The following are "Classic Quotes" from the world of rock. A new quote will be added every month:
December 2011
“When the going gets tought, the tough get an Uzi.” - Axl Rose, Guns 'n' Roses
November 2011
“I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.” - Ozzy Osbourne
October 2011
"It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see." - James Hetfield, Metallica
September 2011
"The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades." - Alice Cooper
August 2011
"Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs." - Jim Morrison, The Doors
July 2011
"Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did." - Sebastian Bach, Skid Row & Solo
June 2011
"President George Washington used to wear a wig and make-up. I mean, c'mon, if he could do it, I can do it." - Nikki Sixx, Motley Crue
May 2011
"My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today." - Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin
April 2011
"There is no hell. There is only France." - Frank Zappa
March 2011
"I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five." - Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones
February 2011
"The thing about my music is, there really is no point you know, and I'm really trying to drive that home...." - Neil Young
January 2011
"Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak." - Ted Nugent
December 2010
"I can't even read notes but I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke!" - Ace Frehley, Kiss
November 2010
"We want to be the band that if we moved in next door to you, your lawn would die." - Lemmy, Motorhead
October 2010
"All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds." - Marc Bolan
September 2010
"They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion" - Ginger Baker, Cream
August 2010
"I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular" - Ritchie Blackmore, Deep Purple, Rainbow & Blackmore's Night
July 2010
"It’s funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead you are made for life." - Jimi Hendrix
June 2010
"We weren't too ambitious when we started out. We just wanted to be the biggest thing that ever walked the planet." - Steven Tyler, Aerosmith
May 2010
"I used to have a drug problem. Now I have enough money." - David Lee Roth, Van Halen and solo
April 2010
"Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers." - Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden
March 2010
"Everything louder than everything else." - Ian Gillan, Deep Purple
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