musicians say the darndest things

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What are your favorite musician quotes? Mine:

Sebastian Bach (on his t-shirt that said "AIDS kills fags dead"): I thought it was finny, but I can see how some people wouldn't think that. I mean, my gramma just died of cancer, and if someone was wearing a shirt that said 'Cancer Kills Grammas Dead,' I wouldn't think that was funny."

KRS-One: "I am a very humble person. I think I'm the most humble person I know."

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 12 July 2003 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, I don't know anyone who's died of AIDS or cancer, but I see no humor in that. Call me old-fashioned.

― maria b (maria b), Saturday, 12 July 2003 06:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, yeah, I know. That's what it's such a hilariously stupid thing to say.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 12 July 2003 06:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Stupidity isn't hilarious.

― maria b (maria b), Saturday, 12 July 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh wait... okay.

― maria b (maria b), Saturday, 12 July 2003 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly, two.
- Frederic Chopin

The banjo is the swiss army knife of the darkside.
-j. lowenstein

― kephm, Saturday, 12 July 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

& another hilariously stupid one

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
-Bono

― kephm, Saturday, 12 July 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

you have to admit, U2 sucks in avery unique way.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Saturday, 12 July 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

can someone please wheel out the mariah carey quotes - they are sheer CLASS

― bob snoom, Saturday, 12 July 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff"

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 12 July 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

A couple of wowsers from the book I'm reading:

"What does Crazy Horse give Neil Young? A clean slate. They should've never been allowed to be musicians at all. They should've been shot at birth."

David Crosby (in Shakey).

"They called Neil 'Snake,' and for good reason--if it wasn't happening, Neil would fuck you in a second...Neil's a cold guy, OK? Capable of being cold."

Young's 30-year-plus manager Elliot Roberts on Neil (Shakey).

― edthesecond, Saturday, 12 July 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Rather than "I wouldn't think that was funny" didn't Bach end his apology with a quickly-spoken "That wouldn't be cool, but I'd still think it was a funny shirt."

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 12 July 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The Mariah quote is false.

― ham on rye (ham on rye), Saturday, 12 July 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"That wouldn't be cool, but I'd still think it was a funny shirt."

That sounds more correct. I couldn't find a primary source on it.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 12 July 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Bill Clinton (hey, he's a musician too): "Bono has succeeded where I failed."

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 12 July 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

all those ol' 'Quotes Of The Year' pages from MM's and NME's Xmas issues to thread!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 12 July 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"You've unleashed the fucking fury!" - Yngwie Malmsteen

― Famous Athlete, Sunday, 13 July 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Double Wanker! Both Hands!" Shampoo

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Sunday, 13 July 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"I can be lonely. I can be lonely right in the middle of a crowd." --Elvis Presley

― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 13 July 2003 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"Yeah, but when Elvis sez it, it sounds profound..."

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 13 July 2003 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"People are always asking us, like, 'What's it like to be famous?' And when I think of famous I think about people, like, who kill people." - Billy Corgan

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 13 July 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"i love the swastika! its such a powerful symbol"

Crispian Mills (as quoted by New Musical Express)

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 13 July 2003 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"I fell asleep in the airport actually while standing up, and fell over and landed on one of my bears, one of my teddy bears. Fell on the floor - the bear saved me! And I said, "thank you", and he said, 'Don't mention it,' he said. 'That's what we're here for - to protect you.'"

- Richard D. James

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 13 July 2003 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

(insert everything ever uttered by Andrew WK here)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 13 July 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaaaawwwwwwwwwwwww... Aphex Twin saved by his teddy bear. It's soooooo adorable! (passes out from a diabetic coma)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 14 July 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Now it all makes sense! That explains why I never saw any security bods at the gigs where RDJ employed big teddy bears...

― Nat, Monday, 14 July 2003 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

"My theory is that music is good. It's the only religion that delivers the goods." - Frank Zappa

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 14 July 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Every time Morrissey opens his sacred mouth he utters words that should be revered and taught in every high school in the land.

Who's Sebastian Bach? Twat.

― russ t, Monday, 14 July 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

slightly off-thread (more like 'musicians say the funniest things')
but from the penultimate muzik's outkast article -

dre: 'my boy moby ran up to me at the MTV awards and said 'i want to do a song with you'. now i was like 'noooooooo! i like you moby but everybody else hates you!'[laughter from everyone in earshot]
'if i work with you, they're going to hate me too. that aint good.
i can't go down with your ship.' i'll produce it,
but god damn, brother...'
[more laughter]

― piscesboy, Monday, 14 July 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"Most critics like Elvis Costello because many of them actually look like him." - David Lee Roth

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Monday, 14 July 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The funny thing is, I know more music critics who look like Dave (though because I have dark hair and glasses, I'm not one of 'em)

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 14 July 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"Most critics like Elvis Costello because many of them actually look like him." - David Lee Roth

Substitute "Lenny Kaye" and he'd be right, except most critics don't give a shit about Lenny Kaye.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 July 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Except for Lenny Kaye.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 July 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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