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I was kind of always attracted to red. I used to wear red socks a lot for some crazy reason.
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It's part of our nature. As much as I love, if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.
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When I woke up from that dream, brother, I was like, "Okay, I've got to know what that was, what happened." That was not an average dream. I've had some dreams in my days, but not like that. It was way too vivid. Looking back, the reason that dream makes more sense today than it did then is, we are in a digital world. Back then, it was an analog world. Everything was digital in the dream.
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You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.
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I was going through troubles with my marriage, and I was just trying to focus and center myself. I was already rich and famous. I've got to figure out where I want to go and just get this thing aimed. I wrote this song ["Right Now"] and I kept singing it every day .
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A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train.
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You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show.
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I'm gonna abandon my spirit to them, which is actually what I attempt to do. You work yourself up into that state and you fall in supplication of the demon gods.
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I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
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You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
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The only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel's bottles is the Clash baby!
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Jimmy Page is an excellent producer. Led Zeppelin I and II are classics. As a player he's very good in the studio, but I've never seen him play well live. He's sloppy. He plays like he's got a broken hand and he's two years old. If you put out a good album and play like a two year old, what's the purpose?
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The perfect woman has an IQ of 150, wants to make love until 4 in the morning, then turns into a pizza!
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I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again.
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Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive...
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Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.
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Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
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I've always been very self-motivated.
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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 slapped it together, put an old Gibson PAF in it and painted it up with the stripes...
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Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
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Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.
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The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.
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The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.
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I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year.