Joe Elliott Quotes

For five guys from Sheffield who didn't know shit about anything, being in a band was like winning the lottery. Suddenly you didn't have to beg for a date anymore - they'd come up to you.

Joe Elliott Def Leppard

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• Your band members? Your band members don't want to be tied to a machine. They want to be playing. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • Band
  • Timeless

• You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Seems

• I'm just not somebody who can sit around doing nothing, and all of us in the Foo Fighters have our own things outside of the band. I'm not going to use the cliche that those outlets bring us back fresh and with new ideas, but what I will say is that it keeps us all feeling free - and that creative freedom is a very positive thing.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• 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.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Water
  • Band
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Remember
  • Band
  • Football

• I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Time
  • Happy

• 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.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Think
  • Support
  • Band

• The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when you take Steve Marriott out, it's a very different band.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Different
  • Small
  • Band

• 'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Want

• If you don't know one thing about Kid Rock it's that he's loyal. His band has been together for a long time, he stands by his friends, and the guy still lives in his home state of Michigan.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• I remember at one point, with a previous release of mine, I stumbled upon a shareware site, and the total number of downloads was in the thousands, maybe the hundreds of thousands. But there's no doubt that the Internet and that kind of sharing has been a huge benefit for the band.

  

  Washed Out
  • Remember
  • Band
  • Doubt

• The idea of a band nowadays is 5 pretty boys, one with a tattoo, one with a shaved head, and on and on. What the fuck is that? I mean, I like Britney Spears, I think she's pretty, but I'm not from the Mickey Mouse Club-I'm from the Godzilla Club!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Band

• I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People
  • Band
  • Poetry

• We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Music
  • Band
  • Rock

• But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Band

• I'd say we do reach somewhat of a younger audience, but I think for the most part that younger audience is picking our music up from a brother or sister or even parent, who is turning them onto the band.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Up
  • Music
  • Band

• I was homeless for almost a year and a half, just living in my car or bouncing around peoples' houses, going to 7-Eleven at the end of the day and asking them for the taquitos that they were going to throw out because I hadn't eaten in two days.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Car
  • Homeless

• I missed the boat when I was doing Late Night.

  

  Chris Elliott
  • Night
  • Boat

• Every year since we got started, I think that it's going to get harder to top it, but with all the support, somehow things keep getting better. That must mean we are doing something right, so we're just going to try to keep doing what we're doing.

  

  Cole Swindell
  • Support

• Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Different
  • You
  • Fame

• For five guys from Sheffield who didn't know shit about anything, being in a band was like winning the lottery. Suddenly you didn't have to beg for a date anymore - they'd come up to you.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Band
  • Date
  • Lottery