Cheap Trick Quotes
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Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it's really very simple. You're the artist. It's your picture that's going on the CD cover, nobody else's. Protect yourself. Get a good lawyer. You'll kick yourself later if you don't.
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I'm a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects. Solely as an accommodation to some of the band members, I reluctantly agreed to take a temporary hiatus from touring.
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I actually did my research and tried to get kind of like a working visa for Australia. It always seemed like it was a land of opportunities. The same size as the United States with one-tenth of the population.
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I'm still involved in the business of Cheap Trick, so I keep my eye on that kind of stuff.
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The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not.
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I don't miss going to airports and hanging out in hotel rooms.
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In April of 1976, Epic Records was flying out to sign us when I tripped over a light case after a gig and broke my arm. We called the next morning and said, 'Don't go to the airport - Bun E. broke his arm.' They thought Mercury or someone was trying to sign us, so they offered us, like, $25,000 more on top of the deal.
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If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.
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You just can't walk into a venue, sit behind your drums, and expect to play a great show. It'll never happen.
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Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.
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We were offered 100 'Sgt. Pepper' shows in Las Vegas with a huge back-end.
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The last thing you want to do is play a long gig on a hot night, pass out, and wind up in a hospital emergency room.
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I play every day. I had a bad back, but they fixed it.
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I practice every day and that kind of stuff to maintain my musicianship.
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I don't like doing 25 songs. I think that just kills the audience. I think the show should be 17, 18, 19 songs and encores.
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The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.
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I think Badfinger was the epitome of that type of music before the power pop term was coined. 'No Matter What" is always gonna be a great song on the radio. There?s probably two or three others off their records that are as cool like 'Day After Day'.
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I'm in a band. I have the basic idea, but when you surround yourself with really good players, why would I tell anyone what to play, because they're that good. They don't tell me what to play. They might encourage me, so that's what I do. I encourage them.
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When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.
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Every person I've ever met always thinks their parents are weird.
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I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you. After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it.
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I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time.
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I'm a reactor. I can react to crowds, performing situations.
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I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.