I was interested in what artists and
musicians think about their fans. Brainy quotes is a very interesting
webpage that literally has hundreds of them. I don’t know if the
musicians and artists actually said these things about fans,
somewhere at some time as they are not referenced. But I like the
comments made and like to think they made them.
“What good are fans? You can’t
eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it”. – Bob
Dylan
“Fans will praise you, scold you,
and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you”. –
Charlie Pride
“I’m very grateful because my
fans are very loyal”. – Cliff Richard
“I know without our fans and
devotion of our fans we wouldn’t be here. I don’t mean to put
them down, but I’m just stating a fact that it is hard to play to
people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it
in some ways”. – Rojer Daltrey
“Most of the fans of John Lennon
and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me”. – Yoko Ono
“The instrument I never learned
how to play was my fans. You know they are the part of the story that
nobody teaches you. I just to do the right thing; I want to be a
voice with them, among them”. – Lady Gaga
“If fans are going to turn on me
because of this they weren’t my fans anyway. I couldn’t betray a
whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to”. –
John Mellencamp
“Metallic fans sided with Napster
because they’re lazy bastards, and they want everything for free. I
like playing music because it’s a good living and I get
satisfaction from it but I can’t feed my family with satisfaction”
– James Hetfield of Metallica
“So these cell phones and rich
folks who can afford the big bucks for prime seating distract me from
what I am doing and make me feel like I am on display in a museum.
It’s not good for the music, which a lot of the time feeds on the
energy of the crowd” – Neil Young
“Some girl asked me for an
autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me, I
said she should see a shrink. The she started crying and I started
laughing.” - Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue
“We get paid in flesh. Our
audiences are sluts and whores, each and every one”. - Nikki
Sixx of Motley Crue
“I could go on stage, unzip my
pants, and have my dick out and people would think it was some kind
of statement or something.”- Bono
“There’s no guy that would wanna
kill us. There are girls that get so obsessed they would want to kill
us. They wanna shoot us they wanna do what whatever”. – Caleb
Folowill, Kings of Leon
“As I get older my eyesight’s
going bad. I don’t know what I am in for with groupies until they
come backstage and they’re very large with missing teeth”.-
Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue
“It actually came as quite a shock
to learn just how many people don’t like me”. – Phil
Collins
“I’m warning you with peace and
love I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you. And no
objects to be signed, nothing. Peace and love, peace and love”. –
Ringo Starr
“The fans have been great to me. I
don’t think it’s asking too much to have me sign something for
them”. – Justin Timberlake
“Every bit of me is devoted to
love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans
who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a
freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate
them. I want to free them of their fears, and make them feel like
they can make their own space in the world”. – Taylor Swift
“Fans are my favourite thing in
the world. I have never been the type of artist who has that line
drawn between their friends and fans. The line’s always been really
blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. If I see
them in the mall I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10
minutes”.- Taylor Swift
“When the line starts to blur
between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly”.
– Karem Abdul-Jabbar
“For film and television, it’s
interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting
their affections are the correct ones. It’s not just about being
a fan, it’s about how you perform your fandom. That’s been
interesting to me”. – Carrie Brownstein
“Coldplay fans are the best in the
world. If you like Coldplay then you’re obviously very intelligent
and good looking and all-round brilliant”. – Chris Martin
“Its been quite a roller coaster
ride, but I’ve grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest
thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people’s
lives…for that I give thanks”. – Christina Aquilera
“My understanding is, the fans are
so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars”. – William
Shatner
“Really, what I try and in still
in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I no desire to be
super-skinny”. – Kelly Clarkson
“Ever since I started to get
recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse stalked them”.
– Jim Carry
“I think some fans want everything
to stay the same because they want to stay the same”. -
Alanis Morissette
“I don’t want to treat my fans
like they are stupid”. –Keesha
“From the moment I leave my house
or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper
and I can’t imagine ever turning my back on my fans”. – Alice
Cooper
“The fans of ‘The Hunger Games’
of the book, are passionate. It’s funny; Even at my concerts there
are people holding up ‘Cinna’ signs”. – Lenny Kravitz
“It’s very little trouble for
me to accommodate my fans, unless I’m actually taking a pee at the
time”. – Harrison Ford
“The tastes of country music fans
are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and
programmers and record company moguls”. – Charley Pride
“And looking at today’s music
scene, I think it’s cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans
not limited by what radio and record companies tell them to buy”. –
Juice Newton
“Touring is always important to
me. It’s like a big IOU to my fans, because I know they are the
reason I exist”. – Katy Perry
“If your music is great, you will
have fans not because you have spent time chatting on social media”.
– Bryan Adams
“I like Twitter a lot. It is a
great way to get the fans knowing another side of you”.
–Caroline Wozniacki
References
“Musician quotes”
www.brainyquote.com/../musicians.html
viewed 13 January 2013
