Gary Cherone Quotes

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• I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
• My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.
• If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
• I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.
• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
• I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.
• I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.
• I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
• I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made…
• If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
• In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide.…
• Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.
• It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.
• We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.
• The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
• You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
• When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie…
• There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
• Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is…
• Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.

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