Jon Bon Jovi Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
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 — Jon Bon Jovi
I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.' — Jon Bon Jovi
What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house. — Jon Bon Jovi
If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
It's easy to say, 'I love you,' to someone, but it's more meaningful to thank someone for loving you. — Jon Bon Jovi
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 — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
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 — Jon Bon Jovi
I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health. — Jon Bon Jovi
I could always write songs, act, get into politics, or stay home with the kids. But I've got to have some fun. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that. — Jon Bon Jovi
There are those who advocate, and those who do. I'm not trying to slight my peers, but there is a difference between using a soapbox and actually getting your hands dirty. I've spent not only years and millions of dollars but hours and hours and hours of my time doing what I do, and that's very different from what anyone else is doing. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
I'm not a big disco guy. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever
decide to leave, she is coming with me." — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were both Marines. — Jon Bon Jovi
You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster. — Jon Bon Jovi
You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose — Jon Bon Jovi
I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either. — Jon Bon Jovi
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. — Jon Bon Jovi
My heart is like an open highway ... people come and go and sometimes they are just beside you and you dont know — Jon Bon Jovi
I was a boy toy for a bunch of women. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing. — Jon Bon Jovi
Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, "You're so straight, we're not interested." — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you. — Jon Bon Jovi
Falling in love is painful on the knees. — Jon Bon Jovi
I like progress but I hate change. — Jon Bon Jovi
I didn't vote for [President Bush]. But I've never said anything bad about the guy because I have respect for the office. — Jon Bon Jovi
Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. — Jon Bon Jovi
JON: Lost Highway was an introspective record because we took a look at ourselves and left ourselves open to scrutiny by sharing those situations and feelings beyond the four of us. It was a great growth record. We were in a place where we had something to write about and turn our lives into big, broad subject matter. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
It's a bitch and life's a rollercoaster ride.
The ups and downs will make you scream sometimes.
It's hard believing that the thrill is gone,
But we gotta go around again, so let's hold on.
- Lie to Me — Jon Bon Jovi
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 — Jon Bon Jovi
I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me. — Jon Bon Jovi
The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out. — Jon Bon Jovi
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 — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands? — Jon Bon Jovi
A friend of mine, a friend of yours. My better half, Richard Stephen Sambora — Jon Bon Jovi
I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football. — Jon Bon Jovi
We're always looking for something. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock & roll. — Jon Bon Jovi
If you could see yourself the way that others do, you'd wish you were as beautiful as you. — Jon Bon Jovi
With an iron-clad fist, I wake up and French-kiss the morning. — Jon Bon Jovi
It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just wanna live while I'm alive
It's my life — Jon Bon Jovi
When the World Gets in my Face I say, Have a Nice Day. — Jon Bon Jovi
You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed. — Jon Bon Jovi
My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege. — Jon Bon Jovi
I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
And I laughed so hard I think I died — Jon Bon Jovi
Nothing is as important as passion. — Jon Bon Jovi
How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them? — Jon Bon Jovi
It's my life and it's now or never. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
Jersey girls have this inner glow that makes them more beautiful than any other girls. — Jon Bon Jovi
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? — Jon Bon Jovi
In our town, the most popular way out was joining the service. So my three best friends joined the Navy to get out. I didn't. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
When you're about to give up and your heart's about to break,
remember that you're perfect,
God makes no mistakes. — Jon Bon Jovi
Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you. — Jon Bon Jovi
I'M ONLY AS SUCCESSFUL AS THE GUY THAT LIVES DOWN THE STREET FROM ME. — Jon Bon Jovi
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. — Jon Bon Jovi
If Elton John and Madonna had a baby it would be Lady Gaga. — Jon Bon Jovi