Musician Quotes

I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.

I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn't be here. I don't mean to put them down, but I'm just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways.

I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.

I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.

I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

I don't care what people say about me.

I can't retire.

I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.

I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.

All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.

First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.

I hope I die before I get old.

I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back.

You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.

There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.