Quotes About Phil Spector

#1. When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

Johnny Rivers

#2. I think, for a long time, people thought I was a figment of Phil Spector's imagination because they knew The Crystals, they knew The Ronettes, they knew Bob B. Sox and the Blue Jeans, but had never had met Darlene Love.

Darlene Love

#3. Led Zeppelin created their music from a diet of Bert Jansch, Memphis Minnie, John Fahey, Billy Fury, Phil Spector, Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, Moby Grape, Manitas De Plata and Om Kalsoum. Those who came afterwards were content with a diet of Led Zeppelin, which is not the same thing at all.

David Hepworth

#4. I always say that when I was recording with Phil Spector, he would not let me really sing, you know? And even to make me sound younger, he would speed the track up. He still wanted that real nice, little, quiet, sweet little sound.

Darlene Love

#5. Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.

Brian Wilson

#6. I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put myself in that place.

Joe Goddard

#7. I am so thankful for the genius of Phil Spector, for his recognition of my talent to be the main voice of his Wall of Sound.

Darlene Love

#8. Donald Trump's hairpiece has reportedly narrowed its list of running partners down to Don King, Kramer, William Shatner, Dolly Parton and Phil Spector, and has no worries about being upstaged.

Michael R. Burch

#9. That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.

Lester Bangs

#10. It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.

Grimes

#11. I never had a particular sound. There was no Lou Adler sound like there's a Phil Spector sound. I always tried to make the records about the artists and their particular sound.

Lou Adler

#12. You just have to find a lawyer that won't let you sign certain things - and I mean the fine print, because I was gone from Phil Spector and signed with Gamble and Huff in Philadelphia, and Phil bought my record contract back from them.

Darlene Love

#13. New Rule: From now on, duct tape must be called what it really is
murder tape. A search of the suspected Craigslist Killer's home yielded a firearm, restraints, and duct tape, or, as we call that here in Hollywood, Phil Spector's earthquake kit.

Bill Maher

#14. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

Brian Wilson

#15. The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.

Ben E. King

#16. I approach music- and this sounds crazy- as though I'm Phil Spector, and I'm cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff-except they're all me. But I'm not, like, transgendered.

Grimes

#17. I don't understand the United Nations. They have selected Iran to sit on the U.N.'s women's rights panel. Iran! Also on the panel - Ben Roethlisberger, Chris Brown, Phil Spector, Robert Blake and committee chairman O.J. Simpson.

Jay Leno

#18. I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.

Phil Spector

#19. The best part of breaking up ... is when you're making up.

Phil Spector

#20. When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear.

Phil Spector

#21. Lenny Bruce died from an overdose of police

Phil Spector

#22. God won't let me into heaven because I'm too evil.

Phil Spector

#23. don't touch my stuff

Phil Spector

#24. But I don't really like to discuss Phil anymore.

Ronnie Spector

#25. Paul McCartney has a voice that can do anything!

Phil Spector

#26. I'm not a bona fide human being.

Phil Spector

#27. I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.

Phil Spector

#28. I've always had a problem within myself of feeling that people didn't really see me as a musician and I'm out to get a bit of musical credibility.

Phil Spector

#29. People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.

Phil Spector

#30. I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going.

Ronnie Spector

#31. The gun went off accidentally.

Phil Spector

#32. Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Phil Spector