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Even the deaf would be traumatized by prolonged exposure to
the most hideous croak in Western culture. Richards's voice is simply horrible.
- Nick Coleman, on Keith Richards
He plays four-and-a-half-hour sets. That's torture. Does he hate his audience?
- John Lydon, on Bruce Springsteen
Bon Jovi sounds like bad fourth-generation metal, a smudgy Xerox of Quiet Riot.
- Jimmy Guterman, on Jon Bon Jovi
A deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated,
luminous, quivering, giggling, mincing heap of mother love.
- William Connor, on Liberace
I cried all the way to the bank.
- Liberace on a bad review
Their lyrics are unrecognizable as the Queen's English.
- Minister Edward Heath, on The Beatles
Quite frankly, I've never understood what Mick Jagger saw in that bucktoothed
Texas nag. There are a thousand home-grown Texas drag queens who could do Jerry
Hall better than she does herself.
- Camille Paglia
When you talk to him, he looks at you and grins and grins and nods and nods and
appears to be the world's best listener, until you realize he is not listening
at all.
- Larry L. King, on Willie Nelson
He sang like a hinge.
- Ethel Merman, on Cole Porter
Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.
- Greil Marcus
Bambi with testosterone.
- Owen Gleiberman, on Prince,
The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat
being neutered.
- Johnny Carson
Armed with a wiggle and a Minnie Mouse squawk, she is coarse and charmless.
- Sheila Johnson, on Madonna,
He looks like a dwarf who's been dipped in a bucket of pubic hair.
- Boy George, on Prince
A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.
- David Lee Roth
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves -
which is the same thing nowadays.
- Oscar Wilde
'Blow Up Your Video' - Some hints on how to enjoy this LP. Give your brain the
evening off.
- Smash Hits, on AC/DC
If I go around to someone's house and there's an Eric Clapton record, I just
walk out.
- Jon Moss, on Eric Clapton
'If I had a hammer' - I'd use it on Peter, Paul, and Mary.
- Howard Rosenberg
The sheets of sound they let loose have the cumulative effect of mugging.
- The London Times, on The Clash
I'm a John Denver freak, and I don't give a shit that he looks like a fucking
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