Musician on Musician Insults

“People talk about Eric Clapton. What has he ever done except throw his baby off a fuckin’ ledge and write a song about it?” - Anton Newcombe

Particularly rude in my opinion.

“Taking your clothes off, doing sexy dancing and marrying a rich footballer must be very gratifying. Your mother must be so proud. Stupid bitch.” - Lily Allen

"She is one of the most disgusting human beings in the entire world! She looks like a f---ing drag queen." - Kelly Osbourne

"She's a boner dyke." - Beth Ditto. She went on to add "I'm so offended. She's just riding on the backs of our culture, without having to pay any of the dues and not being actually lesbian or anything at all."

“Where’s the baby? In the closet with an IV?” - Kathleen Hanna


“She’s an ugly fucking bitch.” - Dave Grohl

“As for that drummer, well, he’s hit on me so many times. He’s just a very very conflicted guy about me, which is why he continually writes songs about me to hear he ‘hates’ me more than ‘anyone else.’ Kurt loathed HIM more than anyone else (except a journalist) … He’s just sub-mediocre kind of [guy] who does this ‘nice guy’ nonsense.” - Courtney Love

"I think he's a misogynist and a homophobe." - Moby

"Kanye West is the biggest piece of s--- on Earth." - P!nk

"He's a mean-spirited dwarf. " - Robbie Williams

"In a nutshell, I consider him a cancer and better avoided." - Axl Rose

“I fucked your bitch, you fat motherfucker.” - Tupac

“He’ll never forgive God for not making him Angie Bowie.” - Morrissey

“All that money, and he’s still got hair like a fucking dinner lady.” - Boy George


"The man seems to like singing songs about dead blondes." - Keith Richards


"Elton John is the Liberace of rock -- the token queen." - David Bowie

“He’s such a fake, isn’t he? When he did Live Aid, which made them a worldwide group … he looked out and [saw] that black girl in the middle of all them people, and she’s from Hackney or something, and he was like, ‘Here’s a great shot for me around the world to show I’m Mr Africa.’ It’s like colonialist times with a big white hat.” - Ian Brown

“If Morrissey says not to eat meat, then I’ll eat meat — that’s how much I hate Morrissey.” - Robert Smith


“Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.” - Elvis Costello

“Coldplay are the dictionary definition of corporate rock. The singer is about as weird as Phil Collins. They are career rock personified. EMI should’ve signed Otis The Aadvark instead. At least he only sucks his thumb rather than corporate cock.” - Alan McGee

“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.” - Nick Cave

“They’re really talentless people, and they write crap music, and they’re the most popular rock band on the earth right now. I can’t believe it.” - Kurt Cobain

“Music journalists like Elvis Costello because music journalists look like Elvis Costello.” - David Lee Roth

“There was this other group warming up … and they were terrible. I said, ‘Shut them cunts up!’ And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them … I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.” - Mark E. Smith

“He said he wanted to bring ballet to the working classes. What a cunt.” - Paul Weller

"I just saw a guy who was half the singer and half the performer he used to be, who spray-paints his hair on before he goes onstage and still acts like he's in Van Halen in 1982!" - Sammie Hagar

“A vile, hideous human being with no redeeming qualities.” - Boy George


“Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay £75 to see them should be shot.” - Elton John


"She might have meant something once, but I don't know many people my age who care." - Lily Allen

“It’s like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.” - Elton John

“A malicious guy [who] will step on anybody’s face to succeed, and cross any line of decency.” - Trent Reznor

“John Lennon sings about peace because he’s a woman-beater. Hippies are so full of shit.” Mark E. Everett


"This is middle-of-the-road rock music for plumbers. Or people who drive round in Citroens - the sort of corporate hippies who ruined rock music." - Billy Childish

“We hate Slowdive more than we hate Hitler.” - Richey Edwards

“I’m not quite sure who this person is, to be honest. I don’t know if it is a man or a woman.” - Christina Aguilera


"People say we're similar, that we both mix all these things in the pot and spit them out differently, but she spits it out exactly the same. None of her music's reflective of how weird she wants to be." - M.I.A.

"That guy is an egomaniac. He's a f---ing punk. He's backstage right now acting like f---ing Michael Jackson." - Fred Durst

“He looks like Zorro on doughnuts.” - Noel Gallagher

“A little short ego-ed fucker who I had a feeling didn’t like people of his own race and wanted to be white and taller.” - Rick James

“They play dress-up and sit on top of an apex of meaninglessness. They don’t mean anything to anybody apart from their fucking ugly girlfriends.” - Noel Gallagher

“I get really tired of their pompousness [sic]… We’ve played some shows with them and they really treat people like shit. People treat Arcade Fire like they’re the greatest thing ever and they get away with it… They have good tunes, but they’re pricks, so fuck ‘em.” - Wayne Coyne

“Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.” - Morrissey

"I hate it. It's ignorant." - Natalie Maines in reference to his 'put a boot up your @ss" American Way song.