87 Fans Quotes

From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.

Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.

The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out too much.

San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.

It's really important for me to get across to our fans that whenever I put myself in different circumstances. It is to learn from it so I can relay it to others.

People ask me if I am going on making cheesecake pictures now that I'm a star. My answer is that as long as there is a boy in Korea who wants a pinup of me, I'll go on posing for them.

I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.

I go to restaurants and the groups always play 'Yesterday.' I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us 'Yesterday.' He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing 'I Am The Walrus.'

One time I was singing along with a boy that looked like me in the crowd, and he pushed away the mic and started making out with me and accidentally bit my lip, and I had to get stitches.

'I cannot repay my fans for what they have done for me, they have given me so much love and that love has taken me to the number 1 position where I am today, the only thing I can do for my fans is to never stop working, and to do films till the very end, it is the only way I can express my love for them.'

We're going to try to make it better for everybody, period, end of subject. And if you don't realize that, then don't come. We don't want you at the rink, we don't want you in the stadium, we don't want you to watch hockey... I say personally, to everybody who called us 'spoiled,' you guys are just jealous ... we have tried so, so hard to get this game back on the ice.

Look at you just looking at the Rock, gawking at the Rock; you ought to be ashamed of yourself, a woman your age looking at the Rock like this!'

Sport is born clean and it would stay that way if it was the athletes who ran it for the pleasure of taking part, but then the fans and the media intervene and finish up by corrupting it with the pressure that they exercise.

Fan is short for fanatic - he's crazy about something he really doesn't know about. And it's proven that 99 percent of baseball fans have no idea what they're watching.

There's wacky girls all over the place that try to do weird things, but we don't pay attention to them. We just kind of do our own thing and hang out with the fans that are really important to us.

I don't think that fans of RAGE or Soundgarden will be disappointed.

Of course, there are hard rock fans who only like hard rock and that's OK, but I think the majority of the people out there are rather open minded. I always liked a lot of different styles and hard rock was just one of them.

'Even though it`s hard working and what not, it`s fun. Ever since I was a little girl that`s what I wanted to do, so how can I complain in the end about the long hours and being tired?! It`s my dream and I`m living it thanks to, you know, all the fans and everything, I`m truly blessed and I`m really greatful'

Interviewer: This band has always been able to communicate with its fanbase, I mean, you've always been huge within what it is the spectators do as well.

I experienced one of my most starstruck moments at the Oasis show. Now, there are a handful of people who will get me starstruck, but generally, I'm able to handle myself because if I meet them it's at a place where I wouldn't be surprised to do so. I did not expect to see Trent Reznor in Las Vegas at this Oasis show, so when I did, I had a little episode. Needless to say I totally dorked out and fan-boyed all over the accommodating gentleman for about 4.5 seconds before letting him be free of me. He was cool. It was nifty. Bowie, you're next.

Jade: We don't encourage our fans to send us dead things. Davey: Or alive things.

Random: Davey, I wanna have your kids!! Davey: Well...I'll be sure to call ya.

Random: Davey is the new Jesus!! Davey: Umm, I think it's the hair. Is it the hair?

Random: Davey will you marry me?! Davey: Uh, maybe...

Random Crowd Member: I LOVE YOU DAVEY! Davey: [stops singing in the middle of the song and smiles] Someone wants to fuck me. [continues song]

Fan:Also are you a Sex And The City fan? Think you might see the movie this weekend? Or any films your looking forward to seeing?

Big Show, you think you impress the Rock? Let The Rock make something perfectly clear to you. You have never, and The Rock means never, impressed The Rock. From the time your crappy music hits... Well, it's the Big Slow! And every single Rock fan stops, pauses, and takes a look, and they all say this: 'I'm going to take a leak; this guy sucks!'

It sounds to 'The Great One' that 15,000 of The Rock's fans are callin' you a slut!

'It's a funny thing this celebrity. If you don't wave back you're a miserable bugger, if you do wave back you're a big-headed bugger. I don't know.'

