"As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?" - David Bowie. lost this day in 2016.
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"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring." - David Bowie, lost this day in 2016.
"If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive." - David Bowie, lost this day in 2016.
"My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'." - Jimmy Page, born this day in 1944 and crushing souls who dis The Dan.
It's dusty. Very, very dusty...
"That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way." - Syd Barrett, born this day in 1946.
"Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them." - Bryan Ferry
"The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll." - Paul Westerberg, born this day in 1960.
"I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob." - Bo Diddley (Ellas McDaniel), born this day in 1928.
"The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that? If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction." - Alex Chilton, born this day in 1950.
"You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody." - Jerry Garcia
"Don't forget you're alive. We don't know what the next second will bring and what a fantastic thing this is. This can get easily forgotten in the routine of life, and that's something I'm trying to bring to my attention at all times. Don't forget you're alive. We're not dead, you know. This is the greatest thing." - Joe Strummer, 20 years gone today.
"Music is the only religion that delivers the goods." - Frank Zappa, born this day in 1940.
"The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life." - Frank Zappa, born this day in 1940.
"The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons. Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity. Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not." - Frank Zappa, born this day in 1940.
"I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance." - Frank Zappa, prophet, born this day in 1940.
"The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own. Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination." - Frank Zappa, born this day in 1940.
"Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement." - Frank Zappa, born this day in 1940.
"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know." - Louis Armstrong
"There was a knock on our dressing room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting." - Keith Richards, born this day in 1943. -
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