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- To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
- Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them
- Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just…
- Most beginners want to learn lead because they think it's cool .. consequently, they never really develop good rhythm skills .. since most of a…
- I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a neck for $80.00…
- I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack, so I built…
- ... I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake at the top…
- If your going to learn to play lead guitar, get an electric guitar .. it doesn't have to be an expensive one .. acoustic guitars…
- Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.…
- It's Always about the music, never about anything else
- We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's…
- It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I…
- If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But…
- Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens…
- It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean…
- We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
- If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
- I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager.…
- Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
- I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
- I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
- David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in…
- I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll…
- I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in…
- I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive…
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