a bunch of music people taking trash about themselves? unpossible

I thought for sure something U2 would be somewhere on the list. I don't have a specific quote in mind, it just seems like the kind of list they'd be on. Not surprised at #1 though.

does it count as cocky if its arguably true?

My example would be the Bon Jovi quote. i went to one, and he did have the female members of that audience effectively seduced, so far as i could tell by their reactions. I don't think his assertion that he is good at it is cocky.

"If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection it will melt all the rest of your records."
-- David Lee Roth

come on, that one was pretty good.

"I'm gonna go down in history as being one of the best music men and businessmen in entertainment ... The people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Clive Davis." - Diddy

Diddy is such an egotistical fool. He picks stupid names for himself too.

frank sinatra and james brown were allowed to say anything, because it ain't bragging if it's true

You know what I love? A one per page list that reloads an embedded video every f*cking time I hit "next."

Numbers 13 and 5 aren't cocky, they're accurate.

"I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend."
- Freddie Mercury

Damn straight he is a legend.

I still feel sad after listening to a Queen album and realizing that I won't hear any new music from him.

Van Halen FTW

"I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature."
-- Courtney Love

Truer words have never been spoken.

/mud slide

50mm: "I'm gonna go down in history as being one of the best music men and businessmen in entertainment ... The people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Clive Davis." - Diddy

Diddy is such an egotistical fool. He picks stupid names for himself too.

THIS. Diddy is a talentless ass clown. I hate him more than Madonna, which is saying a lot.

dgc360: "If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection it will melt all the rest of your records."
-- David Lee Roth

come on, that one was pretty good.

It's DLR. If he's not saying or thinking that, you're not getting your money's worth.

"If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection it will melt all the rest of your records."

Classic Diamond Dave.

"We're not arrogant. We just believe we're the best band in the world."
I laughed.

Supposedly the explanation for #3 is that it was a claim that Christianity was dying, rather than a statement of how awesome The Beatles were.

"Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left." - Gene Simmons

Considering Gene Simmons is a talentless asshole with a deep-seated contempt for any musician who considers themselves more than a walking marketing gimmick, this is a hilarious quote.

#1
"Of course I can take it. I'm Keith farking Moon!" -- Keith Moon

#13 is cocky but true.


/NTTISAWWT

albo: it ain't bragging if it's true

Muhammed Ali said that, back when he was a young man.

/on my really good days, they swell to the size of small dogs

"I am the most well-known homosexual in the world."
-- Elton John



"Perhaps Elton, but your hair is dreadful and your music pedestrian..."

MmmBadEggs: "Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left." - Gene Simmons

Considering Gene Simmons is a talentless asshole with a deep-seated contempt for any musician who considers themselves more than a walking marketing gimmick, this is a hilarious quote.


Agreed. But that line coming from someone whose band is in even the Top 100 of all time, would be pretty damn good... IMO.

really? a list of quotes that is a click list? fark that, I'm not even going to bother

Little Richard, James Brown, Frank Sinatra, John Lennon, David Lee Roth... these guys can say whatever they want because they backup their swagger. The rest of those fools should eat a bag of dicks, especially Avril Lavigne and Madonna.

Here's the list for all you "one item per page" haters, like me:


21: "I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures."
-- Christina Aguilera

20: "I have a look that girls want to copy."
-- Avril Lavigne

19: "We're kind of an international phenomenon."
-- Michael Stipe

18: "This album is one of the best albums in the past 20 years."
-- Brandon Flowers of the Killers on 'Sam's Town'

17: "I won't be happy until I'm as famous as God."
-- Madonna

16: "I am the most well-known homosexual in the world."
-- Elton John

15: "The Grammys used me for ratings. And they were up 18 percent!"
-- Justin Timberlake

14: "I am a thing of beauty."
-- Frank Sinatra

13: "I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend."
-- Freddie Mercury

12: "I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshipper ... Because if the Devil did exist, he'd be worshipping me."
-- Marilyn Manson

11: "Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n' roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it."
-- Jon Bon Jov

10: "If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection it will melt all the rest of your records."
-- David Lee Roth

9: "I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature."
-- Courtney Love

8: "I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500."
-- James Brown

7: "In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best."
-- Mariah Carey

6: "I'm gonna go down in history as being one of the best music men and businessmen in entertainment ... The people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Clive Davis."
-- Diddy

5: "I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!"
-- Little Richard


4: "Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left."
-- Gene Simmons

3: "We're more popular than Jesus now."
-- John Lennon

2: "I'm the No. 1 artist in the world right now ... I am the No. 1 human being in music."
-- Kanye West

1: "We're not arrogant. We just believe we're the best band in the world."
-- Noel Gallagher of Oasis

Best music quote ever:

I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same. - Angus Young

12: "I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshipper ... Because if the Devil did exist, he'd be worshipping me. pissing his pants laughing at me."
-- Marilyn Manson

FTFY

/lots of snark opportunity in that list
//Freddie Mercury was right

...and Freddie Mercury. Freddie is absolutely a legend. for the rest : bag, dicks, eat.

