Jon Bon Jovi Quotes
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When Johnny Cash died, ... I picked up my guitar and got the idea that Bob Dylan was the last man standing, the last of the real gods. It was for Dylan, Cash, Lennon, Elvis that's what I was thinking.
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I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.
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Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock & roll.
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My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were both Marines.
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It's morning when I go to sleep In the distant dawn a church bell rings Another day is coming on A baby's born, an old man dies Somewhere young lovers kiss good-bye I leave my soul and just move on And wish that I was there to sing this song
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Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
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If you're from New Jersey, let people make all those bad jokes about our state. Don't let anyone know how great it is here. It's the best kept secret.
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I like progress but I hate change.
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I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.
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If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.
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How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?
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Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear
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The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
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When you're about to give up and your heart's about to break, remember that you're perfect, God makes no mistakes.
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I try to explain that to my kids - the experience of going to a record store, flipping through racks and finding that album cover that intrigues you - but my kids don't want to know about it. They download the one song on the album they like, and pay their 99 cents.
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I was a boy toy for a bunch of women.
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Nobody's dumb in this relationship [with his wife] or in the relationships of any of the other guys in the band. But it's also not the cliché that those on the outside envision.
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You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that.
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Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey.
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With an iron-clad fist, I wake up and French-kiss the morning.
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I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.
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Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in.
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Would I love to run around and check out if Jennifer Aniston was looking for a boyfriend? Yeah, it would be interesting for a minute. But would I trade in my life to get her and Angelina [Jolie]? No way. I've got something better. And I don't need the neuroses of two type-A personalities in my life. One is enough.
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You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast
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My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and has no relation to anyone's.
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Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
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Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.
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This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.
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You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose
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I didn't vote for [President Bush]. But I've never said anything bad about the guy because I have respect for the office.
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