“I don’t want to be a clown anymore. I don’t want to be a ‘rock and roll star.”
Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter
Rolling Stone Magazine interview, November 1970
Deborah Johns, vice president of the Tea Party Express, quoted in * 2009-11-06
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“I don’t want to be a clown anymore. I don’t want to be a ‘rock and roll star.”
Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter
Rolling Stone Magazine interview, November 1970
“Nothing, but nothing, is as washed up as a rock star past her prime.”
Bart Bull American journalist
Arizona Republic, 1984
Chris Rea (1951) English singer-songwriter
John Henry Walsh (1997 May 2) " The reluctant rocker https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-reluctant-rocker-1259348.html" by The Independent <br class="br">1997
Anita Pallenberg (1942–2017) German actress, model and Rolling Stones groupie
As quoted in a Vanity Fair magazine article, September 1989.
Pink (singer) (1979) American singer-songwriter
So What, written by Pink, Max Martin, and Shellback
Song lyrics, Funhouse (2008)
“My name is Bono and I am a rock star.”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
An allusion to Apple Computer's "switch" commercials, which ended with such statements.
PENN Address (2004)