With the punk thing, everyone was making impractical attacks on being rich or  having money, ya know, but they all wanted to be rich - Boy George 

Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Rachel Welch to the back of a bus - Boy George

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do - Elvis Costello

I wake up some nights and I think, “Orchestral maneuvers in the Dark”!? What a stupid name! Why did we pick that one? - Andy McClusky (Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark)

I'm an instant star, just add water and stir - David Bowie

Rock 'n' roll is quite fun and everything, but I'm only using it as a medium - David Bowie

Boy George makes me sick – Madonna

I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA... - Martin Fry (ABC)

There’s nothing special in driving a Grand Prix car in 300 KPH…Not in a straight line anyway…The speed itself is only a mean to connect between two dots, or, in my terms, two curves...What happens in the curves excites me the most. The challenge is to drive as fast as you can between them also - Michael Schumacher

Achievement is for the senators and scholars. At one time I had ambitions, but I had them removed by a doctor in Buffalo - Tom Waits

When you're as rich as I am, you don't have to be political – Sting

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do - there are only so many notes one human being can master - Prince 

...We would try to play other people's songs, but we just couldn't play them. We played them so badly, we decided to write our own songs – Bono (U2)

Anybody that walks can sing - Michael Stipe (REM)

It's what you learn after you know it - all that counts  - John Wooden

The politicians are mistaken taking the weathercock for a flag  - Victor Hugo

Police is a pop band, definitely not a rock band. We write music that window cleaners can whistle  - Sting

There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers - Captain Beefheart

What we do needs a lot of concentration - Johnny Ramone-Ramones

If someone is waiting for me to die, he can forget it. I'm already dead  - Iggy Pop

It wasn't called Heavy Metal when I invented it  - Dave Davis-Kinks

Z.Z. Top is like Communism…they have eight millions fans but you can't recognize them - Robert Duncan

To sing Folk – it's a bunch of fat people - Bob Dylan

All I want from life is a lot of booze, a lot of girls and as many drugs as…and a place to have while I'm doing that  - Rat Scabies-Damned

I really think something's wrong with me  - Ray Davis-Kinks

A lot of bands have this romantic attitude to jail. We have practical attitude to it - Jean-Jacque Burnel-Stranglers

I have this strange feeling of the only person so far who has left the Rolling Stones and still alive - Mick Taylor

I don't have any preferences at all. I prefer five dollars to three dollars -Iggy Pop

I think the human body is the ugliest thing ever made - John Lydon

Mothers still hide their kids from me in airports -Alice Cooper

Mainly I helped to erase The Sixties  - Iggy Pop

My bullshit worth more than other's diamonds  - Lou Reed

Definitely there is something good in Tubular Bells, but I can't point out at it exactly - Mike Oldfield

Sid Vicious is the greatest bass player in the world. I know because I taught him everything  - Captain Sensible-Damned

I really loved those "Blue suede shoes". If you were as poor as we were, you'd like any kind of shoes  - Carl Perkins

I was kinda weird. My hair was mashed up with white color and vegetable tones and I was wearing black all day. I was an art student  - Debby Harry-Blondie

As much as I can remember, I suffer from amnesia  -       John Cooper Clark

When I was a child I put all my energy and effort in things like shoplifting. I used to get into troubles. I used to bite people  - Ellen Pholey

We need to call ourselves – Grace Sick and the Jefferson Wheelchair  - Marty Balin-Jefferson Airplane

Catholic girls can't think of themselves as stars…too much fucking guilt feelings - Sharlo-Go Go's

Lately I'm getting better in normal relationships as saying "please" and "thank you", things like that  - David Byrne-Talking Heads

I am very nice to people. I mean, I have my bad side, but I don't think I'm really nasty. I think there are a lot of people who think that maybe I am really. Fuck them  -      Debby Harry-Blondie

My Teeth-I don't like how they stand out. I always think of arranging them but I don't have time. Besides, I'm perfect  - Freddy Mercury-Queen

I thought to myself, half of my life I lived as a man, so why not live the other half as a woman? - Jayne County (ex Wayne County)

The only problem in going to Heaven is that I'm afraid they don't have night clubs there  - Tom Waits

If God can save me, an old queer, he can save anybody - Little Richard

We are in God's thing, but he can be the devil too - Bill Ward-Black Sabbath

I don't think Patti Smith can walk on water, but I would like to see her trying -Dave Marsh

In Glasgow, a kid climbed up the toilet pipe, stuck his hand into the dressing room window and shouted "Touch me! Touch me!" so I answered him, "Go fuck yourself, I'm not the Pope!" -      Ian Dury