Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid is a powerful story, packed with unforgettable quotes about music, love, and much more.
With the release of the Daisy Jones and The Six TV show adaptation, I was inspired to share my favorite quotes from the book!
What is Daisy Jones & The Six about?
This popular novel follows a rock n’ roll group – including an enigmatic woman named Daisy Jones who joins the group as a singer and songwriter – in the 1970’s during their rise to fame, and what ultimately caused the breakup of their beloved band.
The story is loosely inspired by Fleetwood Mac, and the relationship between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.
It’s told in an oral/interview format, where the characters (band members) are all looking back on their lives and telling a story in their own words.
Who wrote it?
Daisy Jones and The Six is written by Taylor Jenkins Reid, a popular fiction author who mainly writes historical fiction and romantic contemporary fiction.
Here are all of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books in order. (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is an amazing read!).
Best Quotes from Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
This story is about music, love, addiction, fame, and the human condition. So of course, it’s full of insightful and beautiful quotes!
Below, I’m sharing the ones that stuck with me the most.
“There’s this peace that comes with knowing you have a person in the world who would do anything for you, that you would do anything for.”
-Daisy, page 14
“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.”
-Daisy, page 16
“[…] there was a calmness to her that … nobody else had. It felt like when I was with her, I knew everything would be fine. It was like I was following the North Star.”
-Billy, page 25
“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
-Karen, page 29
“It was the first time I heard a crowd that big roar for me. All these people, coming together, looking and sounding like a living being. This booming, bellowing, living thing.
Once I felt that, I wanted to feel that all the time.”
-Daisy, page 105
“People say that life keeps moving, but they don’t mention that it does stop sometimes, just for you. Just for you and your girl.”
-Graham, page 145
” […] I’d believe your soul mate was somebody who had all the things you didn’t, that needed all the things you had.”
-Karen, page 177
“It hurts to care about someone more than they care about themselves. I can tell that story from both sides.”
-Billy, page 181
“[It’s] what we all want from art, isn’t it? When someone pins down something that feels like it lives inside us? Takes a piece of your heart out and shows it to you? It’s like they are introducing you to a part of yourself.”
-Billy, page 202
“You know, when you have music that has all the knots sanded down and the scratches buffed out…where’s the emotion in that?”
-Billy, page 207
“History is what you did, not what you almost did, not what you thought about doing. And I was proud of what I did.”
-Billy, page 213
“[…] loving somebody isn’t perfection and good times and laughing and making love. Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it’s a gut punch.
[…] You have to be with someone that deserves your faith and you have to be deserving of someone else’s. It’s sacred.”
-Billy, page 214
“[…] I suppose everybody hurts everybody, but women always seem to get back up, you ever notice that? Women are always still standing.”
-Graham, page 217
“It seemed like there wasn’t anything about me, any truth that I could tell him, that he wouldn’t accept. Acceptance is a powerful drug.”
-Daisy, page 235
“Everything that made [her] burn, made me burn. […] We were two halves. We were the same. In that way that you’re only the same with a few other people. In that way that you don’t even feel like you have to say your own thoughts because you know the other person is already thinking them.”
-Billy, page 288
“Passion is…it’s fire. And fire is great, man. But we’re made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive.”
-Billy, page 289
“Don’t count yourself out this early […]. You’re all sorts of things you don’t even know yet.”
-Camila, page 320
And there you have it: my favorite Daisy Jones and The Six quotes! There’s such a range of emotions, and I think they really capture what it’s like to be human, and how we use art (in the form of music) to connect. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. 🙂
For more from this author, be sure to check out this list of Taylor Jenkins Reid books in order!