“Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you’ll suck forever.” – Brian Wilson
“There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.” – Barry White
“You have Van Gogh’s ear for music.” – Artemus Ward
“I’d love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I’d also like just one more hit single.” – Tiny Tim
“I only know two tunes. One is ‘Yankee Doodle’, and the other isn’t.” – Ulysses S. Grant
“When an instrument fails on stage, it mocks you and must be destroyed.” – Trent Reznor
“They should be shot.” (on the Backstreet Boys) – Noel Gallagher
“In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.” – Robert Schumann
“I may not be a first-rate composer, buy I am a first-class second-rate composer.” – Richard Strauss
“I’d rather be dead than singing ‘Satisfaction’ when I’m forty-five.” – Mick Jagger