Arthur O’Shaughnessy, ‘Ode’, in Music and Moonlight: poems and songs by Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy (Chatto & Windus, 1874)
‘You just pick a chord, go twang, and you’ve got music.’ – Sid Vicious, quoted in Jon Savage, England’s Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2001)
‘As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.’ – David Bowie, quoted in Lepota L. Cosmo, Rock Love Quote – 5000 Quotations On Rock N’ Roll of Legends, Bands, Producers, Instrumentalists, Writers and Leading Vocals (Lulu Press, Inc, 2016)
‘Music doesn’t lie. I agree it can be misinterpreted, but it cannot lie.’ – Jimi Hendrix, quoted in an interview by Roy Hollingworth (Melody Maker, 5 September 1970)
‘Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.’ – Erica Jong, quoted in Rosemarie Jarski, The Funniest Thing You Never Said 2 (Ebury Press, 2010)