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The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind
No matter how much you've worked so hard to be as successful as you are, there will always be those ignorant haters who don't understand.
If you truly love someone, don't waste your time finding reasons to hate them. Spend it remembering why you love them in the first place.
Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and roll?
I personally am into the minstrel technique - if I hear someone playing a lute or playing a crumhorn, it just moves me. I don't know why.
I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.
I would say the more the better when it is comes to development and marketing. It's actually fun. For some it can be a frustrating thing.
Since I'm in a band, and I'm not usually in situations where I need to read, it doesn't come up as often, and I don't rely on it as much.
Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.
I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.
I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.
True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse
There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.
If there were 3,000 people in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the musical education would be so much better than this little elite thing.
I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.
Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.
When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.
I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.
It falls in all the cracks, from classical music to jazz,. Anywhere there's a hole in the floor, my music falls through it. But that's OK.
Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.
When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.
You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.
I suppose I am proud of what has gone on, after all I only ever wanted to play the guitar for a living, and that is what I am still doing.
All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am.
Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. The words come out hard, like bullets.
My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.
You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.
Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.
When you open box after box of old comics and they're ALL "Archie," you have suffered a trauma from which it is difficult to ever recover.
The only thing I had in my mind [when I was 17 ] was that I was going to be a professional musician. So it was just the right environment.
I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.
It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that.
.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive
Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to.
I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky.
When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.
I think the audiences abroad are older and come from a more mature society. They have a different understanding of whats happening as art.
I think what defines our band is really that, you know, we're just living our dream and making records that we love and having a good time.
Sun's up, uh huh, looks okay - the world survives into another day, and I'm thinking about eternity. Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me.
Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.
I never took a lesson until I was 20, and I'm glad I had those years living the life of a normal person. I don't consider that time wasted.
I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.
I'm really happy doing what I'm doing. I'm not looking to do anything else. I love what I do. I love music. I love playing. I love touring.
Everyone can lock into the rhythm on a tune. It's organic in nature. It connects the band as a whole and connects the band to the audience.
Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.
If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.
I didn't want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light - the remaining Ramones.
Seeing my children in the morning as they come down from their bedrooms makes my heart come alive. There's just no better moment in my day.
If we're lucky we realize that life is really about family - your children, your family and your friends. Without that, the rest is hollow.