Top 100 Quotes About Jon Bon Jovi
#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
#3. I go to the theater, all the time. I'm not one of these secret movie, watch a 35mm print in my living the weekend it comes out guys. I'm not Jon Bon Jovi. I go to the Arclight, like a regular asshole.
Seth Rogen
#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. If you could see yourself the way that others do, you'd wish you were as beautiful as you.
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#8. 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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#10. 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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#11. I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.
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#12. There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.
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#13. 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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#14. 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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#16. My health and my family are the core of my being.
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#17. You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose
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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, "You're so straight, we're not interested."
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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. We all need to be blind sometimes in order to see.
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#26. Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.
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#27. 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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#28. I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.
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#30. 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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#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.
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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock & roll.
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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back
I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back;
I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall
I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all.
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#41. 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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#42. You can't win until you're not afraid to lose.
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#43. When the World Gets in my Face I say, Have a Nice Day.
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#44. 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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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?
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#49. Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.
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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.
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#53. If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.
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#54. Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.
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#56. I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'
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#57. Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
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#58. If Elton John and Madonna had a baby it would be Lady Gaga.
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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. 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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#63. I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.
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#64. 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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#65. A friend of mine, a friend of yours. My better half, Richard Stephen Sambora
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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?
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#69. Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.
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#70. With an iron-clad fist, I wake up and French-kiss the morning.
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#71. 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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#72. I'M ONLY AS SUCCESSFUL AS THE GUY THAT LIVES DOWN THE STREET FROM ME.
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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing.
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#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
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#77. If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.
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#78. 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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#79. 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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#81. All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.
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#82. 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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#83. Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
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#84. 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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#86. Elton John said to me, "I have all the negatives."
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#87. I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.
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#88. You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.
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#89. I'm not a clotheshorse or a big shoes guy.
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#90. 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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#91. 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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#92. 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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#93. 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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#94. 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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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. 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.
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#99. Jersey girls have this inner glow that makes them more beautiful than any other girls.
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#100. I would kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet
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