Jon Bon Jovi famous quotes

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Positive #Success #Fall

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

#Inspiring #Dream #Believe

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

#Winning #Not Afraid

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

#Marriage #Wife #Secret

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

#Inspirational #Missing You #Opportunity

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

#Thinking

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

#Daughter #Mother #Fighting

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

#Fighting #Men #World

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

#Heart #Unique #Brain

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

#Thinking #Mountain #Matter

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

#Birthday #Vintage #Age

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

#Jeans #Guy #Pairs

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

#Passion #Athlete #Winning

Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Time #Rhyme #Verses

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#New York #Growing Up #Shadow

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Teenage #Kids #Mirrors

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

#Past #Glasses #Half

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

#Art #Emotional #Piano

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Boys #Years #Gone

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Travel #Journey #Long

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

#Order #Needs #Sometimes

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Play #Cards #Lines

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

#Wife #Lawyer #My Wife

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Inspirational #Passion #Important

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

#Miracle #Perception #Everyday

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

#Night #Circles #Bed

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Educational #Inspiration #Goal

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

#Rocks #Trying #Seducing

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

#Ties #Firsts #Watches

The internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Networking #Bob #Next

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

#Kissing #Light #Letters

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

#Stars #Years #Rocks

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

#Sex #Rocks #Years

I think record companies are criminals.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Thinking #Criminals #Records

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

#Thinking #Names #Causes

Passion + Persistence = Possibility
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Passion #Persistence #Possibility

How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Band #Replacements #Being The Best

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

#Acting #Would Be #Looks

I would kick this bad world's ***** if I could just get on my feet
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Feet #World #Ass

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

#Responsibility #Ozone #Effort

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

#Baseball #Football #Guy

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesn’t need any more gray. On the other hand, we can’t get enough color. Mediocrity is nobody’s goal and perfection shouldn’t be either. We’ll never be perfect. But remember these three P’s: Passion + Persistence = Possibility.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Passion #Persistence #Hands

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

#Mean #Hair #Sick

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...Plus, being married and monogamous, it's the closest thing I can do to having sex without getting in trouble for it...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

#Sex #Rocks #Years

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

#Successful #People

A friend of mine, a friend of yours. My better half, Richard Stephen Sambora
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Half

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

#Travel #Home #Night

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

#Foundation #Speak #Philanthropy

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

#Marriage #Love You #Independent

I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Praying #I Pray

Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Dream #Believe #Believe In Your Dreams

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

#Heaven #Looks #Jersey

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

#Baby #Would Be #Gaga

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

#Running #Mean #Sneakers

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

#Song #Baby #Morning

I like progress but I hate change.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Hate #Progress #I Hate

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

#Music #Eye #Lips

It's easy to say, 'I love you,' to someone, but it's more meaningful to thank someone for loving you.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Love #Meaningful #Loving You

If you could see yourself the way that others do, you'd wish you were as beautiful as you.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Beautiful #Wish #Way

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

#Song #Islands #Long

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

#Jeans #People #Hendrix

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

#House #Records #Platinum

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

#Stones #Knees #Way

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

#Guy #Bigs #Disco

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

#School #Issues #Catholic

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

#Football #Nfl #Want

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

#My Family

I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Glasses #Broken #Broken Glass

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Thinking #Fans #Cruise

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

#Believe #Night #Dust

Falling in love is painful on the knees.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Falling In Love #Pain #Love Is

When the World Gets in my Face I say, Have a Nice Day.
-- Jon Bon Jovi

#Nice #World #Faces

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

#Giving Up #Mistake #Heart

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

#Hate #Voice #People

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

#Song #Baby #Way

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

#Beautiful #Girl #Jersey

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

#Guitar #Chords

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

#Play #Faces #Causes

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

#Forever #Now Or Never #Alive

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

#Looks #Pay #Faces

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

#Stars #Love You #Forever

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

#Running #Sneakers #Needs

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

#Song #Hands #Take My Hand

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

#Morning #Kissing #Iron

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

#Yesterday #Waste