Musician Quotes

You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.

When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

When I was five I had violin lessons.

To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.

I'm not interested in thinking up the name of a band and a logo and all that. Been there, done that, sold a million T-shirts.

I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels.

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

I want to do something creative, not just easy.

I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.

I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that?

I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.

I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while.

I guess I watch more MTV than you do. I'm a junkie for it.

I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.

I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not that kind of a fan.

I do Skid Row every night.