Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Gibb

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

Barry Gibb

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

Holly Johnson

I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop.

Phil Collen

Every night is a joy; you get an hour and a half of all these hits. It's a lot of fun.

Phil Collen

We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England.

Ozzy Osbourne

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

Melanie Chisholm

I wouldn't say I worked with these people because I was looking for a particular vocal sound. I worked with them because I loved what they had done before-and because they really wanted to work with me.

Joss Stone

For me, personally, Mind, Body and Soul is my real debut.

Syd Barrett

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

Dan Hawkins

When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!

Joe Cocker

I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times.

Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.

Roy Harper

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.

David Coverdale

I remember when I was a teenager, the epitome of success for us was Top of the Pops in those days, because we really had no idea.

Damon Albarn

Well, I made fun of the people in the government and then realized that even if we got rid of them, they were replaced by exactly the same guys.

Robin Gibb

I think for anybody, any family, and I know there are families out there that are going through this even now, that it is the hardest thing in the world. Nobody is ever prepared for it.

Robin Gibb

Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us.

Syd Barrett

When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.

Sid Vicious

I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to.

Geezer Butler

We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!

Geezer Butler

However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.

Joss Stone

People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.

Mick Taylor

The one thing perhaps I do regret is not making more albums. I have written a lot of music that should be recorded... that will be recorded.

Peter Asher

I am still working with music, but Gordon and I no longer perform together.

Peter Asher

Paul and I don't see that much of each other these days, but I certainly still regard him as a friend.

Kim Wilde

People want performers, personality and drama, and you got that in the .

Joe Cocker

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.

Ritchie Blackmore

I had given up on the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates.

Jacqueline du Pre

I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

Thomas Dolby

If you think back to the '70's, there were these new tools, with very few people using them in pop music. There's a real parallel with that now.

Thomas Dolby

If you're Take That for example, you don't need to be seen in the studio. But they have their own fans, and their fans would like a way to get closer.

Melanie Brown

Hopefully, next year if we can get everything sorted out and together.