Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.

But for Mozart love is only the litmus test. To determine whether one is truly free or not.

Self-destructive behaviors do not exist because there is a force within us that tries to hasten our return to an inorganic state

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin.

Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time.

Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

I wouldn't change anything for the world, although the fame part of this [entertainment] industry is tough to handle at times.

The government is not doing anything to help the country to heal. The government is just making cosmetic changes.