"I don't write the songs; I just hold the pen"
-Hank Williams

"Without music, life would be a mistake"
-Fredrich Nietzsche

"one good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain"
~ bob marley

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.

-Kurt Cobain

"If Elvis were alive today I think he would really understand Happy Hardcore"

John Peel

"I hated the Beatles. It was something my Dad listened to"--Dave Vanian.

"white boy funk sucks" - krist novoselic

"I hate music - it's got too many notes" - The Replacements

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Interviewer : Do you have any recommendations for young people out there looking to get into the music business?

Lemmy : Don't.

"We used to play to a lot of record-collecting garage-rock Nazis and hipsters and now we are getting frat boys with Cleveland Cavaliers baseball caps. I can't figure that one out at all. Once you become a hip band, you have to keep doing the same things over and over again. That brings this kind of expectation as far as the audience goes, and with us, we're like, ‘Hey, let's play all Banana Splits covers tonight,' so I don't think we'll be hip for very long."

Mick Collins

trying to find that Iggy Pop one about the Kinks, but my books is all at home and the internet is worthless so far

i can't believe i found this whole interview online, it's a fun read.
i had read it in one of my dad's old playboys:

http://members.ol.com.au/rgriffin/Golde ... ayboy.html

but this is the David Bowie quote that i was always drawn to

. . . do you consider yourself an original thinker?

Not by any means. More like a tasteful thief.

Don't play what's there. Play what's not there.
- Miles Davis

It ain't why, why, why
It ain't why, why, why
It just is.

V. Morrison

The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men lie like dogs. There is also a negative side

-Hunter S. Thompson


To me, the nut of the thing is that if what you make is hard like a diamond, you can put it anywhere. You can put it up your ass and it will still be beautiful

-Iggy Pop

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

-Elvis Costello

He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

-Alice Cooper, on Marilyn Manson

I thought this was a Frank Zappa quote?

I read it online and it said Elvis Costello. Blame the website.

"You will get on your filthy hands and kness and crawl to the alter that is Ween."

Henry Rollins

Quite simply...
"Music is the best." - Frank Zappa