Top 100 Jon Bon Jovi Quotes
#1. 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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#2. The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing.
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#3. It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly not going to rub it in anybody's face.
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#4. You think you know me just because you know my name, think you've seen me 'cause you've seen every line on my face.
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#5. I'M ONLY AS SUCCESSFUL AS THE GUY THAT LIVES DOWN THE STREET FROM ME.
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#6. We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
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#7. With an iron-clad fist, I wake up and French-kiss the morning.
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#8. How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?
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#9. My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.
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#10. I would love to be able to do both (acting and making music). If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies, that would be a great life to have.
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#11. I BELIEVE THAT WE'RE ONLY AS STRONG AS OUR NEIGHBOR IS, AND THE IDEA THAT, I'M MY BROTHER'S KEEPER WORKS FOR ME.
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#13. THE CREATIVITY IS JUST SOMETHING THAT, I DON'T KNOW, YOU WORK VERY HARD AT, BUT PART OF YOU SAYS THAT YOU WERE BORN WITH IT. IT'S A CRAFT LIKE EVERY OTHER, YOU HAVE TO KEEP SHARP AND YOU HAVE TO BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS.
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#14. For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
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#15. 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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#16. If Elton John and Madonna had a baby it would be Lady Gaga.
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#17. Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
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#18. I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'
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#20. Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.
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#21. I would kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet
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#22. Jersey girls have this inner glow that makes them more beautiful than any other girls.
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#23. 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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#24. We've had all the ebbs and flows of any real career. Trust me. We've been at the highest highs and pretty low lows. But that said, we always stay true to who we were. We didn't jump on fads and fashions.
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#26. It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just wanna live while I'm alive
It's my life
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#27. I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You're only as good as your weakest link.
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#28. 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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#29. Thank you for loving me
For being my eyes
When I couldn't see
For parting my lips
When I couldn?t breathe
Thank you for loving me
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#30. 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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#31. If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.
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#32. You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.
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#33. I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.
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#34. Elton John said to me, "I have all the negatives."
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#36. If you were to ask me about a mistake I have made, it's calling my fourth album, 'New Jersey', because for the first time in my life, we were compared to the E Street Band.
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#37. Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
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#38. Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
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#39. All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.
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#41. Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks.
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#42. Any time that you think you've hit the top of the mountain, the truth of the matter is you've just reached another mountain. And it's there to climb all over again.
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#43. I'm not a clotheshorse or a big shoes guy.
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#44. 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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#45. I might have been through some changes, but changing the way I look wasn't one of the major ones. To be honest. I'm sick of the whole subject of my hair. I mean, are you just sitting there looking at my hair, or are you looking at me?
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#46. Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.
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#47. We all need to be blind sometimes in order to see.
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#48. 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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#49. You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.
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#50. There's not a platinum record hanging in my house anywhere. It doesn't exist here. I'm over it. They're all in the garage, wrapped up in bubblewrap.
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#51. Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, "You're so straight, we're not interested."
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#52. New songs are why artists go on the road. That's why I go on the road. It's a three-prong play. Writing: You're intrigued. Recording: It brings it to life. And then you want to share it.
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#53. 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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#54. You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose
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#55. My health and my family are the core of my being.
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#57. I could always write songs, act, get into politics, or stay home with the kids. But I've got to have some fun.
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#58. New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.
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#59. There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.
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#60. I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.
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#61. Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time
you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.
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#63. I have had some sorry-ass looks, but I'm the first one to laugh. I'm either to credit or to blame for the '80s.
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#64. If you could see yourself the way that others do, you'd wish you were as beautiful as you.
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#65. It's all the same, only the names will change, everyday it seems we're wasting away. Another place, where the faces are so cold, I'd drive all night just to get back home.
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#66. Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.
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#67. Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.
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#68. My heart is like an open highway ... people come and go and sometimes they are just beside you and you dont know
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#69. Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.
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#70. We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?
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#71. Each one of you has something no one else has, or has ever had: your fingerprints, your brain, your heart. Be an individual. Be unique. Stand out. Make noise. Make someone notice. That's the power of individuals.
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#72. 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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#74. It's easy to say, 'I love you,' to someone, but it's more meaningful to thank someone for loving you.
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#75. When the World Gets in my Face I say, Have a Nice Day.
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#76. You can't win until you're not afraid to lose.
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#78. I can't sing a love song
Like the way it's meant to be
Well, I guess I'm not that good anymore
But baby, that's just me
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#79. As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever
decide to leave, she is coming with me."
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#80. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock & roll.
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#81. Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?
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#82. Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago.
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#83. 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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#84. Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.
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#87. 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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#88. I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.
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#89. I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.
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#90. I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.
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#91. In our town, the most popular way out was joining the service. So my three best friends joined the Navy to get out. I didn't.
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#93. I'll be there forever and a day - Always
I'll be there till the stars don't shine
Till the heavens burst and
The words don't rhyme
And I know when I die, you'll be on my mind
And I'll love you - Always
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#95. IT'S A LITTLE HARD FOR ME TO STAND BEHIND THE WALLS OF THE GREAT MANSION AND PLAY ROCK AND ROLL STAR. I FEEL THE NEED TO GIVE BACK.
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#96. You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy.
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#97. 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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#98. It's a bitch and life's a rollercoaster ride.
The ups and downs will make you scream sometimes.
It's hard believing that the thrill is gone,
But we gotta go around again, so let's hold on.
- Lie to Me
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#100. If you told me to cry for you
I could
If you told me to die for you
I would
Take a look at my face
There's no price I won't pay
To say these words to you
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