"See, I don't know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea." - Dr. John
"Life's too short and too complicated for people behind desks, people behind masks to be ruining other people's lives, initiating force against other people's lives on the basis of their income, their color, their class, their religious beliefs, whatever." - Jeff Buckley
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." - Frank Zappa
"How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do. " - Curtis Mayfield, born this day in 1942.
"Whenever a political regime or religious establishment refuses to tolerate criticism, it advertises itself as repressive, backward, and insecure." - Mark Knopfler
"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso." - Robert Quine, 15 years gone today. You probably don't know Bob by name, but you've probably heard Bob's guitar. And if you haven't, you need to.
"The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea." - Nick Cave
"I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things. Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behavior patterns make me so bored," - Wendy O. Williams
"I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz." - Sonny Rollins