your favorite quote by a musician?

"I made a song about dental floss but did anybody's teeth get cleaner"

Frank Zappa in reply to a comment that his lyrics are corrupting America's youth.

 

"I don't live today" - Jimi Hendrix

 

Music is the silence between notes---C. Debussy

A good composer doesn't imitate; he steals--I. Stravinsky

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refrshment of the soul--J.S. Bach.

You can't play the blues in an air conditioned room--Matt Murphy

If you ain't never been in love, you can't play the blues--Son House

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail--Isaac Stern

 

"Music is organised sound!" -- Edgard Varése

 

"If you can remember the 60's, you weren't really there!"

 

"Think for yourself, question authority...." Maynard Keenan

 

i dont have a quote but that sig is hilarious ganjaking

 

"Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it." -- Brian Eno

[size=-1] "When I'm on the stage, I'm not in control of myself at all. I don't even know who I am. I'm not this rational person who can sit here now and talk to you. If you walked on the stage with a microphone in the middle of the concert, I'd probably come close to killing you." -- Pete Townshend[/size]

 

Heaven would be a place where bullshit existed only on television. (Hallelujah! We's halfway there!)

-zappa

he is just so funny and smart, haha

 

my favourite quote's already been mentioned and is quite cheesy but is still my fav.
'when the power of love overcomes the love of power then the world will know peace'- jimi hendrix

 

"Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans." (John Lennon)

.

 

"Music is the language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, but if it's in the bones, it's in the BONES." - Keith Richards.

 

"am I alive or thoughts that drift away?
does summer come for everyone?
can humans do what prophets say?
and if I die before I learn to speak
can money pay for all the days
I lived awake but half asleep?"

(primitive radio gods - standing outside a broken phone booth)

 

"I'm terribly attracted to women with ocular damage." -Brian Eno

It means we're meant to be.

 

Lottsa great ones here. One I don't believe but find terribly silly and unfortunately I think some people think this way....

"You aren't too drunk if to can lay on the floor without falling off"- David Allen Coe

 

"Your talking to someone who really understands rock music." -Tipper Gore

Lmao.

 

lol it goes deeper than a silly ridiculous quote

its saying that you cant be too drunk, because thefloor aint goin anywhere. there is always somewhere to land and then not fall off

now if your in a place where the floor goes away, like a canyon, then you can be too drunk, to be there ie


anyway, there are some good ones here. i love morrison's one about the comet (himself)

 

"Every man knows he is a sissy compared to Johnny Cash" -Bono

 

~*rotf *~
StonerBill, hun...that is exactly the point, yer never really too drunk.....that and...what would be considered the floor inna canyon is ground level, lol, can't fall offa that either!

 

nar its not making the emphasis on the obvious fact you cant fall off the floor though