Classic Quotes

Rock royalty have made some enlightening, brilliant, genius, funny and sometimes just plain stupid statements in the past. Read on and enjoy some "Classic Quotes" from the world of rock:

"Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees" - Rod Stewart

"Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognise myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else." - Vince Neil, Motley Crue

"I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear" - Freddie Mercury, Queen

"The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen" - Alex Van Halen, Van Halen

“Am I drinking today? Well, put it this way, I’m not not drinking.” - Pete Way, UFO & Waysted

"Turn on, tune up, rock out." - Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top

"I'm just worried that there's enough beer on the bus. That's the top priority at all times." - Zakk Wylde, Black Label Society & Ozzy Osbourne's band.

"Hang in there if you believe what you are doing is unique, otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam.” - Joey Ramone, The Ramones

"When the going gets tough, the tough get an Uzi.” - Axl Rose, Guns 'n' Roses

“I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.” - Ozzy Osbourne

"It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see." - James Hetfield, Metallica

"The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades." - Alice Cooper

"Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs." - Jim Morrison, The Doors

"Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did." - Sebastian Bach, Skid Row & Solo

"President George Washington used to wear a wig and make-up. I mean, c'mon, if he could do it, I can do it." - Nikki Sixx, Motley Crue

"My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today." - Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin

"There is no hell. There is only France." - Frank Zappa

"I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five." - Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones

"The thing about my music is, there really is no point you know, and I'm really trying to drive that home...." - Neil Young

"Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak." - Ted Nugent

"I can't even read notes but I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke!" - Ace Frehley, Kiss

"We want to be the band that if we moved in next door to you, your lawn would die." - Lemmy, Motorhead

"All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds." - Marc Bolan

"They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion" - Ginger Baker, Cream

"I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular" - Ritchie Blackmore, Deep Purple, Rainbow & Blackmore's Night

"It’s funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead you are made for life." - Jimi Hendrix

"We weren't too ambitious when we started out. We just wanted to be the biggest thing that ever walked the planet." - Steven Tyler, Aerosmith

"I used to have a drug problem. Now I have enough money." - David Lee Roth, Van Halen and solo

"Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers." - Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden

"Everything louder than everything else." - Ian Gillan, Deep Purple

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