Rock Musician

🇬🇧Freddie Mercury

Music

1946–1991

"Listen, if you guys wanna move around and shift your asses a little, it's okay. It's okay by us, right? You can take all your clothes off if you like too, doesn't matter... Fuck off!"

🇺🇸Alice Cooper

Music

b. 1948

"To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that’s a compliment."

🇬🇧Bruce Dickinson

Music

b. 1958

"It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?"

🇷🇸Đorđe Balašević

Music

1953–2021

"From far away, through the sights of a sniper, they would look like Muslims, Serbs or Croats to somebody, but I approached them face to face, I saw them clearly, and trust me... They were just people..."

🇺🇸Frank Zappa

Music

1940–1993

"Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read."

🇺🇸Patti Smith

Music

b. 1946

"Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about."

🇬🇧Phil Collins

Music

b. 1951

"Stewart Copeland is an amazing drummer. I just wish he didn't think he was amazing. Sting is a lovely bloke. We've become friends. I felt honored to be on stage with him at Live Aid."

🇬🇧Angus Young

Music

b. 1955

"I don't like to play above or below people's heads. Basically, I just like to get up in front of a crowd and rip it up."

🇬🇧Richard Ashcroft

Music

b. 1971

"You know the one that takes you to the places where all the veins meet, yeah."

🇺🇸Meat Loaf

Art

1947–2022

"You're not going to ask me that and if you did I'd pretend that you didn't because everybody and their mother plus their dog and cat and their goldfish asks me that."

🇺🇸Tom Petty

Music

1950–2017

"I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know? It's a waste of your time!"