ITT: Quotes from your favorite musicians.

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"John added a whole new dimension to our sound. He knows all about music theory, composition, melody, and all that other shit I know nothing of. He's a very dedicated guy--only loves his guitar and his cigarettes."

"a"

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"Some days I wake up and feel scared that I'm Ozzy Osbourne. But then I always think of how much worse it could be. I mean, I could have been born as Sting."

>>70221810
>doesn't play an instrument
>doesn't even write most of his own lyrics, just the vocal melodies

Yeah it could be a lot worse.

anyone remember pain olympics? - me

you dont want to watch it if ur not into people cutting their own dicks off and shit its the most brutal sadomasochistic porno of all time

>>70221846
also clockwork orange was sick too

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"A rock-and-roll band really isn't a democracy, it's a dictatorship run by the guy who writes the lyrics."

>>70221889
damn david bowie really let himself go

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"By the time this goes to press, I will be 40. Paul McCartney is 38, Bob Dylan is 38. We're all still fairly young and I hope have many more years of productivity ahead. I hope to be working another 40 years."

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"Devo are no more costumed onstage than Bruce Springsteen."

>>70221945
Well, hey, McCartney and Dylan both had quite a few years left in them.

>>70222002
damn...

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"Anyone who thinks rock-and-roll is a serious art form is fooling themselves. Think back to when you first wanted to play in a band and you'll realize that your main motivation was to get rich and get laid. Imagine being a skinny, awkward kid in high school who's built like a 2nd grader down there and can't get a date to save your life, and then you're in a band and suddenly you have more pussy than you can handle. And I've had people say to me 'Yeah, but Frank Zappa...' Big deal. Frank Zappa made a bunch of funny noises and wrote a bunch of pretentious lyrics to con gullible young women, which is kind of an oxymoronic thing to say if you think about it, into sleeping with him. And you know what? He succeeded. He got rich, he got laid, and he died. The end."

>>70221846
>its the most brutal sadomasochistic porno of all time

lmfao

>>70222042
yeah he sure does think like a highschooler

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"I was very frightened of drugs, having a nurse mother, so I was always cautious, thank God as it turned out, because I would be in rooms with guys who would say, ‘Do you want to sniff a little heroin?’ and I would say, 'Well, just a little.’"

makes me laugh evry tiem

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"The Beastie Boys were a huge influence when we were growing up. They dressed just like us kids and talked just like us, and they showed that you didn't need crazy costumes or tons of expensive equipment to be a musician, or need to play an instrument. All you needed was a mike and a turntable. More importantly, they proved that white guys could succeed in a mostly black music style. From the age of 14, I knew what I wanted to do with my life."

>>70221711
"Skrillex is a fucking hack"
- Mozart

>>70221889

Don "write a word, take a third" Henley.

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"Me and Mick are thicker than thieves. We only disagree on a few little things like the name of the band, what our songs should sound like, what kind of songs we should write, that sort of thing."

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"We turned down Guns'N'Roses. That would have been a big waste of time. As expected, the alternative movement is attracting bandwagoners. I don't know about Soundgarden, we've hung out with them before and they seem like great guys, but then there's other bands like Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains that are obvious corporate puppets. Many of these guys were involved in the hairspray/cockrock scene for years, and now decide to stop washing their hair, don flannel, and fly up to Seattle from Los Angeles to get a record deal and act as if they've lived here their entire lives. It's very insulting to me."

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"These critics are something else, I tell you. Nice letter grades. B minus. Imagine working for a year straight only for some asshole in the Village Voice to give you a B minus. The worst part is that they get into shows for free and get all the front row seats, and there's nothing we can do about it."

William Patrick Corgan.bmp

>I’ll piss on fucking Radiohead, because of all this pomposity. This value system that says Jonny Greenwood is more valuable than Ritchie Blackmore. Not in the world I grew up in.

>>70222184
there's a quote of his that really helped me out when i was depressed

>"As long as you don't feel isolated and completely cut off from everything, you're okay."

it was one of those things you needed to hear at that one moment and i'll always be thankful

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"My addiction to painkillers started after I fell off stage during a show and injured my back. In order to live up to this superman image the media had made me out to be, I had to take those pills and pretty soon, you find out that you can't stop."

>>70222236
Was there ever an interview where Kurt didn't say something desperately and pathetically edgy?

>>70222296
"WHITE

POWERRRRR!!!!!!!!!"

"Music critics love Elvis Costello because they all look just like him."

-- David Lee Roth

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"I remember when all the buzz was going around about that GG Allin guy. But I never understood how a rock star could have such a small penis. It didn't make sense."

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>>70222042
Related

“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”
― Frank Zappa

"He'd be better off shoveling snow." - Richard Strauss on Arnold Schoenberg

>>70222353
gold

>>70222427
Damn, was Strauss generally anti atonality?

>>70222137
Underrated

>>70222423
"I rather liked the music of the '50s and think it's better than a lot of what's out today (1979). To me, one really good, heartfelt song about a guy breaking up with his girlfriend is worth more than 20 albums of English rock put together."

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"Flea in all seriousness isn't that good. I mean, come on. RHCP were vaguely interesting in the late '80s, but Christ, they fucking suck, they suck."

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“Sometimes we pee on each other before we go on stage.”
― Trent Reznor

>>70222042
>>70222399
Op said musicians, not businessmen.

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"I don't wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me."
– Grimes

>>70222514
Is this really from Zappa?