'This shitty guitar never plays the chords I want it to play. It only knows three chords, but let's see what happens. This is for all you lovely, crazy people out there.' - Queen: Live At Wembley Stadium 1986 (intro to 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love')

The only difference [between promoting a book and a CD] is when I do the readings. My fans are out there in full force, but it's nice to have all the kids there as well. I really love this evolution of writing. Writing is my core, and writing the book was like writing a really long love song. I have 31 pages to elaborate instead of three minutes. And my target audience, although it is children, I don't talk down to them. I want the parents to find it interesting. [Children] sit in my lap. I love it. I've always tried to turn an arena into an intimate setting. So, if I'm already in an intimate setting . . . You get to talk to a few hundred people, and you get to really bring them in, to have an exchange with them that often doesn't occur on the stage.

No fighting, Glorias! Gloria Estefan [the real one] to two female impersonators [Gloria #1 and Gloria #2]

I see each fan of my music as an individual person. I have always tried to deepen those relationships, since I highly value those who enjoy my work.

The greatest feeling is to have [fans who are] so happy to see you.

[The fans} made me strong.

You're where you are because of [fans]. Maybe there's somebody standing there who made a very big effort to come to your show. Maybe this is their only opportunity to be this close to you.

If you take nothing else with you [after this concert] tonight, I do want you to know that you bring me a lot of joy in allowing me the privilege to continue to make music for you, and I thank you for that.

I want to dedicate this to all my fans all over -- because you truly make my life HEAVEN.

I've nutured this relationship [with fans]. I spent a lot of time touring on the road. Hopefully, every time they see me live, there is a deepening of that relationship. Also, when I when I went through that tough accident years ago, they were able to connect with me on a very human and personal level. My battles became theirs. They were able to see a human being struggling with difficult times and turning it into something positive.

Somebody was here the other day from BBC Radio. It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill.

People walk up to me and say, 'You're not as big as you are on telly, are you?' Well, I don't know. How big's your fucking television?

Jade: It would be nice if some of these rock guys from the midwest pick up the record and actually get in to it. It'll be like that metrosexual episode of South Park: those guys will be showing up at the Nickelback concert with product in their hair and wearing a mesh shirt.

Jade: 'We don't encourage our fans to send us dead things.'

Fan: 'Will you sign my ticket?'

'Well, if they're going to KaZaa or Limewire, then I'd have to say they're really behind the times.' (On people downloading Blaqk Audio songs/bonus songs illegally)

I heard you could meet really hot girls there. But I don't know! I don't go on. But I did have a guy that was squatting & pretending to be me. And I had thought I gotten him kicked off, but I heard at the last count that there were about 30-something people pretending to be me on MySpace. So all those guys, you are sick, you need help, and get a therapist or something.

She thinks I'm Davey Havok! (a random girl comes up and starts hugging Jared and says something to the effect 'AFI is such a great band! I can't believe I'm actually hugging the lead singer'.)

I'll play you another track from that LP before the end of the programme, cause I rather like it, I must admit. It's also the kind of record which gets people writing in to say 'I shall never listen to your programme again!' ... that kind of thing... and in a rather perverse way I enjoy that, which is why there's only about twenty of us left. We have a secret handshake and a tie and everything. We can recognize each other in the street.

'Party Line' by Abbreviated Sealing, and of course whenever I criticize the name of a band somebody will write in and say 'Of course what you don't realize is that it's a quote from Jean Jacques Pissoir's Vortex - A Threnody', and it may well be so.

'I love you all...I love you all very much!!'

We've been holding our breath for a long time. Three years of playing the old songs and wondering 'whatever next?' Would it be even weirder than The Dreaming? Would it leave more admirers by the wayside, shaking their heads?... The real fans will happily go along for the ride, even if she isn't going the pretty way.

'It's all one song.' -- Replying to a man in the audience, who said 'It all sounds the same!'

Noam Chomsky, the Dr. No of the hate-America crowd, is accused (by his own fans, of all people) of playing a little too fast and a little too loose with the facts in his latest screed, 'Failed States.' Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor for the London Guardian, writes that he wants to agree with Dr. No but can't find many reasons to in this latest book. --Suzanne Fields, June 22, 2006 [255]

I have no problem with bootlegs, although every time I say that, my lawyer says, 'Oh yes you do.'

