Quotes by John 5 - Page 2

I'm a Telecaster connoisseur, and I love my Teles. I have one from almost every year since the very beginning, in 1950. I'm so obsessed with them.
John 5 /
Connoisseur
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I love instrumental guitar records, but I also understand that, as a listener, it can be difficult to get through a whole album of just that one thing.
John 5 /
Instrumental
Listener
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I wanted to be a guitar player and musician so badly, and I prayed to get this the very few times I went to church, and I feel like I got my prayer answered.
John 5 /
Church
Guitar
Guitar Player
Musician
Answered
Badly
Prayed
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Oh my God, Guns N' Roses - it's like, jeez, that's what made me move out to Los Angeles. 'Welcome to the Jungle,' you know - it's been a huge inspiration for me.
John 5 /
Huge
Inspiration
Jungle
Los Angeles
Welcome
Angeles
Oh
Guns
Los
Move
Oh My God
Roses
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I think I'm always writing, and I'm always working, and I'm always trying to be creative. It's just something that I do all the time. I watch TV, and I'll play guitar.
John 5 /
Time Guitar Always
Just Something
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Jimi Hendrix is one of the main influences on why I wanted to play guitar. He really shook me. I think it was his whole style - the look and what he did with the guitar.
John 5 /
Hendrix
Guitar Look Me
Influences
Main
Shook
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When I came to California, I came from such an upper scale neighborhood, I was so sheltered, but I always knew I wanted to live in California, and I wanted to play guitar.
John 5 /
California
Neighborhood
Scale
Sheltered
Upper
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I never wished to be a 'rock star.' I just wanted to be a working musician. My dreams didn't even go past a session player or a working musician. It was too far beyond my dreams.
John 5 /
Musician
Player
Rock Star
Session
Wanted
Beyond
Star
Working
Far
Rock
Wished
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I'm still obsessed with Kiss. I'm still obsessed with Van Halen. I guess we don't change that much from being kids. Either we don't change that much, or we just have really good taste.
John 5 /
Good Taste
Obsessed
Taste
Van Halen
Guess
Halen
Van
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I've been doing instrumental records now for a long time and built up this little fan base, which is worldwide, and it's incredible how big it's gotten. People really enjoy these records.
John 5 /
Enjoy
Long Time
Records
Time Long People
Base
Fan
Fan Base
Gotten
Instrumental
Worldwide
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A lot of bands, they take a lot of planning to do a live record. They have to hire a crew, and they have to have a recording truck and all this equipment, and they record every single show.
John 5 /
Crew
Equipment
Planning
Single
Truck
Bands
Hire
Record
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Chet Atkins, I love his singer style and the country thing that he did. He really had a huge impact in my life, just his style - western swing and the country thing he did - it really changed my life.
John 5 /
Changed
Impact
Western
Life Love My Life
Singer
Huge Impact
Swing
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I would hear Steely Dan on the radio all the time, and I listened to 'Aja' a lot. I mean, 'Black Cow' and 'Aja' and 'Deacon Blues' and 'Josie' and 'Peg'... all these songs are on one record. It's crazy!
John 5 /
Black
Mean
Peg
Radio
Blues
Cow
Dan
Deacon
Hear
Record
Listened
Steely
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I liked what any other kid did back in the day. You know, Bob Seger, Alice Cooper, and everything else that was on the radio in Michigan. There was a lot of Steely Dan; just a lot of great music inspired me.
John 5 /
Bob
Great Music
Inspired
Michigan
Radio
Great Music Me
Alice
Alice Cooper
Music Great Me
Cooper
Dan
Liked
Everything Else
Steely
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If you go out to dinner with a group of people, pay for the dinner at a nice restaurant, for the amount of money for that dinner, you can get a John 5 Squier Telecaster and have it for the rest of your life.
John 5 /
Amount
Dinner
Pay
Life Money Your
Rest
Group
John
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You can go pretty much anywhere in the world, and people know 'Beat It.' When I was growing up, you heard it everywhere. I remember being a kid and going to school dances and stuff, and they always played it.
John 5 /
Always World Remember
Dances
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I'm always up early. I have so much to do, it's unbelievable how much I have to do in a day. So I have to get at 7 o'clock every morning, and I go to bed at midnight. You know, and I'm just going that whole time.
John 5 /
Midnight
Unbelievable
Time Morning Day
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I like people writing great songs on guitar or piano or what have you. I miss people getting on stage with real bands and real instruments and expressing themselves that way instead of with computers and technology.
John 5 /
Computers
Guitar
Instruments
Stage
Bands
Miss
Expressing
Great Songs
Instead
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I remember this vividly: It was 1977, and I was in Sears with my mom. And I saw this display, and it was for 'Love Gun.' I bought the record just because of the look of that display. Because I really loved monsters.
John 5 /
Mom
Display
Gun
Monsters
Bought
Loved
Saw
Record
Just Because
Vividly
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Nothing's changed from when I'm seven years old to now. Nothing's changed at all. I like the same stuff that I did - Kiss, Van Halen, 'Happy Days,' 'Laverne & Shirley,' 'The Brady Bunch,' monsters and all that stuff.
John 5 /
Happy
Brady
Bunch
Changed
Monsters
Seven
Stuff
Van Halen
Years
Now
Did
Same
Days
Old
Halen
Happy Days
Shirley
Van
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People don't buy music anymore; they're stealing it. But you can't steal a live show. There's no way to reproduce a real live show. So I think that when you put a great bill together, that people will come out for it.
