Quotes by Musician

"For me, it's always been about trying to do something that's more than just music. It's about trying to change the world."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

Impact, Music, Change, World

"The greatest applause I should ever receive is the whisper of my children saying, 'Momma, you're a warrior.'"

Lady Gaga, American Musician

Family, Children, Applause, Warrior

"It's okay to be different. It's okay to be unique. It's okay to be weird. It's okay to stand out."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

Individuality, Difference, Uniqueness, Standing out

"I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

Identity, Glamour, Performance

"Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

Identity, Makeup, Consistency

"I suppose that I didn't really know what I was signing up for when I decided to be a pop singer. My plan was to conquer the world and then be myself."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

Ambition, Music, Conquest, Self

"Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

Country, Road

"Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

People, Boston, Surprises

"By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

Art, Time, Committee, Nothing

"I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

First, Kings, Play

"I like 1977 because it is more primitive. If it were modern day, like one Universal guy was like wouldn't they just use their cell phone? I guess he did not read that it was 1977 in the script."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

Day,

"I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

Dawn, Fun, School, Theater

"I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

Entertainment,

"I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

Fans, Hurt, Songs, Will

"I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

Quality,

"It was like fighting with the MPAA... to me it was like this is an R easy... but it was NC 17 over and over and even with this cut they were like, you are right on the edge buddy, one more thing and it's NC-17."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

Fight, Fighting, Right

"It'd be like what would happen if Hollywood took over porno: 'If we keep their clothes on and they didn't have sex, we'd be able to sell it to a lot more people'."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

Sex, People, Clothes, Hollywood

"You know... the only person I really had to please after a point was the MPAA. Because Lions' Gate was like, hey, whatever you can get away with is fine, we don't care."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

Care,

"NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

Death, Kiss, Advertising, Choice

"The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?"

Rob Zombie, American Musician

People, Want

"The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

People, Being, Name

"White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

Kids, Reason

"It's never been about making money."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

Money,

"My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Father, Interest

"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Music, Folk

"My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

People, Memory

"That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Business,

"I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Composer, Composers

"Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Time,

"Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Past, Projects

"I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Guitar,

"Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

First,

"I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Music, Attention, Enjoyment, Holly

"I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Time, Life, Jazz

"I'll sleep when I'm dead."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Sleep,

"Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Error, First, Years

"It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Years,

"The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Being,

"I have no guitar technique."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Guitar,

"My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

First,

"Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Home,

"So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Years,

"Dylan can do no wrong."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Wrong,

"For me, it's always been about trying to do something that's more than just music. It's about trying to change the world."

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"The greatest applause I should ever receive is the whisper of my children saying, 'Momma, you're a warrior.'"

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"It's okay to be different. It's okay to be unique. It's okay to be weird. It's okay to stand out."

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"Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body."

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"I'm not a sandwich. I'm not a piece of meat."

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"The ultimate accessory is the one that reflects your heart."

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"People will always talk, so let's give them something to talk about."

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"It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love."

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"I am just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time."

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"Don't sell out to this business. Sell into it."

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"I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one."

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"Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside."

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"I suppose that I didn't really know what I was signing up for when I decided to be a pop singer. My plan was to conquer the world and then be myself."

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"Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed."

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"Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid."

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"By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee."

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"I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey."

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"I like 1977 because it is more primitive. If it were modern day, like one Universal guy was like wouldn't they just use their cell phone? I guess he did not read that it was 1977 in the script."

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"I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun."

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"I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad."

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"I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on."

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"I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie."

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"It was like fighting with the MPAA... to me it was like this is an R easy... but it was NC 17 over and over and even with this cut they were like, you are right on the edge buddy, one more thing and it's NC-17."

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"It'd be like what would happen if Hollywood took over porno: 'If we keep their clothes on and they didn't have sex, we'd be able to sell it to a lot more people'."

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"You know... the only person I really had to please after a point was the MPAA. Because Lions' Gate was like, hey, whatever you can get away with is fine, we don't care."

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"NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice."

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"The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?"

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"The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name."

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"White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it."

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"It's never been about making money."

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"My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think."

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"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

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"My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this."

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"That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business."

​

"I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him."

​

"Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time."

​

"Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade."

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"I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid."

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"Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage."

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"I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously."