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I realized that the only purpose to revolution is to be able to love who you want, how you want, when you want and where you want.
I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.
I screw up on the delay settings, so pretty much everything is manually done by me - I don't have those presets like the Edge has.
When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.
When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music itself.
Rush is one of the common denominators in our band as far as a band that everybody loves and grew up with and was a big influence.
I think as a human being, if you can do something to impact someone's life, that's about the greatest accomplishment you can have.
If you give that gal a diamond ring, you'll get a diamond back. She's just a venom wearing denim, boy, she's always making tracks.
To increase speed you must increase the amount of rest, peace, calmness that you can maintain. That is the secret to playing fast.
It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.
I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.
My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?
The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a rock n' roll band.
As hopeful as I am, there are some times in my life when I get to low points. Luckily, I still have music to get me through things.
A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that.
My God! So sad to hear about Amy Winehouse! My deepest condolences to her friends and family and fans. You will be missed Amy xoxox
I'm thrilled I have the opportunity to do the 'Spread' show and have the terrific sponsors that we work with like Nikon or Verizon.
People who have witnessed all the years of me playing, they bring their kids and say, 'I used to see this guy when I was fourteen!'
When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.
Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.
One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.
I did tons of gigs where I didn't move around very much because I couldn't. There's a pole over here and wires and a monitor there.
I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.
It's much better to play the guitar a half hour a day, every day, than not practice for a week and then jam for five hours one day.
The best music you make is relevant to the culture you are in, the timeframe you are in. I want to keep it as relevant as possible.
As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident.
Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.
Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums.
If you want to play something that you can't, you need to see and hear yourself doing it in your minds eye. It will start to happen
I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on everybody.
I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.
Where most people looked forward to the weekend to go out and yie one on, my idea of a good time was to figure out a Scorpions song
I never really paid much attention to music that was going on in the UK. I was always looking towards the States for my inspiration.
That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.
When you sign on and say, 'I'm gonna do this and that,' it's always good to say at the end of it, 'I've done all I said I would do.'
Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.
Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.
Ladies, first and foremost: you're on your own. No more rules neatly laid out for you to follow. You have to make up YOUR OWN rules.
You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.
But I also think that once you've found stuff that works, stop reading forums, stop reading reviews and just get out there and play.
I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease.
One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock 'n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.
Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.
Somehow, Rush can still sell out arenas. If I was sitting in row one, I would take my chair, unbolt it from the ground and run away.
I'm not much of a political person and even if I was, look, Rock 'n' Roll is supposed to be fun and sexy and a little bit dangerous.
I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.
The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.