“Man, all you knew about electric guitars is that they were loud...And they had a high tone, like I could sound like Chuck Berry and that’s all I cared.” — Mike Bloomfield
“I've played in places where old colored women in their sixties have lifted their dresses in front of me with nothing on underneath. Man, I've seen it; I've seen gusty shit.” — Mike Bloomfield
“Whenever my dad got drunk he’d come up to me and say. ‘Look son, you know, looks aren’t everything.’ ” — Pete Townshend
“One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were...” — John Lennon
“If I could be a fuckin’ fisherman I would.” — John Lennon
“When the acid tests were going on, everyone was getting real high, everyone knew... that it was cosmic.” — Jerry Garcia
“I don’t think George Bush sits around and thinks about stuff I sit around and think about - all this stuff y’all call policy-wonk stuff.” — Bill Clinton
“I have fought more damn battles here for more things than any president has in 20 years...” — Bill Clinton
“It was a terrible period. Everyone was hating each other; there were so many disagreements... everyone was so out of their brains. Touring would have been a nightmare.” — Mick Jagger
“Being vice president meant strengthening Bill Clinton’s hand in meetings, where we’d do a good cop-bad cop routine.” — Al Gore
“Osama bin Laden’s best weapon against us has been our own policies.” — Jann S. Wenner
“You know... that’s really the way to do a recording — in a peaceful, relaxed setting — in somebody’s basement. With the windows open... and a dog lying on the floor.” — Bob Dylan
“We are quickly closing in on what looks an awful lot like the Vietnamization of the Iraq War.” — Bruce Springsteen
“You know ‘A Boy Named Sue’? That was me, the kid who’s beaten up by macho guys, but in the end becomes the toughest man.” — Bono
“In the beginning, we had no idea what we were doing.” — Jann S. Wenner
“Ahmet looked like a suave, wealthy and titled combination of Oriental pasha and the Wizard of Oz.” — Jann S. Wenner
“It is a mistake to think of the climate crisis as one in a list of issues that will define our future. It is the issue.” — Al Gore
“The older I get, the less important feeding my vanity becomes.” — Barack Obama