Quotes from rock musicians in English with translation. Quotes from great rock musicians

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Hippies strove for peace and love. We rockers only wanted Ferraris, blondes and Finnish knives. I can’t even believe that such people could create such deep music (Alice Cooper).

Sometimes, when having sex with a guitar, you can extract sounds from it that you cannot make with your hands (Ritchie Blackmore).

What keeps us in good shape? Chicks, stage sweat and alcohol... Did you think I was going to say “vitamins”? (Bon Scott, AC/DC).

When the power of love surpasses the love of power, there will be peace on Earth (Jim Hendrix).

My philosophy of life is simple: I need to love someone, wait for something and do something (Elvis Presley).

They say that money can't buy love? Believe me, only beggars and losers say that (Jim Simmons, “Kiss”).

The only thing I love more than my wife is money. And I won't give them to her or her lawyers, that's for damn sure! (Jon Bon Jovi).

My wife said, "Why don't you write a song about me?" I took it and wrote the song “Baba with Eggs.” Then she divorced me (Bonn Scott, AC/DC).

You may not be her first, not her last, and not her only. She loved before she loved again. But if she loves you now, what else is wrong? (Bob Marley).

Any dancing is just a substitute for sex. What are you doing while listening to us? (Mick Jagger).

Do you know where a woman's G-Spot is? - What? What? What the hell is this G-spot? Tell me where it is and I can have some fun! Several times I almost found it! Next time, I'll take my damn miner's lamp with me and give it a thorough inspection (Ozzy Ozbourne).

Love is not something you can see yourself with. It's someone you can't see yourself without (Jared Leto).

Women love men who can cry, right? Do you love it?! Men who don't cry are not real men, in my opinion. But that's just my opinion (Brian Molko).

We praise the three most important things on earth - peace, love and rock and roll (Rudolf Schenker "Scorpions.")

Love is the answer and you probably know it (John Lennon).

If you can't say it in a three-minute song, you can't say it at all.
Noddy Holder (b. 1950) British rock musician

Sometimes an orgasm is better than playing rock in front of an audience. Sometimes playing rock in front of an audience is better than an orgasm.
Mick Jagger (b. 1943), British rock musician

Rock is the hamburger that devoured the whole world.
Peter York (b. 1950), English journalist

Rock bands are a working class society of idleness.
Arthur Brown (b. 1944) English rock singer

Some rock musicians make a lot of money to shovel it down their noses. And I put my money where my mouth is.
Frank Zappa

To create a superstar, you must first shut her mouth. Getting the public too close to an artist can ruin him.
Bob Ezrin, American rock producer

For rock musicians, the muse must be somewhat deaf.
Leonid Krainov Rytov (b. 1946), writer

Rock music is performed at such a tempo that you don’t have time to understand what melody it is and who it was stolen from.

If I'm too loud for you, then you're too old for me.
Steve Bators, rock musician

Our music is folk music technological era.
Jimmy Page, rock singer

It's bad if your videos are better than your songs.
George Boy

Rock is not art; rock is the way common guys talk.
Billy Idol

Rock journalism: guys who can't talk are interviewed by guys who can't write, so guys who can't read have something to read.
Frank Zappa

When I met Elvis, he had a million dollars' worth of talent. Now he has a million dollars.
Tom Parker on Elvis Presley

Blues is when to a good person Badly.

Why not make it so that popular songs can only be listened to by those among whom they are popular?

Pop music is a tricky business. Today you are a complete mediocrity, tomorrow you are the idol of millions.

1. Almost all the music we listened to in our youth is no good.
2. Almost all the music our children listen to is no good.
Jean Liz

When you are already thirty-five, something strange begins to happen with music.
Steve Race

Having gone out of fashion, music does not become any worse, and yet it no longer makes an impression on the simple-minded hearts of young girls. Perhaps they only liked her because she delighted young people.
Stendhal

A rock band is alive as long as it sees itself in its listeners.
Bruce Springsteen

For rock musicians, the muse must be somewhat deaf.
Leonid Krainov-Rytoe

There is one immutable rule that all types of music obey, something like an unwritten law. I don't know what this rule is, but I always follow it.
Ron Wood

In the 1950s Elvis rebelled against the establishment, in the sixties he entertained the establishment, and in the seventies he was the establishment himself.
Jerry Hopkins

All I want is for John Lennon Airport to have a baggage belt with my name on it: "Luggage from Malaga arrived on Ringo's Ribbon."
Ringo Starr

The only thing pleasing about Yoko Ono's recordings is the crackle of the record.
S. A. Saks

Change musical style impossible without changing your clothing style.
Frank Zappa

Punk music is just a way to sell pants.
Malcolm McLaren

I'm not proud of anything in my life. I'm not proud of the fact that I'm a dropout. I'm not proud to be an alcoholic. I'm not proud to be a drug addict. I'm not proud of biting my head off bat. But it could have been worse. I could have been born Sting.
Ozzy Osbourne

When I was seven years old, the world of rock music fascinated and fascinated me - I admired the way these singers screamed at the top of their lungs about good and evil, proclaiming themselves either angels or devils, while the mortals around them had fun. Sometimes it seemed like they were just crazy. However, their performances always amazed them with their technical complexity and excellent organization. I think that in the entire history of its existence the world has never seen anything like it - such an amazing combination of wild barbarism and intelligence.

