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McCartney! Haven't met him and haven't played with him. I would LOVE to. He needs to make a kick-ass rockabilly record.
I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.
Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous.
The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.
James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.
I think music comes out of silence... and I have a lot of silent time, without a pesky guitar interrupting my thoughts.
Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.
And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.
When I was five, I heard the end of Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony' with my mother, and I got goosebumps all over my body.
I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.
I often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky I am.
In my touring rig, there's a pedal drawer, where I'm able to switch pedals in and out, going into the front of the amp.
Every other year, I spend Thanksgiving in England with Dave Clark from the Dave Clark Five and a bunch of other people.
I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits
I play as many different things - piano, sax and harp parts - as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to.
I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.
I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.
I plug into a lot of old rock & roll. Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis - I love all that stuff.
Keep what you've got till you get what you need, y'all. You gotta give a lot just to get what you need sometimes, y'all.
In the Shao Lin temple, they never allow you to touch the skin of a drum until you can tongue what you're going to play.
There's nothing wrong with being single and not getting married and being, you know, just an old single lady. Who cares?
I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know
I've seen bands split up for five years and do nothing. That sounds great to me, but it just hasn't worked out that way.
I really dislike flavoured potato chips, and so I always insist on just potatoes and salt, y'know? But that's not weird.
Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat.
I don't want to copy the people I admire - I'd rather find out what inspired them and try to find my own way through it.
I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.
As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing.
I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs I wrote.
It's an honor that people give a crap about us. We're in a rock band; we're not supposed to be treated with any respect.
I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits.
It's nice to be home - I go to the same old sandwich shop around the corner, I go to the movies, I do what I like to do.
I guess my guitar heroes shifted from people like Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix to people like Johnny Marr or John Squire.
I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.
We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see.
The songwriting process is different on every record because you're never coming from the same place when you're writing.
Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.
When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.
You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.
Did you ever see a one eyed woman cry? You know the saddest thing about the woman, the tears don't come out just one eye.
You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.
If you're a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married.
Jimi Hendrix was the master of live stuff. He was my inspiration to do the yo-yo, everything he did on stage was awesome.
I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.
Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.
Mike is a genius guitar player and keyboard player. I realized that, with this group, I just joined Mike Keneally's band!
Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.
There's different levels of where we do well throughout Europe. Fortunately, for us, it's pretty great all throughout it.
It's hard to answer that from my own perspective because when I'm playing I know where it is coming from and the sources.
The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.