"It's only the giving that makes you what you are." - Ian Anderson, born this day in 1947.
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"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.
"Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities. I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life." - Bill Berry, born this day in 1958.
"The people who control the music industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money." - Rick Wright of Pink Floyd, born this day in 1943. Variant this, limited that - this man knew what's up long ago. RIP and thanks for everything.
"I think God made woman to be strong, not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way; Mother was a strong woman." - Little Richard
"You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex." - Mick Jagger, born this day in 1943.
"DEVO was like the punk band that non Punk America saw as Punk and so when people who were really into Punk rock would be walking around on the streets the jocks who learned about Punk through Devo would roll down their windows and yell at the Punks: 'HEY, DEVO!!'" - Thurston Moore, born this day in 1958.
"The two things you can't fake are good food and good music" - Etta James
"Jesus, man, can you change the channel? Man, c'mon, I had a rough night and I hate the fuckin' Eagles , man." - The Dude. Don Henley, born this day in 1947.
"Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny. Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'" - George Clinton, born this day in 1941.
"I've gone through three changes- I thought I was a Christian. Then I was the devil. Then the third one, where I know who I am, you know, I feel like I'm an alien." - Roky Erickson, born this day in 1947.
"Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was dangerous, it scared everybody's parents, which was part of the attraction then - as it still is now... it totally blindsided me and made me want to get a guitar and do that." - Roger McGuinn, born this day in 1942.
"We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do." - Bon Scott, born this day in 1946.
“I was born, grew up, spent a few years in the army, couple more in the can, and here I am, half a wise guy, so what?" - Paulie Walnuts. RIP Tony Sirico. Thanks for everything.
"I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage." - Ringo Starr, born this day in 1940. -
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