Def Leppard Quotes
-
We have a fining system if anyone's late, a dollar a minute. It all goes into a cup and at the end of the tour we have a party.
-
Any time I can get off is my favorite holiday. I don't pay too much attention to traditional times because we're often working on Christmas and have to celebrate in January. But I love Christmas. The old clichés are true. To watch someone's face when they're opening a present is mind-blowing really.
-
The band is a millionaire. We as individuals aren't.
-
I just really have a problem with people stereotyping in any shape or form. So yeah, I never really wanted to do that. You know I'm married to a black woman and people get surprised when you say that. They expect you to have some big, blonde, busty chick.
-
Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.
-
Some of the demos we do are better than a lot of people's albums.
-
If you want to achieve something, you have to work a little harder and get out of your comfort zone. That is with everything: relationships, the band, music, athletics. All of the above.
-
I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.
-
Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.
-
On the first record we had no experience whatsoever. We went in and relied on energy. Without experience we got our ideas off of other records, which is a mistake.
-
Every night is a joy; you get an hour and a half of all these hits. It's a lot of fun.
-
Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.
-
But it just so happens that when you're in the public eye, everything gets reported.
-
The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.
-
We did spend a great deal of time together while making this album (Pyromania). We spent a month in Ireland during preproduction without anyone or anything except our instruments and our amps. And believe me, a situation like that can really test your friendship. It's even tougher than being on the road where you have plenty of diversions to occupy your time. When you're thrown together in close quarters with only each other to deal with, your really find out what everyone's like. We came through that with flying colours, and that cohesiveness carried over to the recording session as well.
-
Where I live now, in Laguna Hills, CA. It's brilliant, love the weather and going to the beach and all that stuff.
-
Good musicians are often difficult to hang out with; that's the hardest part, finding people you get on with.
-
In our apartment in New York we'd see something out of the corner of our eye but we didn't know what it was, and when we moved we never saw it again.
-
When anything happens to us we always pull together, not only personally but musically. You get on with working and it seems to take your mind off whatever bad things seem to happen.
-
I think fantasies should be kept to oneself, not shared. Or at least choose who I wish to share it with.
-
And more importantly, I wouldnt be the person I am today, I wouldnt be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasnt for the accident.
-
And really, it's my home life that my own personal foundation is based on and not necessarily the life within the band.
-
A lot of people go, "I'm influenced by the Beatles and Zeppelin," and they just sound like a karaoke.
-
It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released upon the masses in 2012.