Musician Quotes

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him, it was a really comfortable. He was a cool guy. Easy laugh, nice guy.

I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.

I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.

I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it.

I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.

Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.

It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow.

Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.