Band/Musician Quotes

We'd force them to listen to their own records until they exploded!
- Dexter Holland (The Offspring)- on torturing boy bands

I am so good at screaming in my music. I could even scream so loud that my dog can hear me and come home.
- Jacoby Shaddix (Papa Roach)

I call it Arthur.
- George Harrison , 1964, when asked what the Beatles called their haircuts.

I was in a band called the Deltones and we had one last gig at Battersea [south London] before it broke up. The guys who ran the place told us, 'There's no competition - you'll wipe the floor with everybody. It's just a bunch of long-haired weirdos called the Rolling Stones.' They were OK but no big hit with the audience, the way they looked we wondered why they didn't get ice-cream thrown at themselves.
Afterwards we thought, no problem, we'll never have to bother about them again.

- Jeff Beck

"What do I know about counting? I only have to count to four for my living."

- Tre Cool (Green Day)

(about turning down a makeover from the Queer Eye guys) "I'd be pissed if they cut off all my hair. That's where I get my thunder. Shazam!" - Claudio Sanchez

I dont usually have dreams.
I'm too busy sleeping to dream.
- Zac Hanson

If I didnt have some kind of education, I wouldnt be able to count my money!
- Missy Elliott - on the value of a diploma

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
- Bob Newhart