A completely different aesthetic is created. For rock, what is important is not what is abstractly beautiful or lies in line with some musical tradition. Rock music is only as good as what it reflects. inner world of his generation. Probably no one expressed this idea as brightly and loudly as the Beatles.

Last night I listened to old songs, turned over the performers in my mind and thought that the statements of many of them had already become popular. Moreover, not only quotes, but also phrases from interviews. I searched and searched - there really is a lot of things! That's why I'm sharing what I've selected with you...

"I will calmly leave the planet, because I know that my music will remain after me"
Alex Van Halen, Van Halen

"Everything you need is already within you. I believe that people create their own heaven and their own hell. It's a personal choice."
Karl Logan, Manowar

“One part of me constantly worries that I am an ordinary loser, while the other thinks that I am the Lord God.”
John Lennon, Beatles

“I never liked to delve into myself. Neither in life, nor in music. Sometimes it’s better to give up on everything. Just go on stage and ROCK!”
Freddie Mercury, Queen

“I don’t know what will disappear first, religion or rock... I’m betting on religion...”
John Lennon, Beatles

“Things that went to those who waited are things that were left behind by those who got them on their own.”
Steven Tyler, Aerosmith

“Your wrinkles can tell you one thing: either you are constantly irritated or you are constantly smiling.”
Carlos Santana

Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin

“There is never a time when I am satisfied with something. I constantly try to improve my music.”

"The only force that pushes us forward is music, and not at all the desire to become famous"
Roger Waters, Pink Floyd

“No concepts - only your own impressions, emotions and experience - that’s what rock is!”
Ian Gillan, Black Sabbath | Deep Purple

"Rock is played not by notes, but by intuition"
Brian May, Queen

“The first instrument that people invented was the drum. Because people wanted to somehow reproduce the first sound they heard in life - the sound of a mother’s heart.”
Rick Savage, Def Leppard

"All this talk about metal and hard... I don't subscribe to a single word. Rock is just good music. You need to listen to him, not talk about him!”
Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath

“I never judge anyone. My favorite Indian proverb is: “Don’t judge another until you’ve walked two miles in his moccasins.”
Eric Adams, Manowar

“Someone told me recently that dying is hard and scary. It’s a lie! Dying is easy. What’s really hard is living.”
James Hetfield, Metallica

“If your environment does not allow you to dream, change it immediately!”
Billy Idol, Generation X

"IN modern world It's very hard to believe in the light at the end of the tunnel. Thank God we have good old rock!"
Matthias Jabs, Scorpions

"For every man driving force- this is a woman. Without a woman, even Napoleon would have been a simple idiot."
John Lennon, Beatles

“It’s better to die on the side of the road, but know that you did everything to achieve your goal. Than to live 100 years in prosperity, realizing that you betrayed yourself.”
Robert Plant Led Zeppelin

"Keep doing what you're doing. Pretend you're doing it until it's done."
Steven Tyler, Aerosmith

"Life is a journey, not a destination"
Steven Tyler, Aerosmith

"Music is music. And if it was created with feeling, then it is simply impossible not to notice it, no matter how old you are"
Daniel McCafferty, Nazareth

“There are times when nothing will light your path better than a burning bridge.”
Don Henley, Eagles

"When did I realize that rock is everywhere? It was when people who traveled in the Amazon told me that the native children washed clothes in the river and sang Wind Of Change."
Klaus Meine, Scorpions

“You don’t have to believe in yourself, but you absolutely have to believe in what you’re doing!”
Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin

“A person is not born for music alone. Therefore, never take music too seriously. Let it entertain you.”
Ritchie Blackmore, Deep Pupple | Rainbow

“There will always be both negative and positive people swirling around you. Just be yourself and do everything in your power. And don’t care about the opinions of others!”
,Joey DiMaio, Manowar

“Compared to rappers who become millionaires in 15 minutes, we are just poor people. But the fact of the matter is that we were never in music for the money. Our motivation is only music!”
Joe Elliott, Def Leppard

“The world is like a birthday pie. Take a piece, but don’t eat it all - otherwise your stomach won’t stand it.”
George Harrison, Beatles

“If you want to punch some venerable authority figure in the teeth, kick with both feet.”
Keith Richards, Rolling Stones

"Old age is when people talk more about your past than about your future"
Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones

“I hate all sorts of heroin snot. People sing about death and not wanting to live, and then they say: “Ciao! See you next year!” How can this be, guys? You’re going to die. Be honest with the fans!”
Matthias Jabs, Scorpions

"Real music will work for any generation!"
Roger Waters, Pink Floyd

"Fashion and music are incompatible things. I very rarely listen to new fashionable bands, more often they listen to me..."
Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath

"Does the devil have his own radio? Yes! It's gossip"
George Harrison, Beatles

"Every life has its own line of sadness. And, more often than not, when you cross this line, you wake up and start life again"
Steven Tyler, Aerosmith

“For concerts accompanied by a soundtrack, you have to pay with photocopies of money.”
Roni James Dio, Rainbow | Black Sabbath | Dio

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Blues is when a good person feels bad.

