John Lennon Quotes

Some of my early musical memories are attached to grunge.

There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.

I couldn't think of anything worse than hating your own music and having to play it every night. It would be a nightmare.

'Downward Spiral' felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me and I had to somehow challenge something or I'd explode. I thought I could get through by putting everything into my music, standing in front of an audience and screaming emotions at them from my guts.

When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn't carry on with it, which I regret.

When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.

I have memories of doing 'Toys In The Attic' and being on the floor next to my drums, on my back, laughing.

I've taken all the mirrors out of my house because when I'm playing onstage, I feel like I'm still in high school. I feel like that kid that wanted to play in his first band, and then I look in a mirror, and it's like, 'Uh-oh!' It ain't pretty.

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar

There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

We're gonna rock around the clock.

As an actress, I'm supposed to create something from head to toes, with clues, with lines, with shapes, and even with that power, I felt lost and not in control.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Maybe people would be surprised to know that I listen to old Neil Diamond albums from time to time. The man rocks. I defy anyone to prove me wrong.

We are looking at these rock 'n' roll campers, and we know what is going on in their minds because we've been there.

It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.

I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.

I Still Have Everything You Gave Me It is dusty on the edges. It is slightly rotten. I guard it without thinking. I focus on it once a year when I shake it out in the wind. I do not ache. I would not trade.

And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again.

Find myself a rock and roll band, that needs a helping hand.

Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.

Every one of those old songs like "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things" is like a tattoo or a scrapbook or an old photograph. There are just songs that define certain moments in your life. Everyone has a song that got them through a bad breakup or they put on and it made them feel like they wanted to go out and kick the world's ass with their friends on a weekend. Those songs still feel like that to me.

If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each.

For me, Molly Hatchet is high school. It makes me feel like I have hair and a future.

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all.