Bon Jovi Quotes
- "A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."
- "A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it."
- "A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."
- "A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding."
- "A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
- "A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet."
- "All I can do is be me, whoever that is."
- "All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie."
- "All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die."
- "Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to."
- "At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage."
- "Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be."
- "Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot."
- "Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere."
- "Blame it on a simple twist of fate."
- "But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked."
- "Chaos is a friend of mine."
- "Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid."
- "Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters."
- "He not busy being born is busy dying."
- "I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me."
- "I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."
- "I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."
- "I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change."
- "I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed."
- "I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged."
- "I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds."
- "I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet."
- "I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."
- "I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours."
- "I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon."
- "I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation."
- "I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, "Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.""
- "I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that."
- "If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself."
- "In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge."
- "In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall."
- "It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people."
- "Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me."
- "Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything."
- "Money doesn't talk, it swears."
- "People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent."
- "People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
- "She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you."
- "Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them."
- "The radio makes hideous sounds."
- "There is nothing so stable as change."
- "Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!"
- "Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past."
- "What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it."
- "When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?"
- "Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be."
- "You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows. Don't follow leaders watch the parkin' meters."
- "You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."