>>70222514
english rock does suck

>>70222278
well
http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/07/billy-corgan-says-radiohead-is-the-last-band-that-really-did-anything-new-with-the-guitar/

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>“You could go to any Levellers concert and stand in the middle and shout, ‘Jeremy!’, and 75% of the audience would turn round.”
>>70222353
True desu, and I love Elvis Costello

>oxymoronic
I... I think he tried making a joke but didn't know what the word meant

>>70224083
i don't understand this one

never have

someone explain this to me

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>>70224106
"What's the deal with Japanese airline food?" - Bob Dylan

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"Beluga."

>>70224168
abandon thread grimes tards are here

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"He come to me with money in his hand
He offered me, I didn't ask him
I wasn't knocking someone's door down, I was running from that
When I got out, I was in that
I was already through that, I had that
I had the studio, I went to the studio
I went to Vox Studios. I had it all, and I looked at it and said, 'This is a bigger jail than I just got out of.'
I don't want to take my time going to work
I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag
And ten or fifteen girls
What the hell I wanna go off into -- and go to work for?
Work for what, money? I got all the money in the world
I'm the king, man
I run the underworld, guy
I decide whos does what and where they do it at
What am I, gonna run around and act like I'm some teenybopper somewhere, for somebody else's money?
I make the money, man, I roll the nickels
The game is mine
I deal the cards."

>>70224093
Yeah, he probably wanted to say "redundant".

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>>70224228
"Dumb death grips fanboy."

>>70222327
Butthurt corporate rock fan detected

>>70222514
>one really good, heartfelt song about a guy breaking up with his girlfriend is worth more than 20 albums of....

doesnt matter what the albums are of, songs about breaking up are such utter trash.
if you write a song about that, you are saying "i want mainstream acceptance"
and you are off the artistic roll-call for life
fucking frank zappa

>>70221830
Everybody still prefer Ozzy to Sting.

Sting and The Police are straight garbage.

>>70224124
A lot of levellers fans are named Jeremy I guess

>>70224253
ayy lmao

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"It felt like the first time all my ideas had come together into something really concise so I was really proud of it...I didn't think anyone would like it though. Music to me was just a hobby and, in a way, I didn't care about showing it to anyone."

>>70224253
God she's ugly

"/mu/ is a shit board and I hate everyone on it." -Jeff Mangum

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>>70222236
>bands like Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains that are obvious corporate puppets. Many of these guys were involved in the hairspray/cockrock scene for years, and now decide to stop washing their hair, don flannel, and fly up to Seattle from Los Angeles to get a record deal and act as if they've lived here their entire lives

I mean this is literally objectively true

>>70224124

It's just super contextual and not very funny. "Jeremy" or "Jezzer" is a name really associated with white college faux-alternative 80's faux-punks / New Wavers in the UK

It's like saying, "You could go to any Nickelback concert and stand in the middle and shout, ‘Chad!’, and 75% of the audience would turn round.” Same joke, different social group.

>>70224237

I'm pretty sure he was quoting Death Grips here

>>70222929
he was such a well-spoken man. the only southern accent i ever liked.

>>70224559
>tfw no gf

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"Don't you love the Oxford dictionary? When I first read it, I just thought it was a really long poem about everything"

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>>70222042
I love how even Zappa was aware

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"There was this one time in the bath and I broke wind and it kinda made a squibily-boo noise, it was pretty funny even Paul thought so"

>>70224579
>The Police are garbage

Truly awful opinion.

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>>70227317
"Most of the titles for my pieces arrived because on computer you have to call them something, so I have. The easy way to look at it is, if it has a hat on - it will probably be called Hat Man"

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"I gotta ding-a-ding dang, my dang-a-long ling long"
-Uncle Al

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>>70222585
i think trent reznor might be mentally challenged

>>70222042
>Think back to when you first wanted to play in a band and you'll realize that your main motivation was to get rich and get laid

lol what a fag

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>>70227417
But that was Gibby

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>>70222236
>pearl jam
>corporate puppet
how

>>70221830
Yeah, he could have been a rapper

>>70222236
Pearl Jam was doing grunge music before Nirvana though

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What did he mean by this

>>70228116
No, they haven't. Pearl Jam formed in 1990, Nirvana put their first album on in 1989, and formed under the name Nirvana in 1987, however Kurt and Krist played in multiple pre-Nirvana Grunge bands, Bambi Slaugher, Fecal Matter, they even played under the name Skid Row until they found out that there was already a Hair Metal band in NYC playing under the name Skid Row, before they were. You're wrong on this one pal.

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>"Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you should've seen him smash a Les Paul!'"

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;_;

>>70227447
my neighbor looks like Trent Reznor and it would explain everything

>>70222042
Why do you not love yourself? Gene Simmons. My condolences to your ears man

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>"While I was working on Downward Spiral, I was living in the house where Sharon Tate was killed. Then one day I met her sister. It was a random thing, just a brief encounter. And she said: "Are you exploiting my sister's death by living in her house?" For the first time, the whole thing kind of slapped me in the face. I said, "No, it's just sort of my own interest in American folklore. I'm in this place where a weird part of history occurred." I guess it never really struck me before, but it did then. She lost her sister from a senseless, ignorant situation that I don't want to support. When she was talking to me, I realized for the first time, "What if it was my sister?" I thought, "Fuck Charlie Manson." I went home and cried that night. It made me see there's another side to things, you know?"

>>70222289
Keef saving lives

>>70226779
There were still better at it than Nirvana

>>70228545
He never said that.

>>70228116
The original members of pearl jam (except Vedder) played grunge as mother love bone until Andy died from overdose

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>>70228622

>>70223269
Billy Corgan can't write a song without using the Corgan Chord to phone in the fuck in, what the hell does he know about guitar or even music for that matter?