I LOVE Toronto. I also really love Japan tough. My fans are so supportive and enthusiastic over there. (Answer on the question where Rihanna's favorite places were)

'It is a great tragedy that Rufus Wainwright is gay.' (responding to screaming female fan)

(Warning on the contact page of his web-site, www.vincentgallo.com) 'If you'd like to send a nude photo of yourself and you were BORN a female, please do so. I would be happy though with a simple photo of your face. It is nice to see the face of someone who writes me. I will only accept JPEG attachments. I will try my best to answer all email that is not offensive or unreasonable. But please be patient. WARNING: To all bitter or jealous or unemployed or frustrated or mean or nasty or under-loved or under-paid or under-hung men and butchy girls. Think before you write to me. THINK HOW SMALL AND SILLY YOU APPEAR WHEN ANGRY JEALOUS AND BITTER--WRITING TO ME LIKE A SCORNED FAN.'

'This is for all the men who wanna see me, and for all the women...who want to BE me!'

I'm all about pleasing the fans.

Erica Palmer: How do you feel about your younger fans? I was told by a fan that because I'm a 15-year-old sXe kid, I have no business listening to AFI. Davey: That's absurd. I'M a fifteen year old sXe kid...er...just older...a lot older.

'Thanks, thank you my darlings, you load of tarts, thank you. I think it's really interesting doing those acoustic things, don't you think? I think in the future, we might really think about introducing some more. So Brian's going to have to go and write some, because I can't.' -Earls Court, 1977

'Hello again, my beauties!...Is it happening? Is everybody okay? Wanna fool around?' -Live at Wembley Stadium, 1986

'I love you guys.' - Josh

:and for the dozens:and dozens of Mankind fans:

I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

I've also gotten weird letters, suicide letters, girls threatening to jump if I don't get in touch with them. So you think, 'This is bullshit,' but then you think, 'What if it's not?' Who wants to take that chance? I write them back, tell them to hang in there, if things are that bad, they have to get better. But I'm not altogether stable myself, so who am I to give advice? (1988)

I've known that there have been a kind of select group of people, amazing die-hard supporters, even through some of the more, shall we say, odd films. These people, bless them, have stuck with me the whole length of the road. To say that you appreciate it is not nearly enough. It's part of the essence, or fuel, of what keeps you going. These people are my boss; they're the ones who keep me employed. A couple of times, they could have said, Let's abandon him. And they haven't. You don't want to let them down. (2004)

I'd just thank the people out there who have been with my up-and-down, weird-road, strange career and supported me and stuck with me all these years. I mean, they're my boss. That's what keeps me working. (2004)

If I had any balls whatsoever, I'd make nothing but Jay and Silent Bob flicks for the rest of my life. However, being a critical whore, I've gotta move on and 'grow' beyond those characters.

I'm gonna play our jams in the schoo'.

My Chemical Romance saves the entire world with the music we play.

I love you all; I love you more than life itself, but you're all fucking mad!

Here's the thing. I always hear that whole 'metal is dead' crap. The truth of the matter is that when we started the Ozzfest, media-wise, yes, metal was dead. But as far as the kids went, it was still huge. It was just that radio and MTV decided it wasn't in vogue with what they wanted to do at the time, so the average person didn't hear too much about it. That's why when it comes to picking the new acts each summer, we have people out there on the internet and in the clubs looking for good music and finding bands that people are excited about. I want to know what the kids are into, because I don't trust the industry.

I have a message for anyone coming to the Ozzfest this summer (Summer, 2000): If you're planning to jump up onstage during my set, please do not give me any bear hugs, because they fucking hurt. Listen to me, I'm dead serious. On the first night of last year's tour, this enormous guy jumped up onstage and gave me a huge bear hug. He crushed 3 of my ribs and I had to do the whole tour in absolute agony. I couldn't believe it, the first fucking show!

There is something fucking unbelievable about seeing all of the fans go crazy and chanting 'Ozzy!' I would pay to see them..

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