Ben Harper Quotes

My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there, or you're struggling to get back to where you were.

I intend to grow old very disgracefully.

If Hank Williams had lived any longer, his name would have been one of the most hated in the land. Nashville would have dug him deep.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.

In this business, you're as good as your last hit record, and mine was more than 26 years ago.

I would hope somebody out there will still want to hear a Backstreet Boys song when I'm 50-something.

I want to rock till I drop. I love rock and roll music. It keeps you young.

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.

I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to put up a bit of a fight.

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.

I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.

I had known that I'd wanted to be an actor from a very early age, but I had always known that I wanted to have a dual career. I wanted to be an actor, and I also at that time wanted to be a rock star.

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.