asking that question encourages this kind of negative
speculation. How could anyone sing backwards? It's complete
bunkum--it can't be done. Only Americans would come up with
something that ridiculous. [...] Why don't people take up swimming
or squash if they're bored?"-Jimmy Page commenting on the rumor that there are Satanic messages in Stairway To Heaven when you play it backwards
"When I first started getting into rock n’ roll on my own (outside my family’s influences), what inspired me to play guitar was something that happened when I was thirteen. I chased the most beautiful girl - who was twice my age - for about three months. And when I finally got into her apartment, she played me Rocks for the first time. I listened to it about four or five times, completely forgot about the girl, and split the apartment. That’s what Aerosmith means to me."- Slash of Guns 'N Roses
"This is music for the young, the young in the head, and anybody who can still make it raw".- Stu Werbin, on the first Aerosmith album
"We all owe each other a lot of money. It’s the only way we know we’ll pay each other back."-Brad Whitford when asked why Aerosmith keeps touring
"I've seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't."-Joe Perry of Aerosmith
"Well we're only doing three songs that he sang on, and I'm singing those. And bassists are a penny a dozen really."-David Gilmour of Pink Floyd when asked what it was like to tour without Roger Waters
"If Jay Leno's monolouge didn't have a Stones joke there'd be holes."-Joe Perry
"Oh yes, good old Roger. He did the Wall In Berlin. Did it sound like Pink Floyd? No, it was awful."-David Gilmour when told that Waters thought Pink Floyd could continue after all the original members had died
"I like listening to the radio. You can listen to it at night. You can't watch TV at night because it makes it light."-Roger Waters
"Rap? It's short for crap."-Gregg Allman of The Allman Brothers Band
"Here lies the demon of screamin' who never woke up from the dream he was dreamin'. Until one day he took a magic potion and all that remained was Sweet Emotion."-Steven Tyler when asked what he wanted on his tombstone
"People aren't sure if I'm gonna wind up in rehab or have a number one record."-Steven Tyler
"We're the only band that's come out of Australia that's worth anything."-Bon Scott, formerly of AC/DC about his band
"Nothing beats a guitar through an amp."-James Hetfield of Metallica
"People don't just rush out and buy music. They listen first, I think."-David Gilmour
"It still amuses me when someone says "He plays really well but he has no feeling." That sounds like something you might say when you're 12."-Steve Vai
"All musicians have their fragile shells, regardless of how many tattoos they have on their bodies."-Steve Vai
"With all due to respect to all the people who went out and bought it, it's really just a bunch of rubbish"-Roger Waters on Pink Floyd's first album without him A Momentary Lapse of Reason
"They sound pretty good, Roger's vocals are a bit off-key, but he was notoriously off-key even in the old days. Jon's doing a great job with my parts, but I'm not to impressed with the guitar work. No one can touch what Dave is capable of on guitar"-Richard Wright of Pink Floyd, after attending a Roger Waters concert on his In The Flesh tour
"Bat sold eight million and the next one would sell four even if it were crap - look at Joe Cocker"-Meat Loaf's management after the initial success of Bat Out of Hell
"Mötley Crüe's albums were a lot like episodes of Married with Children in the sense that they may not be great works of art, but can be darn entertaining."-All Music Guide Review of Dr. Feelgood
"If I had a nickel for every insult I've heard about my voice I'd probably be a millionare"-Geddy Lee of Rush
"You "got hold of"? You mean, you abrogated our rights, circumvented protective copyrights, violated international statutes, and supported piracy by buying a bootleg album, don't you? Ah- I thought so. Never mind. "-Neil Peart of Rush when a fan told him that he "got a hold of" a Rush bootleg
"David Lee Roth smirked his way through "Ice Cream Man" and the next five Van Halen albums"-Wall of Sound review of Van Halen's debut album
"No matter which way you look at this, it's bizarre. Established superstars just don't go around changing styles — drastically — adopting new names, and putting on wigs. Unless they're Cher"-Wall of Sound review of Garth Brooks In... The Life of Chris Gaines
"Obviously, Garth Brooks fans aren't buying the Chris Gaines album"-A representative from Brooks' record company when the country singer's rock album experiment failed to sell to expectations
"The only reason it came out, chides Loaf, is because Miami Steve Van Zandt told CBS the opening to You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth were the best 10 seconds in rock 'n' roll. A total lie on his part."-Meat Loaf on the difficulty in finding a record deal for "Bat Out of Hell"
