May 2012
3 posts
“Our fan base has always been predominantly male, but the 20% women are all...”
– Pete Townshend (2004)
“Listening to him sing — it’s one of those indications that the human race isn’t...”
– Chris Cornell on Jeff Buckley for Rolling Stone. Jeff was placed 39th on their list of Top 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. (via moodswingwhiskey)
“Start a band… Especially girls. They should start bands. There aren’t enough...”
– Kurt Cobain (via savoytrufflee)
April 2012
9 posts
“It’s all wrong to even talk about rock ‘n’ roll but I don’t want to talk about...”
– Pete Townshend (1978)
“The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.”
– George Harrison (via mccartneymadness)
“I wanted to be totally Led Zeppelin in a way and then be totally extreme punk...”
– Kurt Cobain (via oh-so-zoso)
“The other day I slept. It was great.”
– Thom Yorke, after being asked “what’s the most fun you had this week?”, 1994. (via radioheadofficial)
“My heart’s in music. It doesn’t really matter what type of music it is.”
– John Paul Jones. (via oystertranscenders)
“You can’t cheat kids. If you cheat them when they’re children they’ll make you...”
– John Lennon (via beatlesneveroutofstyle)
“My mother likes our music, so if I can please her, that means we’re doing...”
– Kurt Cobain (via theplanetofsound)
“If he [Paul McCartney] fell on a piano, by the time he picked himself up he...”
– Donovan (via elizabitchtaylor)
“People talk about mobs. But the whole purpose of a rock concert is for people to...”
– Pete Townshend, 1979 (via anire)
March 2012
14 posts
“Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll”
– Keith Richards (via vintagelovingfreak)
“I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.”
– Kurt Cobain (via d-irtyfilthyparadise)
“I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there.”
– Morrissey (1991)
“Let yourself go and you’ll be more than you’ve ever thought of being.”
– Janis Joplin (via moonlight—-drive)
“When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will...”
– Jeff Buckley (via jeffbuckleyforever)
“My dog recognised me when I got back from the States. He ran around in circles...”
– Robert Plant (via oldmendoitbetter)
“I’ve always thought of going back to a place where you can drink tea and sit on...”
– Syd Barrett (via an-irregular-mind)
“He quite clearly had his feet on the ground and his head and his imagination was...”
–
Jimmy Page on Jeff Buckley. From the BBC Documentary, Everybody Here Wants You.
(via jeff-buckley)
“I like the way that songs sort of have light, and sort of travel around despite...”
– Jeff Buckley (via i-shit-and-i-stink)
“I’ve never been able to go to bed with a women just for sex. I’ve no interest in...”
– Keith Richards (Life) (via stonesnzombies)
“It’s hard to explain why certain music is good. It’s something that gets inside...”
– Jeff Buckley (via jeffbuckleyforever)
“Well, I sort of don’t trust anybody who doesn’t like Led Zeppelin.”
– Jack White. (via stephanievelyn)
February 2012
10 posts
“I still can’t get over the frustration, the guilt and empathy I have for...”
– Kurt Cobain (via almostgolden)
“You are all geniuses, and you are all beautiful. You don’t need anyone to tell...”
– John Lennon (via psychedelic-moon)
“Kurt loved The Beatles because it was just so simple. Well, it seemed simple…...”
– Dave Grohl, talking about how The Beatles influenced the music of Nirvana. (via theenglish-way)
“You looking for your life over there, honey, you wonder where your life is? Your...”
– Janis Joplin (via classof1969)
“YOLO? Really? Fuck no. I died seventeen times and I came back to life seventeen...”
– Keith Richards (via incorrectkeithrichardsquotes)
“Robert Plant was always my favorite singer-and he’s said nice things about me,...”
– Freddie Mercury on Robert Plant (via queenmercuryrockyhorrorair)
2 tags
“I think it’s the most natural thing in the world to make fun of stuff.
Because...”
– Frank Zappa (via deadniggastorage)
“No one should cover Zeppelin. That’s like slapping your Grandma in the face or...”
– Dave Grohl (via punk-floyd)
January 2012
5 posts
“I’ve said that it’s shaped like a woman, you know, you can touch it and caress...”
– Jimmy Page on guitars (via seiteanseite)
“I started to think about being the only person who sees something. Maybe that’s...”
– Jack White (via naominight)
“I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.”
– Thom Yorke (via nirvikalpa)
“One day my telephone rang & some guy at the other end said “Hello, is this...”
– David Bowie (via peechitto)
December 2011
6 posts
“Mick Jagger called us the four-headed monster because we went everywhere...”
– Paul McCartney (via crywaithope)
6 tags
“It’s gotta be Rock the Casbah because I’ve had the great pleasure of being in...”
– Damon Albarn on Combat Rock being one of his favorite albums, Vinyl Revival 2011 (via beach-coma)
“We sort of nicked Paul Simonon from an art college. We said, ‘Throw those old...”
– Joe Strummer, 1997 (via lets-swim-to-the-moon)
2 tags
“I’m not as cynical as I appear to be. Not even close. But I have come to the...”
– Matthew Good (via arrest)
“Mostly what I did growing up was bide my time.”
– Bob Dylan (via liquorsetmefree)
November 2011
31 posts
“This is the one that sucked me in. I was a 14-year-old kid with this blue...”
– Ozzy Osborne, on “She Loves You”
(Rolling Stone magazine / December 2010)
“I once received a bra… with “I Love John” embroidered on it. It thought it was...”
– John Lennon. (via mindgamesss)