it dont matter if your black or white
michael jackson

Frank Zappa: Jazz is not dead... it just smells funny.

Leonard Cohen: Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Roger Waters: I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships and sniffing around; finding all our skeletons sitting around our TV sets and trying to work out why our end came before its time and they come to the conclusion that we amused ourselves to death.

George Clinton: What is Soul? Huh! Uh! Soul is a joint wrapped in toilet paper.

'Ladies and Gentlemen, the important thing is that we think we're funny.'
Aaron Barret. (Lead singer/guitarist fo Reel Big Fish)

"I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its jut rock and roll with lipstick on'."
--David Bowie

"The only good thing about the Spice Girls is that you can look at them with the sound turned down."
--George Harrison

"The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar."
--Jimi Hendrix

"I put on my Hendrix album and my son said 'Daddy, who's that' and I said 'well son, that's God'"
--Robert Plant

"I never had a problem with drugs, only with cops."
--Keith Richards


"When I'm on the stage, I'm not in control of myself at all. I don't even know who I am. I'm not this rational person who can sit here now and talk to you. If you walked on the stage with a microphone in the middle of the concert, I'd probably come close to killing you."
--Pete Townshend

"Big bastards, that's what the Beatles were. You have to be a bastard to make it. And the Beatles were the biggest bastards on earth."-
-John Lennon

"At our very worst, we were better than most people. And at our very best, we could just wipe the floor with the lot of them."
--John Paul Jones

"Classic Van Halen made you want to drink, dance and fuck. Current Van Halen encourages us to drink milk, drive a Nissan and have a relationship."
--David Lee Roth

"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read."
--Frank Zappa

One again, the Satch stealing the show from us faceless peons.

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
-Elvis Presley

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
-Aldous Huxley

"I'm very fond of drugs."
-Grace Slick

best quote EVER!

Every time I read that one, I hope he didn't say it during an interview with a rock journalist.

The number of great Zappa quotes is limitless.

"I don't want to spend my whole life explaining myself. Either you get, it or you don't."

"I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric -- there's no medical proof that a person hearing a lyric is going to act out the lyric. There's also no medical proof that if you hear any collection of vowels and consonants, that the hearing of that collection is going to send you to Hell."

"The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass. I do it to amuse myself. If I like it, I release it. If somebody else likes it, that's a bonus."

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesnt work if it's not open."

There're many, many more. Words to live by.

indeed.