When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

When something is not good, it's bad. Period

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.

Don't back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for yourself builds self confidence and self esteem.

All my singles went platinum-plus.All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.

I love threats. They make great quotes. Is that recorder working, Irene?

I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.

I do not separate France from Europe.

I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.

Obama was gonna get everything he wanted in the first year because, if anybody opposed it, they were gonna be accused of being a racist, or bigot, or who knows what.

I like music when it makes you feel.