Musician Quotes

I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'

Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks.

You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that.

You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.

Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago.

I like progress but I hate change.

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in.

This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.

This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.

This administration affects the everyday life of the common person.

Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

Nothing exceeds like excess.