Great Induction Quotes
"Bruce is a very unusual rock star, really, isn't he? He got rich and famous, but never embarrassed himself with all that success, did he? No drug busts, no blood changes in Switzerland. No bad hair period, even in the '80s. No embarrassing movie roles. No exhibitions of his own paintings. No public brawling or setting himself on fire on the weekend." -- Bono on Bruce Springsteen, 1998
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"There is only one man who is so loud, he makes you soft . . . so strong he makes you weak . . .so honest, you feel kinda bashful." -- Alicia Keys on Prince, 2002
"AC/DC became the litmus test of what rock does. Does it make you clench your fist when you sing along? Does it scare your parents to hell and piss off the neighbors? Does it make you dance so close to the fire that you burn your feet -- and still don?t give a rat?s ass? If it doesn?t, then it ain?t AC/DC!" -- Steven Tyler on AC/DC, 2003
"Stewart said [for me] to make sure to tell everyone that he is the greatest drummer ever... And Andy said, ?Make sure to tell everyone that I?m the greatest guitar player ever.? So after all these years, I?m here to reveal the great secret of the Police ? that Sting is actually the humble one of the group!" -- Gwen Stefani on The Police, 2003
"I remember sitting with Tom?s two daughters thinking, 'Your dad is Tom Petty! That?s so cool! That must be so weird!'" -- Jakob Dylan on Tom Petty, 2002
"There's been over 25 members in this f***in' band, alright? They had more members than the frickin' YMCA, you know what I mean?" -- Kid Rock on Lynyrd Skynyrd, 2006
"Yes, Janis Joplin was a junkie. Yes, she was an alcoholic. Yes, she was promiscuous. In 1967 Janis Joplin was strange and freaky. But I think today she would be pretty hip." -- Melissa Etheridge on Janis Joplin, 1995
"All this time we thought we knew him so well, it was he who knew us. He knew what would move us emotionally, he knew what would move us on the dance floor." -- *NSYNC on Michael Jackson, 2001
"The Ramones didn't need Mohawks to be punk. They never had one. I don't think anyone in the band ever had one. They were four working class construction worker delinquents from Queens who were armed with two-minute songs that they rattled off like machine-gun fire. It was enough to change the earth's revolution, or at least the music of the time." -- Eddie Vedder on the Ramones, 2002
"While the E Street band and I were sweating our asses off to draw rooms filled with men, Jackson was drawing more women than an Indigo Girls show." -- Bruce Springsteen on Jackson Browne, 2004
"Never have I known a more timeless and influential band. They have spread their wonderful disease through generations of musicians." -- James Hetfield on Black Sabbath, 2006
"They broke through barriers of perception and genre and left behind them a thousand bands from garage land who caught a glimpse of what they saw and strove for, including one from Ireland called U2." -- The Edge on The Clash, 2003
"[Stevie Nicks is] the woman all young girls wanted to be and all men wanted to be with." -- Sheryl Crow on Fleetwood Mac, 1998
"Uno, dos, tres, catorce. That translates as one, two, three, fourteen. That is the correct math for a rock and roll band. For in art and love and rock and roll, the whole had better equal much more than the sum of its parts, or else you're just rubbing two sticks together searching for fire." -- Springsteen on U2, 2005
"He's taught us a lot as a band about dignity and commitment and playing in the moment... I don't know if there's been another artist that has been inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame to commemorate a career that is still as vital as he is today." -- Eddie Vedder on Neil Young, 1995
"Next to the Sex Pistols, rock and roll and that hall of fame is a piss stain. You're a museum. Urine is wine. We're not coming." -- Sex Pistols' Rejection Letter, 2006
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Classic Neil Young Live
The Hall of Famer performs 'Old Man,' 'Ohio' and 'Tell Me Why' at this 1971 Toronto concert.
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