Jovi Quotes & Sayings

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

It's a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first - I don't have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music. — Kip Winger

The movies are celluloid hemorrhoids. No, worse: They're celluloid Bon Jovi. — Kyle Smith

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

Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey. — Jon Bon Jovi

We all need to be blind sometimes in order to see. — Jon Bon Jovi

Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable. — Eddie Trunk

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

One of my favorite "deep thoughts" on the topic occurred when one of my other bands, Loaded, was opening for Alice Cooper a number of years back. After one particularly successful show, we got to talking about Bon Jovi. In the song "Wanted Dead Or Alive," the claim is made that "I've seen a million faces, and I've rocked them all." All? Let's ponder.
I have no doubt that Bon Jovi had played to a million people by the time "Dead or Alive" was released on Slippery When Wet in 1986. But did they rock them all? Couldn't it be that some dudes brought their girlfriends to the show and weren't necessarily into their music? What about some parents? Or maybe some people just didn't get rocked? Hey, it's happened to me. I've gone to gigs properly prepared to get rocked and it just didn't happen. — Duff McKagan

I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford. — 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

When your 18th, 19, 20 years old like we were at that time, its just like anyone else, you look at like Silverchair and bands like that that are super young and sound extremely derivative of bands that were out at that current moment. As they sounded like 'Nirvana in pajamas' as we called them, we sounded like Bon Jovi and Skid Row and Motley Crue, because we were only influenced by what was out at the time because we were so young — Butch Walker

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

Elton John said to me, "I have all the negatives." — 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 went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song. — Jon Bon Jovi

My health and my family are the core of my being. — Jon Bon Jovi

New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra. — Queen Latifah

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

Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear — Jon Bon Jovi

Your skin is screaming for attention like a middle-aged woman in the front row at a Bon Jovi concert. — Kim Holden

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

All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth. — Jon Bon Jovi

I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time. — Jon Bon Jovi

I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health. — 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

You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast — Jon Bon Jovi

We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans. — Richie Sambora

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience. — Jon Bon Jovi

You can't win until you're not afraid to lose. — 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

Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks. — Jon Bon Jovi

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? — 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

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

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

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

I'm not a big disco guy. — Jon Bon Jovi

We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle. — Gary Cherone

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

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

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

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 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

Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster. — Jon Bon Jovi

Toby Keith writes songs like 1993's "Should've Been a Cowboy," and what's compelling is that you can't deconstruct its message. "Should've Been a Cowboy" is not like Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive," where Jon Bon Jovi claimed to live like a cowboy; Toby Keith wants to be a cowboy for real. — Chuck Klosterman

And I laughed so hard I think I died — Jon Bon Jovi

You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose — Jon Bon Jovi

When Bon Jovi goes out on tour again, that's who I'm going to go see because some of it survives... while the rest becomes compost in the garden of rock 'n' roll. — Lonn Friend

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

Jersey girls have this inner glow that makes them more beautiful than any other girls. — Jon Bon Jovi

I think record companies are criminals. — Jon Bon Jovi

If Elton John and Madonna had a baby it would be Lady Gaga. — Jon Bon Jovi

If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful. — Jon Bon Jovi

I started a band because I actually thought I could be Bon Jovi, and now here I am, sitting in a puddle of sludge in an abandoned car park with a bloody nose and soggy underpants, covered in sick. — Christopher Russell

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

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

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

The early Bon Jovi stuff I can't stand. I just think we didn't have our stylistic voice. But some people love some of that stuff. — Richie Sambora

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

When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi! — Amy Ryan

We're always looking for something. — Jon Bon Jovi

I'd rather die than fade away — 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

Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago. — 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

Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock & roll. — Jon Bon Jovi

Holy Bon Jovi, the queen of darkness actually had a soul. — Lynn Mitchell

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

Keep the faith." -- Jon Bon Jovi — Michele L. Mathews

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

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football. — Jon Bon Jovi

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. — 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

It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that. — Sam Kinison

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

RICHIE: My journey has been steadfast: to be Jon's right-hand man. First and foremost, I try to always be there for him, as a friend, on a musical level, and from a business standpoint where he can use me as a mirror for himself. We've always looked to Frank and Dean. Frank was the Chairman and Dean was the right-hand man. That's the way it was. It was a dynamic duo. — 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 go to the theater, all the time. I'm not one of these secret movie, watch a 35mm print in my living the weekend it comes out guys. I'm not Jon Bon Jovi. I go to the Arclight, like a regular asshole. — Seth Rogen

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