Frank Sinatra - "You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville."
Frank Sinatra - "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."
Garth Brooks - "I think most people realise I'm just a bum who got lucky."
INXS (Michael Hutchence) - "Kylie Minogue - she's so great. You'd love her if you met her. Everyone would. In a way I wish everyone could, to see what a person she is. She's so sweet and no bull and really funny, man, really funny. The Rolling Stones are like a weight around your neck. All that..'you're not meant to rock after you're 30...you've got to die in a car crash or of a drug overdose."
James Brown - "I've outdone anyone you can name...Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated."
Janet Jackson - "Marvin Gaye is our John Lennon. The longer he's gone, the more young people appreciate his art. 'What's Going On' was a work of genius far ahead of it's time."
John Denver - "There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, 'You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else."
John Lee Hooker - "Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have."
Johnny Cash - "Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to."
Kate Bush - "When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits of inspiration floating about and grab them."
Lionel Richie - "The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway."
Louis Armstrong - "There is two kinds of music, the good and bad. I play the good kind. All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song."