Rock Musicians Quotes

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.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

Rock's always been the devil's music.

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

Rock musicians are consistent in their disdain and irreverent treatment of Jesus Christ.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

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

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.

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.

There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

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.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.

Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.

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.

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 said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.