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These are some of the best Quotes From Rock Stars From The 1960's, contributed
by various online 60's fans:
[Italized comments are by me, not the person who contributed them].
John Lennon:
"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."
"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
-- Contributed by peacelovebrindling
"And then we went back to Liverpool and got quite a few bookings you know and they all
thought we were German, we were billed as "From Hamburg" and they all said
'you speak good English.'"
"You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact.
And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth."
-- Contributed by emeraldqueene
George Harrison:
"We do like the fans and enjoy reading the publicity about us,
but from time to time you don't realize it's about yourself."
"The Beatles will exist without us."
"The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George.
Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and
until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me."
"The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962.
The second biggest break since then is getting out of them."
-- Contributed by emeraldqueene
Janis Joplin:
"And by some fluke of an accident I discovered that I had this incredibly loud voice.
So I started singing blues because that was always what I liked and you know I got
into this bluegrass band, played hillbilly music for free beer."
Q: What do you think young people are looking for today?
"This whole success thing, um, it hasn't yet really compromised the
position that I took a really long time ago in Texas. That was to be
true to myself, be the person that I-- that was on the inside of me and
not to play games is what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world
is to not bullshit myself."
-- Contributed by emeraldqueene
Frank Zappa:
"If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they're gonna murder you in your sleep."
"I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?"
-- Senate Hearing on "Porn Rock", 1985, in response to Tipper Gore's allegations
that music incites people towards deviant behavior, or influences their behavior in general.
"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."
"Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny."
Interviewer: "So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?"
-- Contributed by dorktastic
Cass Eliot:
"I could have been a pharmacist. I'd make a good one. I'm jolly."
"I took psychedelics. It was on an acid trip that I realized I was pregnant, as a matter of fact."
"I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia.
Or was it Baltimore?"
"I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me.
Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood."
"You know instinctively what you can do."
-- Contributed by emeraldqueene
John Phillips:
"I was dropped on my head when I was three years old. He was throwing me in the air
and catching me they called his name and he looked the other way and I went PGGH.
So I've heard harmony ever since. When I hear a melody I hear a harmony to it. Strange."
"Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also."
"We were doing the Monterey Pop Festival, which I produced with Lou Adler, and the
town of Monterey was sort of frightened by the thought of two hundred and fifty
thousand hippies coming."
"We would do almost anything to survive at that time. We were living on a pound of bologna,
a loaf of bread and a jar of mayonnaise each week."
"Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless
task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can."
-- Contributed by emeraldqueene
Michelle Phillips:
"When I came to San Francisco in 1962 I got interessed in folk music, but mainly in folk musicians."
-- Contributed by girlinyellowdress
Jimi Hendrix:
"All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel."
-- Contributed by peacelovebrindling
"When I feel like playing with my teeth I do
it because I feel like it. When I'm onstage I'm a complete natural,
more so than talking to a group of people or something."
"Anybody can protest you know and anybody can write beautiful
songs and all that, but sometimes if you have a talent or people are
noticing you enough, then you should really try to do as much as possibly
can you know. Like what we're going to do now is chop down words now and
try to make it really tight and what we're sayin' is not protesting but
giving the answers and some kind of solution you know. Instead of going
towards the negative."
"I got woken up at seven o'clock in the morning and
I'm really sleepy, but then I open the door and see somebody
that appeals to me. Well I, first of all I think 'What in the world is she
doing here?' and she says 'Oh maybe can I come in?' She's really nice-looking
you know. It's the honest-to-God truth, she's about nineteen or twenty, or
beyond the age of so-and-so. And I say 'Oh' and I probably stand there and then..."
Bob Dylan:
"All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie."
"I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me."
"If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself."
"Money doesn't talk, it swears."
"Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything."
"No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky."
"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run
by those that never listen to music anyway."
-- Contributed by dorktastic
Harry Nilsson:
"I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points,
and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought,
'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it."
-- Contributed by peacelovebrindling
Elvis:
"Ma'am, I'm not tryin' to be sexy. Ah didn't have any clear ideah of trying to sell sex.
It's just my way of expressin' how I feel when I move around. It's all leg movement.
Ah don't do nothin' with my body."
-- Contributed by peacelovebrindling
Paul McCartney:
"We've played many palaces, including Frisco's Cow Palace. But never this one before.
It's a keen pad and I like the staff. Thought they'd be dukes and things but they were just fellas."
-- on Buckingham Palace
-- Contributed by emeraldqueene
Mick Jagger:
"I'm just the same as a stripper. I go out there and do the same thing, bumps and grinds
to music and take off lots of my clothes. I mean there's not a lot of difference between
stripping and being a rock singer."
Keith Richards:
"Yeah my buddy old Lucifer it went like this. Maybe we are I don't know, it was a lark.
Five guitar players, we're gonna overthrow the country. They like revolutionaries.
Christ just smoking a little dope, then you've got half of Scotland Yard working full
time on you. Surely you've got better things to do, boy."
"We were in a little motel with a swimming pool and was right next
to a freeway and obviously some outraged southern comfort had driven
by and seen these long haired people with no bras on in the swimming pool.
So ten minutes later, here comes the state troopers, good ole' redneck boys
to arrest these chicks for topless bathing. What? So they're taken 'em back,
we don't understand why we're supposed to be arrested anyway because we're-sorry
I left the Bra in London alright?"
-- Contributed by emeraldqueene
Quotes On The Montery Pop Festival:
"Monterey was the first time Hendrix ever played for an American audience.
It was the first time Otis Redding ever played for a white audience. It was the
first time the San Francisco groups ever played for an international audience outside
the city limits of San Francisco." --John Phillips
"The Who and Jimi were determined to outdo each other and I'm not
really sure who one you know. Jimi humped the amp, broke his guitar,
burned it up in flames. The Who blew up the entire stage." --John Phillips
"Both acts, the Who and Hendrix smashed up equipment during their appearance there,
and yet, one is like a violent rape and the other is like an erotic sacrifice." --Eric Burdon
"I couldn't deal with the idea that at this critical concert, that we might go on after
Jimi, and he said to me 'you want to be first up there with the guitar smashing' so I said
'Jimi I swear to you that's not what it's about.' And Jimi started to play, he stood on a
chair and he started to play at me like 'don't f*** with me you little sh**.'
Then he snapped out of it and he put the guitar down and said 'alright let's
toss a coin.' So we tossed a coin, and we got to go on first." --Pete Townshend
"He (Hendrix) then went on immediately after us. I don't think there was anybody in between.
So I went out to sit with Mama Cass to watch Jimi, and he started doing stuff with his guitar,
she turned around to me and she said, 'he's stealing your act.' And I said, no he's not stealing
my act--he's doing my act." --Pete Townshend
"The bohemian element that had been a minority became a majority.
It seemed to take over the whole planet." --Roger McGuinn
"And there was a great sense of 'yeah there's a future, there's a future for us all'
even thought the world was in flames all around Asia." --Eric Burdon
"I saw a community form and live together for three days. It's so sad it has to break up."
--Brian Jones
-- Contributed by emeraldqueene
Transcript of Graham Nash and David Crosby discussing Neil Young:
Nash: Neil was something else, what a piece of work he was.
-- Contributed by emeraldqueene
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