Joe Elliott Quotes

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• We just wanted to put a smile on people's faces. That's all we ever wanted to do.
• To be honest, I'm a bit of a snob now; give me a Four Seasons anywhere in the world and I'm happy. Also, they've just…
• We used to have our own plane with the band's name on the side. It was a dream come true. You drive to a local…
• With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and…
• When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key…
• Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.
• That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with…
• The Vatican takes your breath away.
• Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.
• The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.
• I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.
• There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.
• I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of…
• I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.
• Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat.…
• In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.
• The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.
• I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.
• Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought…
• If you don't physically age gracefully, it's a bit sad. I think Steven Tyler can get away anything, because he still looks like he did…

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