Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
Rock's always been the devil's music.
You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.
When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.
A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.
All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.
Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.
I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.
I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.
Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food
I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music and was just trying to copy what I heard on the radio. And at a very early age I started experimenting with old tape recorders from my parents. I was 11 or 12 at that time and then when I was like 14 or 15 I had a punk band. I made all the classic rock musician's evolutions and then in the early nineties I bought my first sampler and that is how I got into electronic music, because I was able to produce it on my own. That was quite a relief.
Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care." To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.
That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.
There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material.
I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.
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