In mathematics there are no symbols for unclear thoughts.
Henri Poincaré.

Having gone out of fashion, music does not become any worse, and yet it no longer makes an impression on the simple-minded hearts of young girls. Perhaps they only liked her because she delighted young people.
Stendhal.

Only the birds sing for nothing.
Fyodor Chaliapin.

If only I knew the hit song of the trumpets of Jericho!
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.

If this is the first twenty of the hit parade, it’s scary to imagine what the last five numbers sound like.
Ch. Street.

If it is difficult for you to immediately understand all of infinity, try to understand it at least halfway.
Slawomir Wroblewski.

If a film is successful, it's a business. If a film doesn't do well, it's art.
Carlo Ponti.

If you want to know my opinion, not a single operatic tenor has ever died too early.
Thomas Beecham.

If I'm too loud for you, then you're too old for me.
Steve Bators, rock musician.

If... then..? - if this is not mathematics, then this is blackmail.
Henryk Jagodzinski.

Kitman's Law:
Pure nonsense tends to crowd out ordinary nonsense from the television screen.
Marvin Kitman.

Laws of mathematics that have anything to do with real world, unreliable; and reliable mathematical laws have no relation to the real world.
Albert Einstein.

Sine value in war time can reach four.
Army folklore.

From the house of reality it is easy to wander into the forest of mathematics, but only a few are able to return back.
Hugo Steinhaus.

You can't delete a word from a song, but you can delete a song.
Emil Krotky.

Bing Crosby.

The performer of a bad song is always the first to applaud.
Bing Crosby.

Luckily, popular songs don't stay popular for long.
Yanina Ipohorskaya.

When you are already thirty-five, something strange begins to happen with music.
Steve Race.

When I met Elvis, he had a million dollars' worth of talent. Now he has a million dollars.
Tom Parker on Elvis Presley.

A concert at a stadium is an art or a sport.
A. Ruban.

Any formula included in a book reduces the number of its buyers by half.
Stephen Hawking.

Mass culture is a painkiller, an analgesic, not a drug.
Stanislav Lem.

Mass culture: a contradiction in definition.

The masses should be the reader, not the art.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.

You can kill a musician with anything, but a melody can only be killed by a melody.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.

We cannot understand this formula and we do not know what it means, but we have proven it and therefore we know that it must be valid.
A certain professor of mathematics about one of L. Euler’s theorems.

Many singers on TV are worth watching. Unfortunately, they are not worth listening to.

Our music is folk music of the technological era.
Jimmy Page, rock singer.

Some say: At the level, others: At the bottom.” Well, both are right - in such shallow water.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.
Mathematics.
Mathematics mediates between spirit and matter.
Hugo Steinhaus.

He became a poet - for a mathematician he did not have enough imagination.
David Gilbert about one of his students.

She is great in her genre; Yes, her genre is painfully small.
Singer Angelica Catalani about singer Henrietta Sontag.

It's bad if your videos are better than your songs.
George Boy.

Just as all arts tend toward music, all sciences tend toward mathematics.
George Santayana.

Pop music is a precarious business. Today you are a complete mediocrity, tomorrow you are the idol of millions.

Pop music is needed to convey ideas to the people that are too stupid even for television talk shows.

Popular art is valuable not for the benefit it brings, but for the harm it saves from by providing less crude entertainment.
Vasily Klyuchevsky.

Why not make it so that popular songs can only be listened to by those among whom they are popular?

Almost all the music we listened to in our youth is no good.
Almost all the music our children listen to is no good.
Jean Liz.

Radio and television fabricate big people for little people.
Gilbert Sesbron.

Rock is not art; rock is the way common guys talk.
Billy Idol.

Rock journalism: guys who can't talk are interviewed by guys who can't write, so guys who can't read have something to read.
Frank Zappa.

Rock music is performed at such a tempo that you don’t have time to understand what melody it is and who it was stolen from.

Rulada is an artistic gargle.
Adrian Decourcel.

Old hits are better than new ones because you hear them less often.

Good love story must be poorly written.
Karel Capek.

Pure mathematics is a subject where we don't know what we're talking about and don't know whether what we're saying is true.
Bertrand Russell.

What does this old hit remind you of? - I asked X.
My first visit to a venereologist.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.

The hit doesn't live long. You would not live any longer if you were tortured with the same frenzy.
Dmitry Pashkov.

Hit: a song that makes you think you can sing too.
Arnold Glasgow.

This is the most magnificent asthma I have ever listened to.
A certain doctor about French opera singer Sophie Arnoux.