Nikki Sixx (Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna, Jr.) Quotes
If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
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I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
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As you know, I was a solo singer, something I just got very much used to. Turns out I'm quite enjoying being in a band!
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
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Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.
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For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
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Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.
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What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
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Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash.
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When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!
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I don't play the bass. I'm not in a band. I tried to think of ways I could touch base with the troops and support what we're doing.
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I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.
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I came up in a time when Springsteen, the Stones, Dylan, and the Beatles were still dominant. For every magazine cover with a new band, there were five covers with one of those guys.
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I didn't join a band. I didn't start a band. I got asked to do it. It kinda happened by accident.
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When I joined New Order, I was made to feel equal to everyone else in the band so I didn't feel like an outsider. I was treated equally, I was paid equally, and my opinion was sought after.
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Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
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I'm super supportive of locally grown foods and farmers. Here in L.A., I know all of my farmers markets and go there weekly.
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If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.
