Rick Nielsen famous quotes

03-28-2025

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.
-- Rick Nielsen

#Player #Thinking #Guitar
I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.
-- Rick Nielsen

#Opportunity #Guitar #Equal
When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.
-- Rick Nielsen

#Attitude #Interviews
Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.
-- Rick Nielsen

#Thinking #Play #Metallica
I'm a reactor. I can react to crowds, performing situations.
-- Rick Nielsen

#Crowds #Performing #Situation
Madison Square Garden sounds like crap.
-- Rick Nielsen

#Garden #Squares #Sound
I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.
-- Rick Nielsen

#Husband #Kids #Wife
I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.
-- Rick Nielsen

#Men #Family Man
Surrender, but donâ€™t give yourself away
-- Rick Nielsen

#Giving #Surrender
If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.
-- Rick Nielsen

#Members #Tall #Ifs
Everything works if you let it
-- Rick Nielsen

#Ifs
If I weren't in the band, I would be a fan.
-- Rick Nielsen

#Fans #Would Be #Band
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.
-- Rick Nielsen

#Player #Ideas #Band
Every person I've ever met always thinks their parents are weird.
-- Rick Nielsen

#Thinking #Parent #Mets
I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs I wrote.
-- Rick Nielsen

#Song #Bridges #Impressed
When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.
-- Rick Nielsen

#Growing Up #Parent #Trying
The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.
-- Rick Nielsen

#Parent #Trying #Worst
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.
-- Rick Nielsen

#Opportunity #Australia #Land
Surrender, but don’t give yourself away.
-- Rick Nielsen

#Giving #Surrender

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