"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.
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"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.
"Maggot Brain is a state of mind. And then, the condition and position of your ass. Free your mind. Free your mind. Free your mind. Think - it ain't illegal yet. Think - it ain't illegal yet. Think - it ain't illegal yet." - George Clinton
"I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road." - Bill Withers, born this day in 1938.
"I could be a housewife... I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times." - Debbie Harry, born this day in 1945.
"Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are." - Cyndi Lauper
"Everything government touches turns to crap." - Ringo Starr
"There is nothing as unreal as life." - Jeffrey Lee Pierce, born this day in 1958.
"To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always be a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel. My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues, it so often is." - Mick Fleetwood, born this day in 1947.
"Jerry Garcia was 18, I was 19. Our real musical connection came when he poached my guitar. [Laughs.] Well, it wasn’t my guitar. Then Jerry asked if he could borrow it from me and he never gave it back. I wasn’t altogether pleased with that but, in facility with the thing, there was no question it was in better hands." - Robert Hunter, born this day in 1941.
"If God's got a favorite songwriter, I think it's John Prine." - Kris Kristofferson, born this day in 1936.
"If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done. In the end you become part of everything you hate, basically." - Ray Davies, born this day in 1944. -
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