Joe Elliott famous quotes

05-12-2025

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

#Song #Writing #Easy
I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.
-- Joe Elliott

#Different #Stage #Feels
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.
-- Joe Elliott

#Manhattan #Beats #Bigs
In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.
-- Joe Elliott

#Country #Rocks #England
The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.
-- Joe Elliott

#Holiday #Parent #Firsts
We just wanted to put a smile on people's faces. That's all we ever wanted to do.
-- Joe Elliott

#People #Faces #Wanted
I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.
-- Joe Elliott

#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.
-- Joe Elliott

#Song #Horse #Crazy
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.
-- Joe Elliott

#Thinking #Wrinkles #Hair
If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.
-- Joe Elliott

#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.
-- Joe Elliott

#Years #Europe #Cities
There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.
-- Joe Elliott

#Song #Rocks #Rock Song
I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.
-- Joe Elliott

#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.
-- Joe Elliott

#Views #Giving #Four Seasons
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.
-- Joe Elliott

#Dream #Airports #Names
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.
-- Joe Elliott

#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.
-- Joe Elliott

#Song #Writing #Keys
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.
-- Joe Elliott

#Song #Fall #Years
The Vatican takes your breath away.
-- Joe Elliott
Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.
-- Joe Elliott

#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.
-- Joe Elliott

#Beer #Play #Musician
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.
-- Joe Elliott

#Rocks #Two #America

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