Joe Perry Quotes
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That's what I love about music. It's immediate. There's a connection whether you are playing at Hyde Park or Chicago, and it's been happening since the beginning of time and the troubadours.
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I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.
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The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get.
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Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.
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I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.
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Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.
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I've seen bands split up for five years and do nothing. That sounds great to me, but it just hasn't worked out that way.
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The kids get a vote. That's very important when it comes to raising kids. And always keep the bigger picture in mind.
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A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.
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The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n' roll thing going on.
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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 going to help us figure out where we are going. Especially the way things are manipulated in the press today. You have to sort through so much stuff to figure out what is real and what is not. It gets harder every day.
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'Back In The Saddle' - I never realised what a good riff that was, or at least how much it satisfied me. And when we play it live, it comes across much better than I ever expected it to.
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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 rock n' roll is all about for me.
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I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.
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L.A. was just an inspiring kind of place to be. It felt like going to Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. Everybody's there. Everybody's hanging around. Everybody's talking about music.
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I think one of the most valuable things Aerosmith has is the energy we produce when we all play together.
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India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember - ever since the '60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
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I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic; the spices are so sensuous.
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My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.
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Y'know, I don't like jazz much. I'll put it on once in a while and listen, and I'll appreciate it.
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Take life on life's terms - one day at a time. And have fun while you're doing it.
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Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive.
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I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.
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If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.