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Clash’s collection of 100 Most Outrageous Music Quotes

keithFrom Clash Music, here’s their list of most outrageous 100 quotes for all time (up to this point) but I it should have been titled the most Pompous quotes of all time, as they give space for 11 of their 100 quotes to the Gallagher brothers of Oasis. Liam and weren’t outrageous but just pompous ass clowns; the only thing I will agree with them is Liam Gallagher stating: “You’ve seen one of our gigs, you’ve seen ’em all.” Amen to that brother… Here are a few of my favorites from the list:

“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.”
Decca Records’ rejection letter to The Beatles, 1962.

“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.”
Elvis Presley

“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
Jimi Hendrix

“When I die, bury me on my stomach and let the world kiss my ass.”
L.L. Cool J

“When I first went to the Betty Ford Center I was very surprised they didn’t have a bar there… I thought they taught you how to drink like a gentleman.”
Ozzy Osbourne

“I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.”
Keith Richards

“I’m an instant star; just add water and stir.”
David Bowie

“As I get older my eyesight’s going bad, I don’t know what I’m in for [with groupies] until they come backstage and they’re very large with missing teeth.”
Nikki Sixx, Motley Crue

“Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, ‘That’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.’”
Elton John

“When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.”
David Bowie

And the most ridiculous quote (and I agree):
“Dance music was on its arse before we came along.”
Serge Pizzorno, Kasabian

BTW who the F is Serge and Kasabian, never heard of them…. honest and I’m a DJ of “dance music”.

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Reason #2 to love DC: The Pecs on the President?

The Washtonian magazine seems to think that a shirtless President is reason enough to love thy neighbor:

“The Obamas are the center of attention here and the whole world is looking to Washington now in a way we haven’t seen in years,” Garrett Graff, editor at The Washingtonian said, calling it “a real golden age of Washington.”

ABC Comments on the gossip with “Political Punch“. In the interest of being fair and balanced, I’m calling for a shirtless pic of vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin as a response.

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New Yorkers Don’t Fawn Over Celebrity

NYC is the most populous city in the united states, with more people in closer proximity than in any other city. This living situation begets the reduction of personal space in public places – subways, sidewalks, department stores, and nightlife spots.

I spend the majority of my public hours shoulder to shoulder with new yorkers, citizens and any number of foreigners walking to the store for toothpaste, deodorant and my evenings dinner – all in plane site for those that I bump or pass by. I run in the park or along the waterfront sweating with the rest of the nyers trying to stay fit and shed some of the city’s stress. I spend Sunday afternoons with my friends at my local pub with the NFL package watching all the games at once well because they have more room than my living room and better access to food and beer.

This life is common for New York and something I seriously debated getting used to when looking at moving. I truly loved the flexibility of surrounding myself with people when I wanted and having the space to avoid them when I didn’t. However, in my 4+ years I, like the New Yorkers before me, have gotten used to living my private life publicly in the same manner.

We take ownership of life on the street as our own. This is our block, this butcher is my guy, that’s my Italian spot, I get my mozzarella from Joe’s, and this is my pub like as if this is my couch in my living room. When locals and even celebrities enter our home they become part of the scenery, part of the atmosphere and just party of the whole experience of being in NY. This is my time and Jay-z is here enjoying dinner at my spot, not the other way around.

In my time in NY I run into celebrities more here than anywhere I’ve lived and part of that is the closeness of everyone but also we all share the same environments you’re bound to have dinner next to Demi Moore and Ashton, crossing the same street under the same umbrella as Rosario Dawson, accidentally running over Giada De Laurentiis coming out of her hotel or having coffee with Famke Janssen at your local shop.

With celebrity sightings NYers may look twice because there is a moment of recognition; they process why the face is recognized, realize it is not someone you actually know, and move on. We’re inundated with their faces and people all the time.

Really though the last thing I need is one more person fawning over ME and taking my picture. Get a life, celebrities. Seriously.