John Popper

You always think the new record is your best.

— John Popper

We used to jam forever. We'd play one song for three hours, easy.

— John Popper

H.O.R.D.E. is all about live music.

— John Popper

Ultimately, musicians make their money in live concerts.

— John Popper

It sucks when people hear rumors that you're dead.

— John Popper

The way we got our audience was very organic.

— John Popper

The Spin Doctors' success kinda kicked a few doors open for us.

— John Popper

I do believe that an armed society is a polite society.

— John Popper

I can't live the way I used to. It will be really cool if some day I could eat a hot fudge…

— John Popper

You know, technology caught up with precisely what was wrong with the way that I used food.

— John Popper

I wanted to be a comedian, but I wasn't funny enough to do it every night.

— John Popper

Usually a song is supposed to be between three and four minutes; twenty minutes is a little bit long.

— John Popper

We're all in a social contract. Whether we like it or not, we live in each others' good graces.

— John Popper

There's a certain kind of confidence that comes with being older that you can't fake when you're young.

— John Popper

Blues Traveler has a very heavy bottom and that's what makes us have such power.

— John Popper

I'm just funny enough as a comedian to know I'm not good enough to be a comedian.

— John Popper

If you look at the broadsword, you had to be really mad at the guy you were running across the battlefield at,…

— John Popper

If you're going to be creative, you ultimately have to be in different ways because if you're going to be in the…

— John Popper

A three-hour show is like a whole different experience. It's like the full game. You warm it up in the first half…

— John Popper

Yeah, some people said I tried to rip off Cat Stevens and Stevie Wonder. Oh, well. I've always admired those guys. But…

— John Popper

We let people tape our shows and share those tapes because we felt our live performances were for the people. We took…

— John Popper

Some day we'll be a 35-year-old band, and then we'll be a 40-year-old band - I daresay that we will be a…

— John Popper

I'd felt these chest pains for a year, but I usually could concentrate my way out of them or sit a little…

— John Popper

I remember opening for the Neville Brothers when we were in our 20s. Art Neville played only a cowbell. We were amazed…

— John Popper

I was a bleeding-heart liberal, until I got a job.

— John Popper

I try to be eccentric, but I'm cognizant of my responsibility.

— John Popper

A lot has changed in music since I began playing in 1987.

— John Popper

I think comedy is the hardest art form there is.

— John Popper

It's your right to own a gun. It's a privilege to own a car.

— John Popper

There's nothing like the fear of death to get you motivated.

— John Popper

Coasting to the bottom is the only disgrace.

— John Popper

I basically have enough time and patience in my life to do Blues Traveler and one other thing.

— John Popper

Working with Secondhand Serenade, I just felt like a songwriter, you know, working with another songwriter.

— John Popper

There are plenty of very different sounding bands that could be H.O.R.D.E. bands.

— John Popper

I'm not glamorous, I don't know how to look cool, and I don't have any angst.

— John Popper

I never considered myself a Deadhead, though I always liked the Dead.

— John Popper

I never learned the subtle art of flirtation, so women tend to think I'm not interested when I'm actually desperately interested.

— John Popper

I knew that my life needed a change, but I must admit there's nothing like a good brush with death.

— John Popper

I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live' and those comedians - that's really even what got me into music was The Blues…

— John Popper

We don't sound like a Mississippi Delta band, but we play what we mean, and that's the spirit of the blues.

— John Popper