Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for. — Joe Perry Hopefully Copy Share Image
I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't. — Joe Perry Mtv Copy Share Image
Y'know, I don't like jazz much. I'll put it on once in a while and listen, and I'll appreciate it. — Joe Perry Appreciate Copy Share Image
I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit. — Joe Perry Admit Copy Share Image
Take life on life's terms - one day at a time. And have fun while you're doing it. — Joe Perry Fun Copy Share Image
I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back. — Joe Perry Feelings Copy Share Image
I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going. — Joe Perry Audience Copy Share Image
I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done. — Joe Perry Age Copy Share Image
The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute… — Joe Perry Across Copy Share Image
My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I… — Joe Perry Able Copy Share Image
The bottom line is fans just want to hear a good song. Some people will look underneath to see who wrote it,… — Joe Perry Because Copy Share Image
There's no doubt arena shows are exciting, but you don't get that up close and personal kind of vibe, and that's what… — Joe Perry About Copy Share Image
When Tom Morello picks up the guitar, I'm sure what he sees is totally different from what I do, but I love… — Joe Perry Different Copy Share Image
When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that's my shot of adrenaline,… — Joe Perry Adrenaline Copy Share Image
L.A. was just an inspiring kind of place to be. It felt like going to Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. Everybody's… — Joe Perry About Copy Share Image
It's easy to put on a Deep Purple record and say, 'That sounds great.' But why? Part of it is individual practice,… — Joe Perry Deep Copy Share Image
I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say,… — Joe Perry Art Copy Share Image
Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we… — Joe Perry Aerosmith Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear somebody cover a song, I don't like to hear it stray too far from the original. I like to… — Joe Perry Band Copy Share Image
Every time I get in front of an audience, I do the best I can. I really don't look at it like,… — Joe Perry About Copy Share Image
Sometimes when a record's done, I'm satisfied and I won't listen back to it for a while 'cause I'm usually pretty tired… — Joe Perry Causes Copy Share Image
It's so important for people to pay attention to history and learn from it, because it's the only thing we've got that's… — Joe Perry Attention Copy Share Image
My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk… — Joe Perry After Copy Share Image
After a while, no matter how much you love any pop song, you're going to get tired of it. That's the way… — Joe Perry After Copy Share Image
Get good live and get a following because that's what people notice. — Joe Perry Following Copy Share Image
I'm turned off by the groupie thing. I'm a romantic; I like finding the right woman, and if it works, it works. — Joe Perry Finding Copy Share Image
Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive. — Joe Perry Aerosmith Copy Share Image
There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me — Joe Perry Enjoy Copy Share Image
You don't throw clothes away, because you know it's going to come back in fashion! — Joe Perry Clothes Copy Share Image
If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it. — Joe Perry Entertaining Copy Share Image
I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up. — Joe Perry Americans Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul. — Joe Perry Diaries Copy Share Image
You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around. — Joe Perry Chords Copy Share Image
“In order to be near us, to hang out with us, it was good to have drugs.” — Joe Perry Drugs Copy Share Image
Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have. — Joe Perry Certain Copy Share Image
