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Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

quote writing a song is actually quite easy writing a good one is very very difficult joe elliott Quotes

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it.

Topics: Manhattan, Beats, Bigs, Stinky, Smelly

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

source: - "Joe Elliott of Def Leppard" by Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2011.

Topics: Country, Rocks, England

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

Topics: Holiday, Parent, Firsts, Best Holiday

We just wanted to put a smile on people's faces. That's all we ever wanted to do.

Topics: People, Faces, Wanted

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

Topics: Song, Writing, Rocks

Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

Topics: Song, Horse, Crazy, Paper Bags, Crazy Horse

If you don't physically age gracefully, it's a bit sad. I think Steven Tyler can get away anything, because he still looks like he did in '73. Especially from row Z backwards in an arena. As long as the Stones keep their hair and don't get fat they'll get away with the wrinkles.

Topics: Thinking, Wrinkles, Hair

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.

source: - "Joe Elliott of Def Leppard". Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2011.

Topics: Writing, Responsibility, Handle

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

source: - "How to travel like a rock star". Interview with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com. January 23, 2008.

Topics: Years, Europe, Cities

There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.

source: - "Joe Elliott of Def Leppard" by Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2011.

Topics: Song, Rocks, Rock Song

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

Topics: Years, Mind Blowing, Three

To be honest, I'm a bit of a snob now; give me a Four Seasons anywhere in the world and I'm happy. Also, they've just opened a Ritz-Carlton in County Wicklow, Ireland, which is stunning and has great views.

Topics: Views, Giving, Four Seasons, Ritz

We used to have our own plane with the band's name on the side. It was a dream come true. You drive to a local airport. There's none of this checking in stuff; you just get on the plane.

source: - "Me and my travels". Interview with Jon Bennett, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

Topics: Dream, Airports, Names, True You

With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is.

source: - "How to travel like a rock star". Interview with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com. January 23, 2008.

Topics: Hate, Thinking, Fake

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

Topics: Song, Writing, Keys, Pop Song

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

Topics: Song, Fall, Years

The Vatican takes your breath away.

source: - "How to travel like a rock star". "Celebrity travel" with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

Topics: Song, Together, Bangs

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Beer, Play, Musician, Frustrating Things

Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.

source: - "Joe Elliott of Def Leppard". Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2011.

Topics: Rocks, Two, America

Just follow your gut. If you seriously believe that something is the right thing to do, if you are so convinced that your stomach is knotting up every time someone suggests an alternative way of doing all this, take a deep breath and just say, "You're wrong."