John Popper

Never count on a royalty check.

— John Popper

We're great live players.

— John Popper

I was really fat.

— John Popper

I'm a great self-jinxer.

— John Popper

I love to start things.

— John Popper

I think I would perform anywhere.

— John Popper

Blues Traveler is a democracy.

— John Popper

I like the aesthetic of weaponry.

— John Popper

You know, Blues Traveler is its own thing.

— John Popper

I learned to play the harmonica from Dan Aykroyd.

— John Popper

A good producer sees something in you you don't see in yourself.

— John Popper

It occurred to me on a whim that I'd always wanted a harmonica.

— John Popper

Live music is the future of rock n' roll.

— John Popper

I love to just be consistently playing music.

— John Popper

Rock has its own vocabulary, but you can approach it with freedom.

— John Popper

I'm a total food addict, and I've got to treat it that way.

— John Popper

There's a very personal kind of nourishment I get out of playing. It's the thing that I do really well.

— John Popper

Throughout history, musicians have never counted on intellectual property really getting them rich.

— John Popper

I think we've created a middle class in rock & roll and we sort of just keep trudging along and having a ball.

— John Popper

MTV is such a commercial blitz that a lot of our fans would not watch it.

— John Popper

I've met Hillary, she's amazing. But I couldn't agree with her on too many issues.

— John Popper

I fainted in airports twice on different occasions, because I didn't get my food right.

— John Popper

I use the songwriting as medicine to kind of help me summarize how I'm feeling so that I can get past it.

— John Popper

There are some rap acts that could be H.O.R.D.E. bands. The Beastie Boys could do it very easily. Digable Planets could do…

— John Popper

I try to play like Jimi Hendrix is playing. Forget what instrument you're playing, forget the colloquialisms, and Just get into what…

— John Popper

The first record i ever bought was the Blues Brothers' 'Briefcase Full of Blues.' I wanted to get into comedy, so I…

— John Popper

The good bands take people on a journey with them; You look at the Beach Boys and the Beatles and you see…

— John Popper

For those of us who have had the good fortune of a career in music, we feel an obligation to speak out…

— John Popper

You keep telling yourself that some day you'll get a heart attack, and when it actually comes, you realize that you're not…

— John Popper

We need to update laws to ensure that songwriters and artists can practice their art and maintain a career from their renowned…

— John Popper

When you're in the studio, you have to get the bare-bones, crystallized version of the song you've written. That's the blueprint for…

— John Popper

I have a lot of problem selling things to our fans. But video and radio is a way to get to fans…

— John Popper

When you're at a concert and you hear someone improvise well, that's special; it puts you in the moment and takes you…

— John Popper

There is no such thing as a failure who keeps trying.

— John Popper

Recording in the studio is always a paring-down for us.

— John Popper

I play with a very neurotic approach.

— John Popper

I love confronting karma problems all the time.

— John Popper

Before I got into music I was going to be a mercenary.

— John Popper

I need a prison in order to dream of being free.

— John Popper

They told me my arteries were 95 percent blocked.

— John Popper