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Quotable Musicans Trivia Quiz

Here's some quotes by famous popular musicians. I'll supply the quote. You guess the musician.

A multiple-choice quiz by dinkytown. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
dinkytown

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
105,137

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. After a German reporter told him/her that Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young believed that they stopped the Vietnam War, he/she said, "I believe that immediately. They were those kind of guys." Hint

Bob Dylan

Patti Smith

Michael Stipe

John Lennon

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Question 2 of 10

2. "I hope I die before I become Pete Townsend." Hint

Roger Daltrey

Eddie Vedder

Billy Corgan

Kurt Cobain

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Question 3 of 10

3. "We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first. Rock and roll or Christianity."
Hint

George Harrison

John Lennon

Mick Jagger

Keith Richard

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who called Garth Brooks "the anti-Hank"? Hint

Jerry Jeff Walker

Steve Earle

Emmy Lou Harris

Ray Wylie Hubbard

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who hit Abbie Hoffman with a guitar during Woodstock, because Hoffman was interrupting the music with a political rant? (Strictly speaking, this is not a quote. However, several court rulings have accepted the theory that actions can be construed as symbolic speech, and the performer who hit Hoffman was certainly expressing an opinion.) Hint

Steve Stills

John Sebastian

Pete Townsend

Jimi Hendrix

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Question 6 of 10

6. When asked to sing one of his/her golden oldies, he/she said, "Nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint 'Starry Night' again, man!' You know. He painted it; that was that." Hint

Ricky Nelson

Joni Mitchell

Don McLean

Lucinda Williams

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Question 7 of 10

7. "We live in a world of fantasy where Disney has won, the fantasy of Disney. It's all fantasy. That's why I think that if a writer has something to say, he should say it all." Hint

Lou Reed

Neil Young

Bob Dylan

Jon Langford

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who said the following in response to Allen Bloom's attack on rock music as a barbaric appeal to undeveloped and untutored sexual desire? "This is a puff pastry version of the belief that music is the work of the Devil: that the nasty ol' Devil plays his fiddle and people dance around and we don't want to see them twitching like that. In fact, if one wants to be a real artist in the United States today and comment on our culture, one would be very far off the track if one did something delicate or sublime. This is not a noble, delicate, sublime country. This is a mess run by criminals. Performers who are doing the crude, vulgar, repulsive things Bloom doesn't enjoy are only commenting on that fact." Hint

Frank Zappa

Frank Black

Ozzie Osbourne

Randy Newman

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Question 9 of 10

9. "One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff. If you do that, then you're not a musician anymore, then you're just a self-satisfied nostalgic idiot who's not interested in inventing anything." Hint

Joni Mitchell

Lou Reed

Sally Timms

Ryan Adams

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Question 10 of 10

10. "Nothing I have ever done was intended to be art for art's sake. I always thought lots of people could like what I was doing if they heard it. I always wanted to sell records." Hint

Randy Newman

Richard Thompson

Captain Beefheart

Daniel Johnston

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. After a German reporter told him/her that Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young believed that they stopped the Vietnam War, he/she said, "I believe that immediately. They were those kind of guys."

Answer: Bob Dylan

Steve Stills wasn't impressed with Dylan. Stills once said that while Bob was a good songwriter, he was no musician.

2. "I hope I die before I become Pete Townsend."

Answer: Kurt Cobain

The quote is from Cobain's recently published journal. Pete responded to Cobain's posthumous put-down with an article in which he said that he wasn't old and boring by the date of Cobain's entry and that he survived while Cobain didn't, because he was tougher and smarter.

3. "We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first. Rock and roll or Christianity."

Answer: John Lennon

A lot of Christians were outraged; some publicly burned their Beatles' records. However there was little public outrage a few years later when John compared himself to Jesus in "The Ballad of John and Yoko." "Christ! You know it ain't easy. You know how hard it can be. The way things are going, they're gonna crucify me."

4. Who called Garth Brooks "the anti-Hank"?

Answer: Steve Earle

Steve's never been popular with the Nashville country music establishment. He says that they don't like some of the things he says, and that they would prefer that he didn't say anything. Keep on rocking Steve.

Answer: Pete Townsend

Pete later was quoted as saying that he hated Woodstock.

6. When asked to sing one of his/her golden oldies, he/she said, "Nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint 'Starry Night' again, man!' You know. He painted it; that was that."

Answer: Joni Mitchell

Recently a heckler at a Ryan Adams concert shouted for Bryan Adams' "Summer of 69." Ryan found the offender, refunded his ticket price, and refused to continue performing until the miscreant left the building.

7. "We live in a world of fantasy where Disney has won, the fantasy of Disney. It's all fantasy. That's why I think that if a writer has something to say, he should say it all."

Answer: Bob Dylan

The quote is from a 2001 "La Republica" interview. The interviewer also asked Dylan if he was looking out for new writers, and Dylan replied, "Yeah, but I don't believe there are any, because we live in
another age. The media is very invasive. What could you possibly write that you haven't seen every day in the newspapers or on television?"

Answer: Frank Zappa

The quote is from an article Frank wrote for an issue of the New Perspectives Quarterly which discussed whether American culture was in decay. In the same article, Frank also said, "In general, anti-rock propositions began when rock 'n roll began, and most of these were racially motivated.

In the 50s, petitions were circulated which said, 'Don't allow your children to buy Negro records.' The petitions referred to the "raw unbridled passion" of screaming people with dark skin who were going to drive our children wild.

Some things never go out of fashion in certain ideological camps. They are like tenets of the faith."

Answer: Lou Reed

Lou apparently isn't interested in painting 'Starry Night' again either.

10. "Nothing I have ever done was intended to be art for art's sake. I always thought lots of people could like what I was doing if they heard it. I always wanted to sell records."

Answer: Randy Newman

Recently Randy put out a version of Faust in which the devil came off better than either God or Faust were the villains. Randy gave himself the part of the devil, James Taylor was God, and Don Henley was Faust.

Source: Author dinkytown

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