John Popper

You know, Blues Traveler is its own thing.

— John Popper

I love to start things.

— John Popper

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

— John Popper

I think I would perform anywhere.

— John Popper

Blues Traveler is a democracy.

— John Popper

I like the aesthetic of weaponry.

— John Popper

Coasting to the bottom is the only disgrace.

— John Popper

I learned to play the harmonica from Dan Aykroyd.

— John Popper

MTV is such a commercial blitz that a lot of our fans would not watch it.

— John Popper

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

— John Popper

I'm a total food addict, and I've got to treat it that way.

— John Popper

Rock has its own vocabulary, but you can approach it with freedom.

— John Popper

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

— John Popper

Recording in the studio is always a paring-down for us.

— John Popper

There is no such thing as a failure who keeps trying.

— John Popper

Throughout history, musicians have never counted on intellectual property really getting them rich.

— John Popper

I use the songwriting as medicine to kind of help me summarize how I'm feeling so that I can get past it.

— 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

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

— John Popper

The good bands take people on a journey with them; You look at the Beach Boys and the Beatles and you see…

— John Popper

For those of us who have had the good fortune of a career in music, we feel an obligation to speak out…

— John Popper

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

— 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

I try to play like Jimi Hendrix is playing. Forget what instrument you're playing, forget the colloquialisms, and Just get into what…

— John Popper

The first record i ever bought was the Blues Brothers' 'Briefcase Full of Blues.' I wanted to get into comedy, so I…

— John Popper

I have a lot of problem selling things to our fans. But video and radio is a way to get to fans…

— John Popper

When you're at a concert and you hear someone improvise well, that's special; it puts you in the moment and takes you…

— 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

When we were coming up, a lot of people were like, 'You've gotta lose the other guys.' If I did, I think…

— John Popper

There's a lot of struggling and a lot of activity going on in my playing. Blues Traveler adopted that style. People will…

— John Popper

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

— John Popper

They told me my arteries were 95 percent blocked.

— John Popper

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

— John Popper

Ultimately, musicians make their money in live concerts.

— John Popper

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

— John Popper

I heard a lot of Cat Stevens when I was a kid and, subliminally, I guess it had an effect.

— John Popper

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

— John Popper

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

— John Popper

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

— John Popper

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

— John Popper