English Musician Quotes

Sting

Syd Barrett

Brian Eno

Damon Albarn

Boy George

Nick Mason

Peter Hook

I wrote that; I ran right outside I hopped inside a cab. I went out the other door. You know like the Beatles, when they go in one side and then get out the other side and everyone thinks they're in the cab and they're not. And this Englishman said fab. That was Bob Dylan's 115th Dream, you know the one.
If you're a musician, people expect your music to be free. It's like is all plumbing free? Is all electricity free? Is all dentistry free? No.

If you've lost your faith in love and music, oh, the end won't be long.

We skipped the light fandango
And turned cartwheels cross the floor …
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale …
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast …

I suppose in the end it's almost too easy to look back and say what you should have done, how you might have changed things. What's harder - what's much, much harder - is to accept what you actually did do.

In the 1960s, the record companies seemed to sign anything with long hair; if it was a sheepdog, so what.

We're all going on a summer holiday,
No more worries for a week or two.

And what exactly is a dream, and what exactly is a joke?

Riding on anything
Anything's good enough
Who would've thought it of someone like you

Justine Frischmann

Whenever I don't know what to write about, I just close my eyes and think of Essex.

We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about. And they're still the biggest band in the world, so we failed. We didn't really do anything, people wore flares for a year or two, d'you know what I mean? That's all we did.

Whatever you like at age 16, you will find boring at age 32.

Mixmaster Morris

If you can't do anything as good as or even better than what you have already done, then don't do it.

In the past, the English tried to impose a system wherever they went. They destroyed the nation's culture and one of the by-products of their systemization was that they destroyed their own folk culture.

Hello, I'm Boy George, and you are watching RBTV. Come out of the closet, all you students - we want you!

You got a light, mac? No... but I've got a dark brown overcoat.

Vivian Stanshall

Sex and drugs and rock and roll Is all my brain and body need Sex and drugs and rock and roll Is very good indeed.

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.

When all's said and done, I wish them well. I wasn't just the one that ranted a bit in interviews and thought he was great. I thought the group were great.

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.