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I've never had a plan - it was just to try and get with the people you like to play with, and try to do the best you can.
They were recorded without processed cheese. Listen to old '50s records. The style may be dated, but the recording isn't.
I just wanted to write about stuff that was happening in real life, and that's not just love songs about your girlfriend.
People often say very, very nice, complimentary things. But I think it's better if you don't take that too much to heart.
I just couldn't keep on trying to please people. It was hindering my creative output, and I had to be honest with myself.
I'm a Chicago Cubs fan. I grew up in Libertyville, Illinois, and attended my first game at Wrigley Field when I was four.
I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.
I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.
I knew if I wanted to improvise over chord changes, I'd have to figure out all the scales that went with all those chords.
I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.
If I heard a noise at night, I'd think there was a burglar sneaking around; the first thing I'd do was check on my guitar.
We've made a lot of party music; we're definitely not Thom Yorke. But there's also depth to our records; we get emotional.
Wave the flag, wave the Bible, wave your sex or your business degree, whatever you want, just don't wave that thing at me.
I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.
It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.
Had I been pushed like Colonel Parker pushed Elvis, had I been a white boy like Elvis, sure, it would have been different.
I surfed Dana Point, San Clemente, and of course Huntington Beach. Every morning, you could find me at the hot water pipe.
You shouldn't hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the drums... You only notice the guitar when it's not there.
I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?
As teenagers, we used to listen to entire Rush albums, entire Pink Floyd albums and shut down the lights and it was great.
I used to drive myself about in an old Austin van... and then have to sleep in the back because I couldn't afford a hotel.
The first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful.
To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.
I think that everybody kind of changes a lot between the time they're seventeen and when they're twenty-one or twenty-two.
Our music is harder to play than it sounds. It's the small details you don't realize are there until you try and re-do it.
I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.
I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.
I voted for President Bush. I voted for President Clinton and although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.
In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.
You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.
Can't break free from the things that you do. I wanna walk, but I run back to you, that's why I hate myself for loving you.
You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died
When Mahavishnu came out in '71, the unbelievable reaction to the band was a real shock to me. It was a shock to everybody.
We have a storage close by where I live, that's very organised. My guitar tech, Matty organised it all, labeled everything.
Some composers end up writing for the guitar as they would write piano music or, more often, harp music. It isn't the same.
John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn’t use any of the clichés; he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator.
There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.
You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money.
When you're making a record, you try to achieve stylistically what fits on you. Like a good old coat, you know what I mean?
The Ramones were American, and I knew about them, and I thought they were interesting. But they were like a pop band to me.
I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.
I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.
It's hard when people are expecting things from you, and all you're trying to do is write songs that you like for yourself.
In some states, the population is pretty low and if 5,000 kids vote, they could completely change the political atmosphere.
I wanted to learn how to play guitar so I could smash it up and burn it. I was only a little kid, so that was my incentive.
We want to give kids something to hope for. If one kid says, "Your cd helped get me through this year," that's all it takes.
Maryland is such a special place, man... You miss that warm, friendly love. It ain't like that everywhere else in the world.
A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.
For me, there is a strong hypnotic power in noise-music, and that's something I don't want to leave out of my music anymore.