John 5 /
Great Music Together
Anymore
Bill
Buy
Music Great Together
Reproduce
Steal
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When I was touring with Ozzy, you know, when I was with Manson, we toured with Ozzy, so many times, we did Ozzfest a thousand times, and, you know, it seems like I'm always playing with Ozzy in one way or another opening up.
John 5 /
Manson
Opening
Seems
Thousand
Ozzy
Times
Way Always Know
Thousand Times
Toured
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How it's been with me, it doesn't really matter what kind of music it is as long as it's good and catchy and I enjoy it. That's why I know all these different styles of music, just because it's fun. Whatever is good, I like it.
John 5 /
Catchy
Different Styles
Good Music Me
Good Music Long
Styles
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I truly enjoyed my time with Manson and have the greatest respect for the incredible fans. I am grateful to have contributed over two dozen songs to his projects. It was a great creative outlet for me at that point in my career.
John 5 /
Respect
Creative
Dozen
Enjoyed
Fans
Grateful
Manson
My Time
Projects
Time Great I Am
Time Respect Great
Greatest
Career
Creative Outlet
Incredible
Outlet
Point
Truly
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Ever since I was a kid, I've been a Fender connoisseur. And to have my name associated with greatness like that, it's amazing. I couldn't be more proud of anything. My children, and then being associated with Fender. In that order!
John 5 /
Connoisseur
Greatness
Proud
Associated
Fender
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What I do is, I look at rock guitar players, and I say to myself, 'What is this guy doing? What does he have that can inspire me?' I try to see what other people are doing and take what they have and turn it and twist it into my own thing.
John 5 /
Guy
Inspire
My Own
Guitar Players
Rock
Twist
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I, like, prayed inside of my head as a little kid. I didn't grow up in a religious home, but we went to Midnight Mass. That was the only time I'd go to church, but when I did, I prayed that I wanted to be a successful musician. I got my wish.
John 5 /
Church
Little Kid
Mass
Midnight
Musician
Only Time
Religious
Successful
Wish
Inside
Grow Up
Head
Prayed
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I really truly love all styles of music. A lot of people say that, but the first station they turn to when they get in the car is a rock station. I don't always do that. I really enjoy everything. But, of course, I'm a rock shred guitar player first.
John 5 /
Guitar
Guitar Player
Love Car Music
People Say
Shred
Styles
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I remember where I was when I heard Yngwie Malmsteen for the first time. It was such an epiphany for me, and it really shaped the way I play today. I think I heard him in '83, if I'm not mistaken - I was 13 years old - and it really was amazing for me.
John 5 /
Epiphany
First Time
Mistaken
Shaped
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I think there are so, so, so, so many things you have to be... to do this... you know, to keep going in the music business. Of course, you have to play well with others, you know, and you have to be smart with business and be good at your craft and be healthy.
John 5 /
Healthy
Music Business
Smart
Good Business Music
Craft
Business Good Music
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It's funny, the power of music. I was watching 'Dracula,' the 1931 version with Bela Lugosi, and the only music you hear is at the very beginning of the credits. There's not one other piece of music; it's all silent. It's unbelievable, and it's very effective, too.
John 5 /
Silent
Unbelievable
Version
Credits
Dracula
Effective
Piece
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I like streaming music. I'll be in the car going, 'I want to hear Scotty Anderson.' He's a great guitar player not many people know about - maybe me and two other dudes know him. But I love him, and I can pull him up on Apple Music, and there it is, right there in my car.
John 5 /
Car
Guitar Player
Player
Scotty
Streaming
Love Great Music
Anderson
Apple
Love Car Music
Dudes
Hear
Maybe
Pull
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I love doing it. It's great. I love doing the sessions, 'cause you're kind of like in a different band every day. I used to do them all the time. I think my first one was John Wetton from U.K. and Asia and all that stuff, King Crimson. It was so great. Really a lot of fun.
John 5 /
Asia
Band
Crimson
Fun
Stuff
Used
Love Time Great
Cause
Every Day
First One
John
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I would definitely say Zombie has been the best time I've ever had. It is just so great and so fun because, you know, we all get along so well, and, you know, it's just like, everybody, we're just all friends here, and we're just having a really, really, really great time.
John 5 /
Zombie
Time Best Great
Best Time
Best Time Great
Great Time
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You know how kids will wait outside after a gig and try to get an autograph from the band? I would do that, but when I found the guitar player, I would say, 'What advice can you give me?' And a lot of my heroes would say, 'Have your own style.' I always kept that in my head.
John 5 /
Advice
Band
Found
Give Me
Guitar
Guitar Player
Player
Lot
Heroes
After
Try
Autograph
Own
Say
Gig
Wait
Head
Outside
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When I was younger, I had a horrible flight. Horrible. It was well before I was 10 years old. So I always thought to myself, 'I know I don't want to travel.' That's why I wanted to be a session guy, because I knew I could still play guitar and make a living at it - hopefully.
John 5 /
Travel
Flight
Guitar
Hopefully
Session
Myself Always Guitar
Younger
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Inspiration is a really hard thing to describe, but it's something that triggers your brain, like the first time I heard a certain guitar player that I loved or the first time that I saw a monster or the first time that I saw anything that really was an epiphany for me. It just stays with you your whole life.
John 5 /
Brain
Certain
Epiphany
First Time
Guitar
Guitar Player
Heard
Inspiration
Player
Triggers
Loved
Describe
Saw
Hard Thing
Monster
Stays
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I love to learn, and I started doing a lot of studying of Spanish-style music and really started getting into it and how it is just a completely different form of guitar playing. It is just like if you started speaking in a different language like Japanese or something. It is something that you have to study and work at a lot.
John 5 /
Guitar Playing
Love Work Music
Different Language
Japanese
Studying
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