"I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch." - Ric Ocasek, RIP
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"We'd {The Velvet Underground} hold a chord for three hours if we could." - John Cale
"If God were to appear in my room, obviously I would be in awe, but I don't think I would be humble. I might cry, but I think he would dig me like crazy." - Marc Bolan
"When I'm doing a drawing, I get lots of ideas. I use them in my songs, even. I do a lot of drawings because that's where I get most of my spending cash and I just always have to have new records, to get something to satisfy my listening pleasure." - Daniel Johnston, RIP
"I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences." - Peter Tosh
"As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more." - Otis Redding
"On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing." - Michael Stipe
"All I can really remember doing was listening to the radio and listening to records when I was at school. I wasn't very academic, and I certainly wasn't a very good student." - Chrissie Hynde, born this day in 1951.
"A guitar player goes on the road, and he misses his girlfriend for a while, but he manages to get along. A horn player gets out on the road, plays two or three towns, and then he'll get lonely, and next thing you know, he's packed up and left. It's better not to hire him in the first place." - Albert King
"What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?" - Freddie Mercury, born this day in 1946.
"I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise." - Kim Thayil
"Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were way too many people who agreed with each other." - James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem
"With Guided by Voices it doesn't need age restrictions. It can be as "far out" or "immature" as necessary." - Robert Pollard
"Artists should re-emphasize performance and de-emphasize recording. Don't make recording the most important thing you do. Make performing the most important thing you do." - Todd Rundgren
"On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone." - Janis Joplin
"I just want to hear something I haven't heard before." - John Peel, DJ extraordinaire, born this day in 1939.
"I am very grateful to punk because I was a girl, and I felt like if I got in a band, I'd be kind of a novelty act, but punk was all about non-discrimination. No one cared because it was punk, so, you know, anyone could do anything they wanted." - Chrissie Hynde
"We were the Spice Boys." - George Harrison
"I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk. I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!" - Stevie Ray Vaughan, lost this day in 1990.
"My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant." - Elvis Costello
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