I always play so many different styles that I don't think anything I do surprises anyone. — John 5 Copy Share Image
There's not many crazy guitar instrumentalists out there that put on a crazy monster show. — John 5 Copy Share Image
I get starstruck... I don't know, because a lot of my heroes are my really good friends. — John 5 Friends Copy Share Image
Being the founding member of Loser, my decision to leave was not an easy one. — John 5 Being Copy Share Image
Inspiration is one of my favorite things. That's all I want to do - I want to inspire people. — John 5 Copy Share Image
In my eyes, and in my opinion, the guitar is strong and powerful and will never die. — John 5 Eyes Copy Share Image
If you go out to dinner with a group of people, pay for the dinner at a nice restaurant, for the amount… — John 5 Life Copy Share Image
I would hear Steely Dan on the radio all the time, and I listened to 'Aja' a lot. I mean, 'Black Cow'… — John 5 Blues Copy Share Image
I always look for inspiration. If I find something that's inspiring, I'm so excited because it is very hard to find something… — John 5 Copy Share Image
I started at such a young age learning every style of music, the country and the bluegrass and the western swing and… — John 5 Age Copy Share Image
Personally, I like records that are very varied in sound. Not just like, 'Oh, here's 12 super heavy tracks,' and they're all… — John 5 Copy Share Image
When I came to California, I came from such an upper scale neighborhood, I was so sheltered, but I always knew I… — John 5 Copy Share Image
I'm still obsessed with Kiss. I'm still obsessed with Van Halen. I guess we don't change that much from being kids. Either… — John 5 Change Copy Share Image
I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or… — John 5 Copy Share Image
It's funny, the power of music. I was watching 'Dracula,' the 1931 version with Bela Lugosi, and the only music you hear… — John 5 Beginning Copy Share Image
I think there are so, so, so, so many things you have to be... to do this... you know, to keep going… — John 5 Business Copy Share Image
I love to learn, and I started doing a lot of studying of Spanish-style music and really started getting into it and… — John 5 Education Copy Share Image
I remember this vividly: It was 1977, and I was in Sears with my mom. And I saw this display, and it… — John 5 Gun Copy Share Image
I would definitely say Zombie has been the best time I've ever had. It is just so great and so fun because,… — John 5 Copy Share Image
If my mom said, 'You better not do this!' I'm not one of those people who go, 'Well, I'm definitely going to… — John 5 Copy Share Image
People don't buy music anymore; they're stealing it. But you can't steal a live show. There's no way to reproduce a real… — John 5 Copy Share Image
I like people writing great songs on guitar or piano or what have you. I miss people getting on stage with real… — John 5 Bands Copy Share Image
I love Jimmy Bryant, and I love Albert Lee. Roy Clark. Chet Atkins. I love those pickers. — John 5 Copy Share Image
I know it sounds corny, but I think the meaning of life is to do what you love and be happy. — John 5 Do what you love Copy Share Image
Slayer just goes from generation to generation to generation, because it's just so great. — John 5 Copy Share Image
I'm so honored that I got the best guitarist award for the fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods awards. — John 5 Copy Share Image
I am from Michigan; I am from Grosse Pointe. I was upper class growing up there. — John 5 Class Copy Share Image
I think I'm always writing, and I'm always working, and I'm always trying to be creative. It's just something that I do… — John 5 Guitar Copy Share Image
I liked what any other kid did back in the day. You know, Bob Seger, Alice Cooper, and everything else that was… — John 5 Day Copy Share Image
A lot of bands, they take a lot of planning to do a live record. They have to hire a crew, and… — John 5 Copy Share Image
I was such a big Kiss and Van Halen fan, Yngwie Malmsteen, Racer X... all that stuff. I loved everybody. — John 5 Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a guitar player and musician so badly, and I prayed to get this the very few times I… — John 5 Church Copy Share Image
