Musician Quotes

How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?

Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.

All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music... and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.

Well, first I'd want a better vibrato.

This guy kept telling us that rock was the big thing, everyone's talking about the big thing, our band was the big thing. So he made us change our name to The Big Thing. Can you believe that?!

Sometimes I'll be playing along and find I'm missing the strings. I'll worry about it for days until I notice that the pick has worn down to half its size.

I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.

I just get all jacked up when we start cooking.

But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.

After The Ventures I dug Johnny Smith quite a bit.

About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting.

The dull and stupid have a much easier time of it.

You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

When we toured... I was hungry to take out people like Jeff Beck in front of us; Fleetwood Mac, just before they hit; Heart, just before they hit.

What we're saying now is you have a choice: You can stay, or you can go away.

We're giving RCA another record, and that should finish them.

We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.

Then you get to be involved with all the people, meet all the beautiful girls, get all the good food, get ready and locked in before all the crowds hit.

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.

Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.

I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.