Top 100 Jovi's Quotes

#1. Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.

Michael Azerrad

Jovi's Quotes #1516785
#2. Toby Keith writes songs like 1993's "Should've Been a Cowboy," and what's compelling is that you can't deconstruct its message. "Should've Been a Cowboy" is not like Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive," where Jon Bon Jovi claimed to live like a cowboy; Toby Keith wants to be a cowboy for real.

Chuck Klosterman

Jovi's Quotes #993563
#3. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #995600
#4. I started a band because I actually thought I could be Bon Jovi, and now here I am, sitting in a puddle of sludge in an abandoned car park with a bloody nose and soggy underpants, covered in sick.

Christopher Russell

Jovi's Quotes #640686
#5. You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #993685
#6. I didn't vote for [President Bush]. But I've never said anything bad about the guy because I have respect for the office.

Jon Bon Jovi

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#7. We all need to be blind sometimes in order to see.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #936244
#8. Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #935923
#9. 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?

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #932639
#10. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #892661
#11. I'm not a clotheshorse or a big shoes guy.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #890381
#12. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #885182
#13. Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #849258
#14. Holy Bon Jovi, the queen of darkness actually had a soul.

Lynn Mitchell

Jovi's Quotes #846205
#15. I'd rather die than fade away

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #832284
#16. That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter and man, you wouldn't believe the intensity in that crowd. Can I just talk for a minute about how amazingly hot Heather is?

Richie Sambora

Jovi's Quotes #766553
#17. All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #761557
#18. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #736677
#19. Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.

Eddie Trunk

Jovi's Quotes #718580
#20. Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #696059
#21. We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.

Gary Cherone

Jovi's Quotes #691306
#22. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #680487
#23. I was a boy toy for a bunch of women.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #678462
#24. The movies are celluloid hemorrhoids. No, worse: They're celluloid Bon Jovi.

Kyle Smith

Jovi's Quotes #677092
#25. Elton John said to me, "I have all the negatives."

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #667354
#26. We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.

Richie Sambora

Jovi's Quotes #648121
#27. 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

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1871742
#28. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1300842
#29. 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

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1815673
#30. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1758866
#31. When you're about to give up and your heart's about to break,
remember that you're perfect,
God makes no mistakes.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1666139
#32. It's my life and it's now or never.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1594600
#33. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1553782
#34. 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

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1439596
#35. This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. And they say Obama's not black enough!

Conan O'Brien

Jovi's Quotes #1424448
#36. It's easy to say, 'I love you,' to someone, but it's more meaningful to thank someone for loving you.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1408321
#37. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1384713
#38. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1364767
#39. Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1340910
#40. Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, "You're so straight, we're not interested."

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1026077
#41. He's got some obsession with feathers. Sings lots of Bon Jovi too.

Anonymous

Jovi's Quotes #1221889
#42. There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1169497
#43. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1153799
#44. I think record companies are criminals.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1144555
#45. My health and my family are the core of my being.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1125684
#46. It's a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first - I don't have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music.

Kip Winger

Jovi's Quotes #1124848
#47. You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1112869
#48. I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1093669
#49. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1090319
#50. The early Bon Jovi stuff I can't stand. I just think we didn't have our stylistic voice. But some people love some of that stuff.

Richie Sambora

Jovi's Quotes #1067933
#51. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #1067472
#52. Your skin is screaming for attention like a middle-aged woman in the front row at a Bon Jovi concert.

Kim Holden

Jovi's Quotes #110692
#53. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #309444
#54. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #290487
#55. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

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#56. You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast

Jon Bon Jovi

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#57. I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #253119
#58. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #239341
#59. If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #215996
#60. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #203625
#61. My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #196863
#62. How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #162036
#63. Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #130202
#64. With an iron-clad fist, I wake up and French-kiss the morning.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #114809
#65. If Elton John and Madonna had a baby it would be Lady Gaga.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #314159
#66. When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!

Amy Ryan

Jovi's Quotes #108859
#67. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #91150
#68. I'M ONLY AS SUCCESSFUL AS THE GUY THAT LIVES DOWN THE STREET FROM ME.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #79957
#69. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #79142
#70. It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.

Sam Kinison

Jovi's Quotes #46212
#71. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #24656
#72. It's just cool to me that Bon Jovi knows my name!

Josh Hopkins

Jovi's Quotes #17693
#73. The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #14272
#74. I listen to so many different kinds of music - I mean, I listen to everything. I listen to everything from Bon Jovi to Taylor Swift. It just goes everywhere.

Mark Indelicato

Jovi's Quotes #12796
#75. Bon Jovi is most definitely the key to how I am able to write so much in a day

C.S. Woolley

Jovi's Quotes #8364
#76. 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

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #5532
#77. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

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#78. I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #563255
#79. You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #561428
#80. If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #530410
#81. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #527208
#82. 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

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #512193
#83. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #488957
#84. Keep the faith." -- Jon Bon Jovi

Michele L. Mathews

Jovi's Quotes #480252
#85. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #442766
#86. It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just wanna live while I'm alive
It's my life

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #439722
#87. I like progress but I hate change.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #437336
#88. 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.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #432935
#89. I've got my old favorites like The Eagles and Bon Jovi.

Niall Horan

Jovi's Quotes #608531
#90. The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I was promised absolution, there's only one solution for my sins. And I blame this world, for making a good man evil. Now I ain't getting into heaven, if the devil has his way.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #425915
#91. Jersey girls have this inner glow that makes them more beautiful than any other girls.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #419069
#92. I would kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet

Jon Bon Jovi

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#93. A friend of mine, a friend of yours. My better half, Richard Stephen Sambora

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #383702
#94. Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #381948
#95. Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.

Psy

Jovi's Quotes #376119
#96. Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #356379
#97. I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #343092
#98. Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.

Jon Bon Jovi

Jovi's Quotes #339384
#99. New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.

Queen Latifah

Jovi's Quotes #335043
#100. When Bon Jovi goes out on tour again, that's who I'm going to go see because some of it survives... while the rest becomes compost in the garden of rock 'n' roll.

Lonn Friend

Jovi's Quotes #332815

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