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If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness.
I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.
I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.
We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction.
I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.
Hearing a lot of early rock n' roll records from a very young age was a huge influence.
I used to run home from school, pick up my guitar, and lock myself in my room and play.
In the real world, people just get on with their lives. And that's where AC/DC come in.
It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas.
To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.
The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.
I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.
Music is nothing but a door opener to meet families and their children and the elderly.
If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research
I think America as a whole has come more to terms with separating war from the warrior.
The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.
There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.
It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.
The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.
You can never learn it all and I hope to continue my growth as a person and a musician.
You're stuck in front of the microphone. You can't use your hands. I like to do things.
I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.
I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound
Rock is stronger than any misguided theories of cultural events. It's bigger than that.
I know Mick Jagger wouldn’t tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.
I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.
We played with AC/DC. There are actual recordings of us doing 'Johnny B Good' together.
I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.
I don't think I listen to anything that I did when I was 17. I've changed a great deal.
Phish has run its course and that we should end it now while it's still on a high note.
No journalist knows the ins and outs of the Allman Brothers Band better than Alan Paul.
I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.
You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.
I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.
Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.
Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
The Musicians Hall of Fame is chosen by thousands of your peers. So it's the real thing.
I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.
I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?
The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.
Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.
I was doing clubs when I was 16. I grew up in New York, so back then, you could do that.
I never take medication for pain. I want to know if the pain is getting better or worse.
The guitar speaks for me and it says things - hopefully - for everybody that I play for.
The closer you get to the source, the more you begin to understand its essential nature.
I have no skanky guys in my band nor on my bus. If they are they get the boot real quick