Disgraceland Quotes

“Dreams are hopeless aspirations in hopes of coming true / Believe in yourself / The rest is up to me and you.”
― Jake Brennan, Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly

“Real artists take risks in the service of their art. They’re free. Like me. Unafraid to expose themselves and brave enough to open themselves up to the criticism. Brave enough to corner that raging beast and to expose”
― Jake Brennan, Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly

“Getting ahead in the music industry is tough stuff. Getting ahead in the music industry with a two-gram-a-day habit and a hotel tan is brutal—so having a dependable supply of smack nearby was clutch.”
― Jake Brennan, Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly

“racist attitudes affected who and how you could love. Free love was always a joke. Ask Sammy Davis Jr. about “free love.”
― Jake Brennan, Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly

“Axl, unaware of who he was fucking with, began manically flailing and seriously pissing off members of the Saddle Tramps motorcycle club. Local security knew where their bread was buttered and went at Axl instead of at the bikers.”
― Jake Brennan, Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly

“This being St. Louis, the domestic was Clydesdale piss from the brewery of Messrs. Anheuser and Busch.”
― Jake Brennan, Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly