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    Posted: March 25 2014 at 01:30
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read"
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2014 at 11:37
Quoting someone I think but...
"Seeing this Show it was interesting watching Neal sing about God with a drummer that looked like Jesus that played like he sold his soul to the devil."
-Mike Portnoy
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2014 at 05:34
If this RateYourMusic list has not been published yet, you folks might find it amusing.
"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2014 at 04:07
Ian Anderson explaining why Jethro Tull skipped Woodstock

"I asked our manager, Terry Ellis, "Well, who else is going to be there?" And he listed a large number of groups who were reputedly going to play, and that it was going to be a hippie festival, and I said, "Will there be lots of naked ladies? And will there be taking drugs and drinking lots of beer, and fooling around in the mud?" Because rain was forecast. And he said, "Oh, yeah." So I said, "Right. I don't want to go." Because I don't like hippies, and I'm usually rather put off by naked ladies unless the time is right."
"Du gehst zu Frauen? Vergiss die Peitsche nicht!"
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2014 at 03:27
"Yes, we sold out... every single concert!" - Gene Simmons
"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 09 2014 at 01:50
Keith Emerson
''the best thing about this band is that I'm the leader!''

Greg Lake
''unless you go forward then you are going back''


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 08 2014 at 16:09

Not a quote from a prog rock figure, but from the classical composer Bela Bartok, who influenced acts like King Crimson and ELP:

"Competitions are for horses, not for artists."

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 08 2014 at 11:00
One of my favorites from Annie Lennox:

"There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't".
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2014 at 21:10
and music, well, it's just entertainment folks! - Devin Townsend

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2014 at 12:40
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

 
Interviewer: "Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia - what does it mean?"
DB: "They are three powerful, emotive words"
Interviewer: "Aren't they contradictory?"
DB: "...?"




"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2014 at 09:24
On Hall of the Mountain King, Grieg himself wrote, "For the Hall of the Mountain King I have written something that so reeks of cowpatsultra-Norwegianism, and 'to-thyself-be-enough-ness' that I can't bear to hear it, though I hope that the irony will make itself felt."[
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2014 at 07:53
^ Mr Steele was often one for a droll quip. We'll not see his like again I imagine.

I've mentioned this one before, an interview with Dimmu Borgir in Metal Hammer (or Terrorizer) a few years ago:
 
Interviewer: "Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia - what does it mean?"
DB: "They are three powerful, emotive words"
Interviewer: "Aren't they contradictory?"
DB: "...?"

...always make me smile that one.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2014 at 06:55
"If you're gonna throw sh*t at us, at least have the guts to come up to the front of the stage to do it!" - Peter Steele
"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2014 at 06:28
David Gilmour during an interview segment of 'Live At Pompeii'
" Many people think of us as a very drug orientated band, but we're not - you can trust us " then chuckles wryly. He was probably baked at time.......
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2013 at 22:03
 
"Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass."
Zappa

Edited by dr wu23 - December 30 2013 at 22:03
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2013 at 19:16
"Before you play two notes learn how to play one note – and don't play one note unless you've got a reason to play it." - Mark Hollis (of Talk Talk)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2013 at 17:39
This web-page has a Zappa quote about record-making buried in it somewhere. Anyone cares to help? I believe it's this one:

Originally posted by Frank Zappa Frank Zappa wrote:

Picture a triangle – quality, time, price. You can choose two of these corners.

  • If you want it to be good and quick, it ain’t gonna be cheap.
  • If you want it to be quick and cheap, it ain’t gonna be good.
  • If you want it to be cheap and good, it ain’t gonna be quick.

Frank Zappa (studio door sign)



Edited by Dayvenkirq - December 30 2013 at 17:39
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2013 at 17:46
Originally posted by catfood03 catfood03 wrote:

"I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness." - Ted Nugent

Hunh??


I think he's talking about having relations with wild animals.  That's just the kind of twisted Censoredbag he is.
I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2013 at 17:27
"It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat."
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2013 at 13:19
"If I sit down, I don't know about that music, I don't write, I don't read, I don't know chords. I literally don't know what chords are. But I know what works."

                                                                                - Peter Hammill in an article of some magazine.


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