Marc Bolan Quotes

But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

Marijuana is used largely in the form of cigarettes, which cause delusions and produce insanity and often lead to atrocities that only a drugsoaked mind could conceive. Marijuana is a sinister drug that has only recently become available and popular among the younger element

Rock bands are not exactly magnets of functional people.

You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

All of your brain cells rotting from weed, feeling like if you ain’t got it life’s not as complete.

Drugs are wrong. They burn out your brain and they sear your soul.

Drug education is the only vaccine we have against the danger of drug abuse of our children.

Of course, the primary interest of the Bureau of Narcotics is the enforcement aspect. From this point of view it is very unfortunate that Doctors Allentuck and Bowman should have stated so unqualifiedly that the use of marijuana does not lead to physical, mental or moral deterioration

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mumbling my words and slurring. It won't be because I am drunk: it will be the fighting, taking blow after blow to the brain. That scares me. I don't worry about being killed in the ring; it's losing my mind that I fear.

I forget a lot of things sometimes. I'm not one to sit here and complain. While I did not know the severity of what continuous head traumas could do to an individual and the mind and so forth, I'm not going to sit here and complain.

No one should do drugs thinking that they will make a great record. That's not the way to go, for sure.

I work to raise awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving and substance abuse, primarily with youth.

I meet with retired football players. Some are well-dressed, some are well-spoken, but when you talk to them personally, they will admit to you that they are having problems. But they are managing their problems. They have impaired memory, they're having mood problems. They are being treated by their psychiatrists.

The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place.

Rock records. It's the main source of inspiration for people - fans, or musicians, or both - to act out in ways that they wouldn't normally act out. Especially rock critics. Ultimately, records don't really hurt anybody, and neither do reviews.

I got a generation brainwashed to pop pills and smoke pot til they brains rot.

There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me

I used to get drunk every night until I puked. Finally I admitted, "I am a bulemic".

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there.

The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

I sold my soul to rock 'n' roll.