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Whatever you fill your brain with and whoever you spend your time with... will determine your life a decade from now.
I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times... I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.
In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.
I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.
Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.
I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.
Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.
I'm very much a relationship guy. I like to bounce ideas off the person that I love. I like having a real connection.
I think it’s important to make all women feel like they’re princesses, because every girl is a princess. I’m serious.
Music is the universal language no matter the country we are born in or the color of our skin. Bring us all together.
I'm ingrained in a lot of - almost too many - causes and struggles around the world because that's where I come from.
I am a huge sports fan. I grew up playing sports and I'm a huge [Arkansas] Razorbacks fan, but any sports personally.
I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.
Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.
I wouldn't wear a tie-dyed tee-shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia.
'Europe '72' came out right around the time that I started going to see the Dead, and it had a huge impression on me.
I respect the Stones but their songs are a pile of crap. As for U2, they don’t say a lot or seem like normal persons.
I don't read music. I've never had a lesson. I don't know anything about music other than what my inner knowledge is.
I'm ready to fight, I've been looking for my baby all night. If I get her in my sight, boom, boom, out go the lights.
To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.
There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.
I'm not a human interest story, man. I'm just a musician trying to make some small records and be happy, be peaceful.
I love to play the songs that got me to where I am. I like to take a little bit from all of my records and mix it up.
Happy Day After Christmas, Merry Rest of the Year, even when Christmas is over, The Light of the World is Still Here!
When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was is so wrong.
Progressive metal is one of the hardest styles of music to pull off live, especially while providing a tasteful show.
I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.
I don't find it easy dealing with people with drug problems. It helps if you're all taking drugs, all the same drugs.
You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.
I actually have heard of acts who only do their new album, and don't do their hits. I've never been in that mind set.
You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.
If you have a tone like mine that is recognizable. No matter what I play, when you hear my tone you can tell it's me.
Music is one of those art forms that you can get pretty immediate feedback by just doing it and getting better at it.
I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.
I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.
Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.
It's funny, but I always feel really safe on the streets of London. It's the most inspiring place to be in the world.
Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.
I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.
You know all of my fears. There's nothing your eyes can't see. When I tried to give up Lord, you never gave up on me.
The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.
Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.
I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.
I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.
When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.
I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.