MUSIC-RELATED QUOTE OF THE DAY

[sarah]

"Not to mince words, Mr. Epstein, but we don’t like your boys’ sound. Groups are out; four-piece groups with guitars particularly are finished."

-Dick Rowe, executive in charge of new talent at Decca Records, turns down the chance to sign The Beatles in 1961.

[Bruce Springsteen]

One of my favorites, as always:

"Do poorly in school, nearly flunk out, barely graduate, then start a punk-rock band. If I'm a role model, then we're in trouble."

- Dickey Barrett, Mighty Mighty Bosstones

[Stevo]

I have a message to deliver to the cute people of the world...if you're cute, or maybe you're beautiful...there's MORE OF US UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS OUT THERE THAN YOU ARE!! So watch out.

-Zappa

[MattDroz]

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star
- David Bowie

I fucked Bowie
- Mick Jagger

(I cant back up the second one...)

[Stevo]

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star
- David Bowie

I fucked Bowie
- Mick Jagger

(I cant back up the second one...)

[Mike]

That sure sounded like an amazing party. I wish someone would recount it.

[sarah]

"You can't write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to sometimes, so you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream."

-Zappa, natch

[The Dude]

I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.

[Stevo]

"On Sundays, we'd always visit Uncle Robert, who was the organist at a methodist church in La Verne, California. Uncle Robert had a pipe organ in his house that went right through the roof. When he would play he would smear all the notes together like hot melted crayons and the whole house would shake.I remember his house was a complete mess; his clothes were everywhere, his bed was never made. "Now this is show business," I thought to myself. I asked my mom why I couldn't keep my room like Uncle Robert's, and she said, "Tom, your Uncle Robert is blind."

-Tom Waits

[The Dude]

Tom's reply:

"Mom, why can't I be blind?"

[MattDroz]

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

-- John Lennon

[Mike]

Between my friend James and me:

J: heh you know that band the Subways?
M: No
J: they were pretty popular a few years ago, one of those bands where the singer/lead guitarist is married to the female bass player and did lots of lovey songs around that dynamic
J: now they're divorced, but still in the same band, only the songs have a harder edge lol
M: So now they're No Doubt.
J: pretty much
J: so in a couple of years she'll start churning out terrible rap-wannabe music
M: Awesome!
J: god.

[Stevo]

Yeah, the poor other members of No Doubt,
Before: "Sure we'll let your little sister sing for us for a while! She's even pretty cute!"
After: "Press Debit or Credit, please."

[Bruce Springsteen]

I'm sure the other members of No Doubt are doing just fine... if anything, Gavin Rossdale is mooching money off of Gwen.

[Mike]

not my president

[Dan]

Here's one of my favourite coulda-happened stories: While recording "We Will Rock You" at Wessex studios, Mercury came face to face with Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. "So you're this Freddie Platinum bloke that's supposed to be bringing ballet to the masses," Vicious snarled, prompting a completely unfazed response from Mercury: "Ah, Mr. Ferocious, we're trying our best, dear."

[sarah]

I hope that story is true. I really do.

[MattDroz]

“I've still got that energy, ... I'm still that pissed off. And I still can't get a job.”
- Billy Idol

[Bruce Springsteen]

"We always seemed to get a whole lot more done when we didn't have a lot of company around, we were more productive. As soon as company came, of course, we'd start having fun... and you know what happens when you have too much fun."

Rick Danko, the Band

[sarah]

"I'm like a fly Malcolm X: buy any jeans necessary."

-Kanye West