British Musician Quotes

Paul McCartney

David Bowie

George Harrison

Ringo Starr

Mick Jagger

Albert, Prince Consort

Keith Richards

Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

Old mismanagement is no excuse for the continuance of it.

Albert, Prince Consort

I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo

Come holy harlequin!
Shake the world and shock the hypocrite
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.
Let the feast of love begin,
Let the hungry all come in,
Rock, love, carry it away, turn it upside down.

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

It is not governed by the senseless world of current style that pervades and pollutes popular music, nor is it part of an established hierarchy, so that it is cloistered and protected.

These could be the best days of our lives / but I don't think we've been living very wise.

Who's to say that every performer should be a good actor? Why can't you just be yourself?

The Lord loves the one that loves the Lord
And the law says if you don't give,
then you don't get loving
Now the Lord helps those that help themselves
And the law says whatever you do
It comes right back on you

George Harrison

When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.

I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie
I have my freedom but I don't have much time
Faith has been broken, tears must be cried
Let's do some living, after we die
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…

I've played Bach since I was a little girl. I can't let a day go by without playing him. He's so witty and secretive and funny and mathematical and brilliant.

Joanna MacGregor

Pop music is probably the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the general public. The more people buy a record, the more successful it is - not only commercially but artistically.

When I crashed my BMW and managed to walk away pretty much unscathed, it was a turning point. I'd been living the life, and when people see photos of the car wreck, they can't believe I got away with it. It was like a fog had lifted. I stopped drinking a bottle of Tequila before grabbing my car keys. It was time to wise-up and get a haircut.

There's no reason not to stand for this song, come on, if you stand we'll buy you all ice cream

Better lo'ed ye canna be,
Will ye no come back again?

Carolina, Baroness Nairne

I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book
A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt
A billion lovers with their cameras
Snap to look and in my fantasy
I sail beneath your skirt

The bottom line is that the human species has to realize the human body really is just a cheap suitcase.

Genesis P-Orridge

Everything they'd been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

Philosophy is best practiced, I believe, by the easy and affluent.

Ignatius Sancho

I'm 33... before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.

We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience.

Shingai Shoniwa

I am a big Beatles fan. And, you know, unbeknownst to anyone, I used to be one. But I have no problems of putting titles and lines from other songs in my songs, because they're great lines and great titles. And some of them I even thought of. You know, I think this is the third time I've used "It Don't Come Easy." I used that on "Time Takes Time," I think, as well. So it's just a great line that, you know, expresses so much. So I just put it in again.

We had no sooner taken our seats in the railway carriage and the train was beginning to move slowly out of the station when the guard came along the corridor and presented me with my viola! The porter had spotted it, reclining in its case all alone on the platform seat where Lillian and I had been busily engaged in conversation, run along the platform, and thrust it into the hands of the guard through the luggage van window as the train was moving off. Such was my absorption in Lillian that I could even forget the existence of my beloved and precious viola which had meant so much to me for so many years.