"All I ever wanted to do was hear music that I like and play it to other people" - John Peel, my hero, born this day in 1939.
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"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." - Frank Zappa
"If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly." - Mark E. Smith
"I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous. I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it. My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people." - Dusty Springfield
"If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym." - Shirley Manson, born this day in 1966.
"If I'm onstage or not, I find the communal experience of a rock concert, or any music performance, achieves a kind of transcendence that I associate with spirituality. It's what I think people expect church to be like. Or just what I've always thought church should be. You lose yourself, and at the same time come to the realization or understanding that you're part of something bigger than yourself." - Jeff Tweedy
"We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being. Love is the most powerful energy there is." - Lenny Kravitz
"I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes. I love to see people laugh and I love it more if I can make them laugh." - Keith Moon, born this day in 1946.
"I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks." - John Lee Hooker, born this day in 1917.
"I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making music. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music." - Aimee Mann
"Our look evolved from the fact that we bought thrift-store clothes. It wasn't like, 'Let's adopt a thrift-store aesthetic.' We just didn't have any money." - Fred Schneider
"I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences." - Buck Owens, born this day in 1929.
“Some of my early stuff was infected by the deadly disease of cynicism, which is a disease of the young, I think, When you’re young, it seems very clever to be cynical. But as you get older, hopefully, if you’re not completely stupid, you realize that you have to be a bit more positive, as a simple matter of survival." - Joe Jackson, born this day in 1954.
"It's only the giving that makes you what you are." - Ian Anderson, born this day in 1947.
"The worst thing you can be is a musician. You shouldn't have too much respect for what gets the job done. It's a tool. It's a piece of equipment. That's the problem with musicians. They get too hung up on the wrong things." - Jim Reid
On this day in 1970, Janis Joplin bought a headstone for the grave of her greatest influence, Bessie Smith, at the Mount Lawn Cemetery in Philadelphia. Blues singer Smith died in 1937 after being refused admission to a whites only hospital.
"Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing." - Bruce Dickinson, born this day in 1958. Amen.
"Every time you play, you have energy within you - universal energy. That's the energy that keeps everything together - the planets, the galaxies. Everything." - Airto Moreira, born this day in 1941.
"There is a view that jazz is 'evil' because it comes from evil people, but actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street and on the streets of New York City were the musicians. They were doing the greatest healing work. They knew how to punch through music that would cure and make people feel good." - Garth Hudson, born this day in 1937.
"I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political." - Robert Cray, born this day in 1958.
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