Joe Perry Quotes

I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America so granted, it is part of our heritage and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.

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.

Take life on life's terms - one day at a time. And have fun while you're doing it.

Get good live and get a following because that's what people notice.

I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back.

I don't see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid.

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.

Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive.

You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.

My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express myself artistically.

I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

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.

Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.

A lot of people don't listen to the albums. They just listen to the singles.

It's probably listening to country music that got me to start playing a lot cleaner, not as distorted.

The really pop country stuff can sound a little bland because they put in strings and horns and all of that.

There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen.

I never envisioned what I was doing as part of a career.

The '70's came and went already

I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.

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.

I think one of the most valuable things Aerosmith has is the energy we produce when we all play together.

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.

You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.

I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.

You don't throw clothes away, because you know it's going to come back in fashion!

I don't need to speak...I play the guitar!

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.

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.

I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.

For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.

There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.

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.

I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.

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.