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He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.
I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.
I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.
The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.
You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.
I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.
I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.
I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.
Going to the Grammys, being nominated for a Grammy, that was a really big deal for me, for us as a band.
It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar.
I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.
I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'
I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.
I feel that if you're in the public eye in any way that you do have a little bit of influence on people.
I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.
I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.
I really try to play to my strengths, man. I'm never going to be Guthrie Govan: he's a brilliant player.
I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there.
If the whole idea, in the original bebop days, was to get to soloing, then that's all it should be about.
Australian bands are so self-deprecating - then they go on stage and blow every other band off the stage.
I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.
Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.
It's a drag not to have your own plane, man. That way, you could go where you wanna go when you wanna go.
Recognize a rock 'n' roller for what he is, which is a damned lucky guy not to have to work for a living.
The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the kids.
Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.
I think mostly music just felt good because my parents gave me a real good childhood so I was rarely sad.
I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.
I think one of the most valuable things Aerosmith has is the energy we produce when we all play together.
Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.
My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?
The guitar l learned on was probably worth $4 or something, but it was priceless to me. It meant so much.
I much rather coach a string quartet in an interpretation of Haydn or Beethoven than to teach the guitar.
The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.
Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.
I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.
When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react.
I think you never want to limit yourself to one style of anything. Why put those limitations on yourself?
The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can't wait to go, but you don't want to leave.
If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.
I wish I had perfect pitch, but I don't, and thanks to the miracle of YouTube, a bad night lives forever!
Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.
I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff.
A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
Every time we go to New Zealand, it gets harder to leave. Everyone's always treated us like we're at home.
I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.