Quotes About Fame

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics ' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.

I want to be famous but unknown!

My name used to be in the papers daily As having dined somewhere, Or traveled somewhere, Or rented a house in Paris, Where I entertained the nobility. I was forever eating or traveling, Or taking the cure at Baden-Baden. Now I am here to do honor To Spoon River, here beside the family whence I sprang. No one cares now where I dined, Or lived, or whom I entertained, Or how often I took the cure at Baden-Baden!

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled,On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be filed.

Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener.

Garbo Talks!

I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV.

All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.

[Joe Gillis]: You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.[Norma Desmond]: I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!

They crawled out of the woodworkAnd they whispered into your brain.They set you on a treadmillAnd they made you change your name.And it seems to me you lived your lifeLike a candle in the wind.

Many are in high place, and of renown: but mysteries are revealed unto the meek.

His fame was noised throughout all the country.

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon… she came to prove him with hard questions.