18: "This album is one of the best albums in the past 20 years."
-- Brandon Flowers of the Killers on 'Sam's Town'


Flowers is a total moron, Killers haven't done anything innovative, original, or interesting. Ever. They even managed to drag Lou Reed even further down with their terrible collaboration.

David Lee Roth ruled the early 80s.

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Bad bit in the bit bucket: Here's the list for all you "one item per page" haters, like me:

Thank you. I don't mind slideshows where the page stays the same and just the pictures change, but when the whole page has to refresh it gets annoying.

Anyway, slightly out of order but that's a good list.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
- Frank Zappa -

I am a thing of beauty.
- Frank Sinatra -

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.
- Frank Sinatra -

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.
- David Lee Roth -

Kali-Yuga /: You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.
- Frank Sinatra -


Borrow much from Oscar Wilde Frankie?

"I'm gonna go down in history as being one of the best music men and businessmen in entertainment ... The people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Clive Davis."
~P Diddy


Greater than Clive Davis? Let's see, Mr. Davis signed Donovan, Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Aerosmith (to name a few). In 1979, Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead changed the lyrics of the Dead standard Jack Straw in concert from "we used to play for silver, now we play for life", to "we used to play for silver now we play for Clive".

I even think Clive had a hand in getting Sean Combs/Puff Daddy/P Diddy signed to Arista. Talk about biting the hand that feeds.

"I'm gonna go down in history as being one of the best dry milkers of dead friends men and businessmen in entertainment ... The people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Clive Davis."
~P Diddy


He doesn't hold a name for more than a year, nobody's gonna remember this clown. farking dolphin teeth...



/ not even American
//still feels ashamed.

Oh come on, put that John Lennon/Jesus quote in context and it's not cocky at all.

cabritosaurio: //still feels ashamed.

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R.A.Danny: cabritosaurio: //still feels ashamed.

As well you should linky mc linkerbean

D'oh!

It was this....




/ high-temperatured link.

This one has always been my favourite:

"Musically, we are more talented than Paul McCartney. Mick Jagger, his lines are not clear. He don't know how he should produce a sound. I'm the new modern rock 'n' roll. I'm the new Elvis."
-Rob Pilatus of Milli Vanilli

"German negroes? No good will come of this."
-My grandma, upon seeing Milli Vanilli on television for the first time

"Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left."
-- Gene Simmons

Why should they wipe your ass when you could just use your own tongue.

Dissociater: I thought for sure something U2 would be somewhere on the list. I don't have a specific quote in mind, it just seems like the kind of list they'd be on. Not surprised at #1 though.

"When you're 16 you think you can take on the world. And sometimes you're right!" - Bono on the Achtung Baby VHS tape

PacManDreaming: "Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left."
-- Gene Simmons

Why should they wipe your ass when you could just use your own tongue.

Because that would taste bad

/literal yiiiimmmy

"I've got chunks of guys like you in my stool."

- Frank Sinatra


/OK, he didn't really say it, but damn it, he should have.

A stranger in the Alps: "I've got chunks of guys like you in my stool."

- Frank Sinatra


/OK, he didn't really say it, but damn it, he should have.

"I hear you baby, put a bag over her face and do your business!"

Tremolo 18: "This album is one of the best albums in the past 20 years."
-- Brandon Flowers of the Killers on 'Sam's Town'


Flowers is a total moron, Killers haven't done anything innovative, original, or interesting. Ever. They even managed to drag Lou Reed even further down with their terrible collaboration.

Shortly after The Killers released 'Sam's Town,' Flowers went on to say that it was "real working class music." Local DJ (DJ Noname of 107.7fm) asked Flowers about that, when he got the chance to interview him. Much to his surprise, Flowers denied ever saying such a thing. Noname then went on to play the audio clip of said proclaimation after the interview. That spoke volumes to me as to what kind of person Flowers is.

"I'm gonna go down in history as being one of the best music men and businessmen in entertainment ... The people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Clive Davis. Please excuse me while I go film another Burger King commercial."
-- Diddy

FTFY

Marilyn Manson (me being 25 and all) basically said the equivalent of number 3 a generation later:

"I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshiper ... Because if the Devil did exist, he'd be worshiping me." (there are not two 'p's in worshiping, Spin! Go back to middle school spelling class!)

Still the best quote ever:

"Someone asked me if I believed in God - I said no. Now that I think about it, there has to be one, even if I don't believe - because nothing gets this farked up without assistance."
~Kerry King, Slayer.

Most Cocky (Bar None):
"I'm going to die in a pit, in a hole, in a cave, and you all will mourn for my passing."
~Varg Vikernes, Burzum. (God I hate that guy. But it is the most cocky thing to say after murdering someone and burning a church down.)