Top 123 Quotes & Sayings by Jon Bon Jovi - Page 2

I'd rather die than fade away

I would kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."

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.

You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast

Jersey girls have this inner glow that makes them more beautiful than any other girls.

How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?

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

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.

Nobody's dumb in this relationship [with his wife] or in the relationships of any of the other guys in the band. But it's also not the cliché that those on the outside envision.

My heart is like an open highway...people come and go and sometimes they are just beside you and you dont know

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.

Nothing is as important as passion.

And I laughed so hard I think I died

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.

With an iron-clad fist, I wake up and French-kiss the morning.

I'm only as successful as the guy that lives down the street from me.

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.

Falling in love is painful on the knees.

You better stand tall when they're calling you out, don't bend, don't break, and don't back down!

When the World Gets in my Face I say, Have a Nice Day.

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.

I don´t know where I´m going, only God knows where I´ve been.

It's now or never I ain't gonna live forever I just wanna live while I'm alive It's my life

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.

If Elton John and Madonna had a baby it would be Lady Gaga.

I was a boy toy for a bunch of women.

Would I love to run around and check out if Jennifer Aniston was looking for a boyfriend? Yeah, it would be interesting for a minute. But would I trade in my life to get her and Angelina [Jolie]? No way. I've got something better. And I don't need the neuroses of two type-A personalities in my life. One is enough.

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.

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.

Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, "You're so straight, we're not interested."

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.

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

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?

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

The internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey.

All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.

Do you really want to know why I'm doing all this goodwill, and why I'm an ambassador for Habitat for Humanity and why I gave a million to [relief efforts for Hurricane] Katrina? It's because I feel guilty about the huge hole in the ozone layer my haircuts created. It's my responsibility to right the wrongs of the Eighties.

I think record companies are criminals.

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.

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.

Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

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

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.

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.

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

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

My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were both Marines.

We're always looking for something.

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

I'm not a clotheshorse or a big shoes guy.

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.

Elton John said to me, "I have all the negatives."

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

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

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...Plus, being married and monogamous, it's the closest thing I can do to having sex without getting in trouble for it...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.

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.

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

The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing.