Bon Jovi Quotes

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

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

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

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

We're always looking for something. ~ 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

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

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

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

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

Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in. ~ Jon Bon Jovi

I like progress but I hate change. ~ 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

This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. And they say Obama's not black enough! ~ Conan O'Brien

I'M ONLY AS SUCCESSFUL AS THE GUY THAT LIVES DOWN THE STREET FROM ME. ~ 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

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

Some of my best friends are gay guys, and they said, "You're so straight, we're not interested." ~ Jon Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi is most definitely the key to how I am able to write so much in a day ~ C.S. Woolley

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

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

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

You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me. ~ Jon Bon Jovi

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues. ~ Jon Bon Jovi

You promised me Heaven...
And put me through Hell! ~ Bon Jovi

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

You better stand tall when they're calling you out, don't bend, don't break, and don't back down! ~ 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

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

I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health. ~ 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 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 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'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time. ~ 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

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

You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose ~ 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

Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion. ~ Michael Azerrad

Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums. ~ Psy

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

Time ain't nothing, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme,
And it all come down to you.
«El tiempo solo es tiempo. Es un verso sin rima, y todo depende de ti.» ~ Kerstin Gier

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos. ~ Jon Bon Jovi

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands? ~ 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

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

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

All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth. ~ 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

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

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

When the World Gets in my Face I say, Have a Nice Day. ~ 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

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

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

The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing. ~ Jon Bon Jovi

I've got my old favorites like The Eagles and Bon Jovi. ~ Niall Horan

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

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

Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end. ~ Jon Bon Jovi

And I laughed so hard I think I died ~ 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

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

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you. ~ Jon Bon Jovi

If Elton John and Madonna had a baby it would be Lady Gaga. ~ 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

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

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

The soundtrack should be a lilting indie affair; equal parts hopeful and with a broken, bittersweet lyric hook that makes your heart hurt for some unknown reason. But instead it's scored by the 1980s hair metal I found in an incriminating iPod playlist titledGym.

"You seriously got those abs while listening to Poison and Bon Jovi," I crow, and he can't deny it. It's just us, windows down, stereo cranked, the road curling in front of us like a tongue. ~ Sally Thorne

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

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

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

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 would kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet ~ 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

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

You can't win until you're not afraid to lose. ~ Jon Bon Jovi

With an iron-clad fist, I wake up and French-kiss the morning. ~ Jon Bon Jovi

Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable. ~ Eddie Trunk

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

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on. ~ 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

Jersey girls have this inner glow that makes them more beautiful than any other girls. ~ 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

He's got some obsession with feathers. Sings lots of Bon Jovi too. ~ Anonymous

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

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

There's not a platinum record hanging in my house anywhere. It doesn't exist here. I'm over it. They're all in the garage, wrapped up in bubblewrap. ~ 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

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 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

I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing. ~ Fernando Pessoa

The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought. ~ Gustave Le Bon

Presently comfort came to him, and he thought the she had always given him of her strength though he had never quite realised it until now.
Glory had passed him by; fame too perhaps would not endure; it might well be that the incalculable goddess would decree ill fame as his due. Perhaps there might not be included in his epitah the one tribute to his knighthood the he knew he deserved "Ii fut toujours bon et loyal chevalier" (He was always good and loyal knight)
But whatever the shadowed years might bring, as long as life should last, he knew that he had here at his side one sure recompense and one abiding loyalty. ~ Anya Seton

Words whose sense is the most ill-defined are sometimes those that possess the most influence. Such, for example, are the terms democracy, socialism, equality, liberty, &c., whose meaning is so vague that bulky volumes do not suffice to precisely fix it. Yet it is certain that a truly magical power is attached to those short syllables, as if they contained the solution of all problems. ~ Gustave Le Bon

To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu. ~ Thomas A. Edison

What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to idealize this job a lot. When you're an actress and you're really famous, it means people believe you are on top of the world - and I think that's not true. ~ Charlotte Le Bon

The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them. ~ Gustave Le Bon