Musical Quotes

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Music is incredibly important to my existence and I draw bits of inspiration from all types of music. I decided to offer some quotes by musicians that impress me. Take one of these quotes & write me something amazing. If you have a specific quote in mind, message me & have at it.

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List of Quotes:

I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs.... because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts.
Tori Amos

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
Billie Joe Armstrong

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Bono

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
Kurt Cobain

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
Ani DiFranco

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
Debbie Harry

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
Janis Joplin

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
Anthony Kiedis

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.
Courtney Love

Music is the strongest form of magic.
Marilyn Manson

Man is a universe within himself.
Bob Marley

Rock'n'roll saved my soul.
Thurston Moore

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Jim Morrison

To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.
Sinead O'Connor

I just don't fit into the box.
Liz Phair

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.
Johnny Rotten

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.
Grace Slick

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
Eddie Vedder