Vinny Appice famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • A lot of people don't know what I do. In the industry they take credit for work because to some degree it makes them feel worthy or greater. I am not a ghostwriter 'cause it is on the CD covers who wrote and did what but people don't care about anything they can't see. The work gets unnoticed and the credibility goes untouched.

  • I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.

  • There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.

  • The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.

  • Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.

  • In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.

  • Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming and going of the inner life - because this is what it is - is a curse and a blessing. I don't need to explain why it's a curse. A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.

  • More than anything, I realize I've been blessed to make great music.

  • Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

  • Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.