"I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly."
-Jeff Beck
"Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything."
-Billie Joe Armstrong
“Last year I was 21”
-Musician, Iggy Pop
"You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it."
Singer, Macy Gray
"The relevant question is, Do you like it? At this point in my life I'm only focused on pursuing the things I love."
-Musician, Josh Homme
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"You can't wait around for destiny to give you what you think you deserve, you have to earn it, even if you think you've paid your dues. You might have achieved what you wanted, but are you sure you learned the lesson?"
- Musician, Slash
“You have to make a decision, what you want to do in life, ... Your deal can be, you can leave tomorrow. Soon as you leave, you will be forgotten.”
-Radio legend, Howard Stern
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There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.
-Actor/Comedian, Richard Pryor
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“Each one of you has something no one else has, or has ever had: your fingerprints, your brain, your heart. Be an individual. Be unique. Stand out. Make noise. Make someone notice. That's the power of individuals.”
-Musician, Jon Bon Jovi
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“Life is full of choices, if you have the guts to go for it. That's why I get immediately bored with anyone's complaining about how boring their life is, or how bad their town is. Fucking leave and go somewhere else. Or don't.”
-Musician, Henry Rollins
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"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."
Musician, John Lennon
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"More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself."
Director, Kevin Smith
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"People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it."
-Singer, Frank Sinatra
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"It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do."
-Producer, Quincy Jones
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“The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.”
-Musician, Pete Townshend
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"I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself."
-Musician, Branford Marsalis
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“I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about. I'm always working on trying to better myself, you know? I think that that is an ongoing thing with me.”
-Singer, Ozzy Osbourne
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“I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me, intellectually, I don't think like that because I get uncomfortable. I'm more wary of my intellectual mind, of becoming delusional if I think of it too much.”
-Director, Tim Burton
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“I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. "See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job."
-Actor, Bill Murray
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
-Musician, Ted Nugent
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"Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it."
-Actor and Comedian, Bill Cosby
"I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams."
-Actor,William H. Macy
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"Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.”
-Singer, Al Green
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“I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.”
-Actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman
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"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."
-Singer, David Bowie
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“Life, like poker, has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.”
-Actor, Edward Norton
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“I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.”
-Actor, Colin Farrell
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"“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”"
Singer, Madonna
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"I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business."
-Actor, Christopher Walken
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"I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is. "
-Actor, Kurt Russell
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“I thought, 'Everything is open for me. I can basically do what I want. Let's see how well I interpret this Lets see how well I pull this off.'”
-Actor, Jason Lee
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“I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.”
-Musician, Dave Grohl
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“I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear.”
-LL Cool J
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"If you read a lot of books, you're considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed."
Actress, Lily Tomlin
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"I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener."
-Ben Stiller
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"Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk."
-Singer, Bruce Dickinson
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"I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity."
-Comedian, Chris Rock
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"Everybody in the world knew who I was, before I knew who I was."
-Actor, Michael J. Fox
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"Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident."
-Actor, Eric Roberts
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"It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness."
-Singer, Robert Plant
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"As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both."
-Singer, Bono
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"Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all."
-Singer, Joan Jett
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“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.”
-Actor, Will Smith
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“There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.”
-Singer, Thom Yorke
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"My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it. "
-Singer, Justin Timberlake
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“"I think art is the only thing that's spirtual in the world. And I refuse to be forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.”
-Singer, Marilyn Manson
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"I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise."
-Actor, Mickey Rourke
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"You''ll have time to rest when you're dead.
-Actor, Robert de Niro
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"I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character."
-Singer/Songwriter, James Taylor
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"I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job."
-Singer, Robert Smith
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"In my wildest dreams I never thought.......well, I never thought I'd work."
-Actor, Steve Carell
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"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made eleven albums that sounds exactly the same. Infact, we've made twelve albums that sound exactly the same."
-Guitarist, Angus Young
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"I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now."
-Musician, Ronnie Wood
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"Most things I worry about never happen anyway."
-Singer, Songwriter, Tom Petty
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"When it comes to luck, you make your own."
-Singer/Songwriter, Bruce Springsteen
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"Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere."
-Actor, Morgan Freeman
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"Getting lost like that is my drive."
-Actor, Joaquin Phoenix
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"All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself."
-Actor, Mark Walhberg
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"I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream...."
-Actress, Hilary Swank
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"I'm actually very ordinary, except people get to pay their money to come watch me work. The same way that we go to McDonald's.. we don't care about the guy behind the counter, but if he was doing something special, we'd pay our money to go watch him cook that hamburger."
-Actor, Samuel L. Jackson
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"The 'not-giving-a-fuck' meter is as far into the red-zone as ever before."
-Drummer, Lars Ulrich
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"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway."
-Actor, John Wayne
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"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and you decide not to surrender, that is strength."
- Actor and Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger
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"It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway."
-Actor, and Director, Danny Devito
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"I'd rather be the king of kids, then the prince of fools."
-Actor and musician, Jack Black
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"I'd rather die enormous than live dormant."
-Hip Hop Artist and Business Mogul, Jay Z
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"All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead."
-Actor, Will Ferrell
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"James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention."
-Musician and Businessman, Gene Simmons
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"The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that, or you're dead."
-Director, David Lynch
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"And the things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first."
-Singer, Steven Tyler
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"Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor."
-Actor, Jack Nicholson
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"He who hesitates is poor."
-Director and Writer, Mel Brooks
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"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."
-Musician, Miles Davis
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"Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing."
-Actor, Christian Bale
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"Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots."
-Musician, David Byrne
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"It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people."
-Singer, Anthony Kiedis
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"I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done."
-Actor, Robert Downey Jr.
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"As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks."
-Musician, Neil Young
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"Someone asked me why I was writing this book (The Heroin Diaries) and I said , "Maybe one person will read it and it will help them." They said, "That's not very rock n' roll, is it?" I said, "Fuck off" and smirked, because I know it's the most rock n' roll thing about-me doing what I wanna do in life."
-Motley Crue creator/Basisst, Nikki Sixx
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"There are four questions of value in life....What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same...Love.
-Actor, Johnny Depp
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"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
-Actor, Robin Williams
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“You can't punish me for that. Don't ask me my opinion and then punish me for the answer I give you! Better still, just don't ask. Or don't expect truth. Fruit from the tree of knowledge. I love it! If you think I'm going to give you an opinion that's popular then you are talking to the wrong person. I don't know how to do that. I don't know how to turn my brain off and do what you would like me to do.”
- Musician, Jack White
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"I simply have to be creative all the time. I have to sit down with a group of people and create new things. I can be the quarterback. I can be the cheerleader. I have to travel, to meet people. All different kinds of people. People are my enthusiasm and the source of my inspirations."
-David Lee Roth
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