Was Nico really a muse? Wasn’t she really just a band member? Maybe Warhol was smitten, but he didn’t play any music.

The most glaring omission from this list is Sara Dylan. She inspired some of Dylan’s greatest love songs and one of the greatest breakup albums of all time (Blood on the Tracks). Once they broke up at the end of the 70’s he lost his inspiration and will to put out his great material or even record.

kudos for recognizing de mornay and her influence on leonard cohen, although God knows why he was smitten with a two-bit actress like her.

Evan Dando – *LMFAO*

Carol Mountain

Britney Spears. All of Timberlake’s love songs post-Brit are about her, not that Diaz chick.

that is all.

Patti Boyd — Layla anyone?

Damn straight I vas a muse! I’ll Keep it Vit Mine! Femme Fatale! Chelsea Hotel! I vas der UBER MUSE schatze!

Cat Stevens wrote a song about me. It sucked. Don Johnson’s “Heartbeat” is about me too!

Don’t forget me! Mick wrote a song about me except I forgot which one. Rod wrote “Hot Legs” for me. My sister was in Wilson Phillips but I wasn’t.

I gotta tell ya, dude… the first time I played “Eruption,” it was like Valerie Bertinelli was playing the strings of my heart.

i just wrote a song about mariah carey’s thighs

call me Rod!

Like a Rolling Stone anyone?

Courtney Love….wait, I’m sorry this is the muse catagory not a catagory for evil succubui

Courtney Love….wait, I’m sorry this is the muse catagory not a catagory for evil succubi

Eric W,
Nico inspired Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan to write songs, but you’re right, putting her in this category sort of downplays her role as a musician, and…

Um, Nico,
You came up with the chorus for “I’ll be Your Mirror” but you were in the band, so I don’t know how muse-esque that is. And “Femme Fatale” is actually about Edie Sedgwick, not you, which is actualy good news.

But I think you’re the inspiration for The Caroline character from Lou Reed’s Berlin album, the “Germanic Queen” with a heart as cold as “Alaska” who “put her fist through a window pane.” Not great…

Rosanne Arquette certainly belongs on that list, inspriting artists from Toto to Peter Gabriel.

Achtung, baby, but I DID inspire Femme Fatale, and all those Jackson Browne songs, and Mr. Big’s “Too Be With You,” and Jimi’s solo in “Captain Coconut.” Edie Sedgvick can blow me.

“Two bit actress”? I guess SOMEBODY didn’t notice how AWESOME I was in “And God Created Woman ‘88.” Leonard was lucky I inspired him to write “Anthem,” but he’s still bitter he didn’t get to do the theme for “The Hand that Rocks The Cradle.”

Janis Joplin- See Chelsea Hotel No. 2

not peter gabriel though…even I have standards dollink!

ok i know he’s a guy but he mused some of the greatest songs of all time by pink floyd, who im talking about is syd barret that crazy motherf*$cker about which the entire album wish u were here is about

Bebe Buell

(for inspiring Steven Tyler, Todd Rundgren, and Elvis Costello)

Nobody’s going to mention Linda Eastman McCartney????

i have gotten a lot of inspiration from chrissie hynde…she is my musical muse.

Linda Eastman McCartney doesn’t count, because she inspired Paul to form Wings.

I am shocked, shocked to discover the incomprehensible lack of mention of the young Grace Slick?!? Hmmmmm?

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Joan Baez

Linda McCartney slept with Tim Buckley before she found Paul.

Does anyone remember Patti Boyd ? She was one of the biggest muse of the past century. She inspired Eric Clapton and George Harrison to write many of their masterpieces. “Something”, “For You Blue”, and “I Need You” were written by Harrison. Clapton wrote for her “Wonderful Tonight”, “Pretty Blue Eyes”,”Golden Ring”, Pretty Girl” and “”Never Make You Cry”. That is 7 songs by two of the most talented musicians written for ONE very inspirational woman.

Linda may have inspired Wings, but she inspired Paul to write “My Love” for her, “Linda” was a song in the ’40s for her, and Paul dedicated many songs to her. So before you say Linda wasn’t a muse, learn you facts first.

I do find Yoko a muse, but Pattie had more songs for her; both George and Eric. Anita and Marianne were also great muses for Mick and Keith/Brian.