"I can’t think of any reason for me going back and making a Pink Floyd record and doing a show or a tour or anything other than if I was to say, ‘Okay, you got me. I wanna be a big star, I want all of that, I want all of that weight that I disavowed when I left, and I want to re-embrace all of that stuff that I attacked when I wrote The Wall, I want to change all my philosophies, everything that I’ve said and that I feel about music and my own integrity and my politics and everything about my life, I reneg now, and let's all go out and make a lot of money together.’ That's not gonna happen"-Roger Waters when asked if he would ever rejoin Pink Floyd
"The whole scene was changing in the late '90s anyway, and we were getting sick to death of watching bands who move less on stage than we do in soundcheck. All of a sudden you had Marilyn Manson and Kid Rock — these characters — and we figured if it was okay for a guy to prance around like Aladdin, maybe there was room for us."-Joe Elliott of Def Leppard, on the band returing to their signature sound
"I took Spinal Tap real personal"-Joe Perry
"Without a doubt, Metallica's finest album, and that's saying something"-AMG review of Master of Puppets
"...So these are the grim-faced hypocrites who are stirring around in the dark places of life hoping to find something - anything - dirtier than their own reflection. And if they can't find anything - no problem - they'll just make something up! And here they are accusing rock musicians of being sincere and dedicated satanists attempting to poison the souls of America's youth with subliminal messages of devil-worship. You know that's almost a very good joke! Almost."-Neil Peart, responding to an article in a publication that said that rock groups were satanistic
"I'll go home and change my phone number, and David Lee Roth will go home and sit by the phone, waiting for it to ring"-Sammy Hagar, when told that Gary Cherone had left Van Halen, and was looking for a replacement singer
"You know, there’s a reason why teen-agers listen to ’60s music, the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Santana: They need to pass through us to get to their thing"-Carlos Santana, on the generation gap at the 1999 Grammy Awards
"Who cares?"-Angus Young, of AC/DC, when asked who he thought would be #1 this week, Backstreet Boys or NSYNC
"In an era of stratocasters and wah-wah pedals, Elton John made it cool to be a piano player"-Billy Joel, presenting the Living Legend award to Elton John at the 1999 Grammy Awards
"It's like the monolith in 2001-seamless, imposing, perfect. This is the one hard rock album that even the snobs who hate heavy metal admit to loving... belongs in even the most basic hard rock collection... their best album... rock rarely gets better than Back In Black"-Various reviews of AC/DC's masterpiece album Back In Black
"To say that Dirt is a dark album is something of an understatement"-AMG review of Alice In Chain's Dirt album
"Thanks Dave, for all you've done, but please, hang up the mic"-Wall of Sound review of DLR Band
"With the immortal words 'I am Iron Man' Black Sabbath gave birth to heavy metal"-Guitar World short review of Black Sabbath's album Paranoid
"This is the record that conviced a generation of guitarists that, not only could white men play the blues; it might actually be a good idea for them to do so"-Guitar World short review of the album Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton
"Before Cream, a blues solo was just a bunch of riffs... I don't think there will ever be another guitar player, at least in my lifetime, who will come along and change music and the way the guitar is played like Jimi did... Hendrix started a school that nobody ever graduated from. And nobody ever will... We just play music and sometimes people put us up on a pedastal. But really, nobody's a star. Stars are up in the sky... I think God picked Hendrix to come in here and change music. He was a lot deeper than we've ever given him credit for."-Various comments from Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd, when commenting on his choices for Guitar World's 60 Minutes feature
"I mean, we're not talking schizophrenia here. Just self-destructive with a sense of humor"-Joe Perry on Aerosmith's early days
"Be warned -- what follows is an album that fills the ears with such good rock they almost bleed."-Wall of Sound review of Aerosmith's album Nine Lives
"To this day David JoHansen says that he can't recall a moment of making (the first album), but I remember David's reaction to Todd Rundgren's singing suggestion: 'Hey, I just yell, that's it, alright?'... [the band Sexus] sound like Nine Inch Nails, plus good songs"-Various quotes from producer Jack Douglas in a KNAC.com interview
"The CD features time changes that you'd need a calculator to crack, impossible guitar arpeggios from Alex Lifeson, and Geddy Lee's low end bass rumblings and high end vocal shriekings... this is the album where Neil's drumming surpassed that of any mere mortal... that he plays the fills that he does without 10 arms never ceases to amaze me"-Various quotes from reviews of Rush's Hemispheres album
"Did you hear the one about the rock band that wanted to play in an orchestra?"-James Hetfield
"One of the very few successful bands to be named after a sheep disease..."-An editorial review on the band Anthrax"
"Entre Nous is a sort of intelligent love song (if such a thing can be said to exist)"-A review of Rush's album Permanent Waves
