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I'm not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can't do that, you know. It's too much to handle.
I'd say it ["I Can't Drive 55"] has probably been the most successful song I've ever been involved with, including any Van Halen songs.
If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.
There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.
We thought of ourselves as musical terrorists at shows - were weren't biting heads off bats, but we wanted to annoy and confront people.
I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free!
I think there's something about having a purpose in life and a sense of belonging that is more important than money for any human being.
You can never criticize a monumental musician like Jon Lord or Richie Blackmore, or the part they played in the group, but life goes on.
Rock music had its own constituency, its own steering wheel. It was beyond the control of the establishment, and we saw TV as the enemy.
A lot changed the moment I had kids; I had no idea of the perspective it would give me. It made making the right decisions a lot easier.
I once had a dream about getting a marriage, house in the country, and at the end of the day we'd retire, but I'm never going to retire.
Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.
Most of the people that I learned and experienced jazz with have been with foreign white people, mostly from France. Excluding my family.
I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.
I realised that if I wanted to carry on with my musical dreams, I had to change, so I started meditating, and I changed my life entirely.
It wasn't slung together by a producer and a publisher. We decided we were going to take hold of our music and let it evolve organically.
(As a boy) I was listening to Sonny Boy Williamson's (I) records and I would close my eyes and I could visualize myself playing the harp.
I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style.
I don't read the Bible. Not because I don't want to, I just haven't got around to It yet. One day perhaps I'll pick it up and look at It.
We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.
You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
Fashion is one of the most beautiful forms of art we have. It's a form of art that every person gets to possess and create for themselves.
I exercise all the time, every morning, and then I do music in the afternoon. I walk two to three miles a day and do Pilates twice a week.
I grew up on, and kind of came of age, during the grunge movement and was introduced to Neil Young and Bob Dylan and grew up on that path.
If I go away What would still remain of me? The ghost within your eyes? The whisper in your sighs? You see...Believe And I'm always there.
I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.
Every so often in the last 20 years, Hollywood has called. And every time they've called, we've answered? because they have lots of money.
Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!
I have a night off on Halloween. It's Halloween for me every night. Let everybody else be Ozzy for the night. People go out dressed as me.
When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now."
I don't think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it's definitely something that people have picked up on a lot
I don't think we were anti-commercial. But we were anti-contrivance, and like Zeppelin, we found dignity through the music we were playing.
As long as I could sing my songs, I wasn't as angry about what had happened, about being shoved back for this or shoved back for the other.
Sometimes we'd just play acoustic guitar and try out the parts and make a library. We'd use a double cassette player and make little edits.
It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.
Karl Johnson, my first piano player at Milt Trenier's, he just swung really hard and gave me a sense of really belonging to the jazz scene.
We just dig Southern rock 'n' roll. It hasn't been represented well at all. So, we want to see the people in the South get their music out.
Inviting audiences to open up and hear things differently is an important part of what I do. But I still love to sing songs with words, too.
The band's a really close-knit family. We've got fantastically good friendships and relationships that have developed after all these years.
I feel like I've paid a really heavy cost, a really heavy physical health cost, for the years of touring and how physical I've been onstage.
We want to encourage people. You are not just another kid in the youth group or the lady on the third row. God has a purpose for every life.
I see the Ricky Martin thing, and everything is like, just packaged for this moment. Where are they going to be 10 years, 20 years from now?
We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.
I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
Every time you go in and make a record it is like a calling card, not so people can come and hear you live or are interested in your catalog.
Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything.
I decided to sing again after settling in Newark in 1982. I had a burning desire to sing and lots of encouragement from my new wife, Earlene.
Elijah Wood from Lord Of The Rings can't get married with a girl named Holly beacause it would make Holly Wood get it HOLLYWOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are just here, right? We are just people doing our thing. And the most important aspect of anything we do is our motivation, why we do it.