Joe Perry famous quotes

I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America so granted, it is part of our heritage and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.
-- Joe Perry

#Country #Running #Gun

I think that's really important, that kids get exposed to music as soon as they can - not necessarily to become musicians, but at least have an outlet. It's an art form that's easily accessible to young ears.
-- Joe Perry

#Art #Kids #Thinking

Take life on life's terms - one day at a time. And have fun while you're doing it.
-- Joe Perry

#Fun #One Day At A Time #Term

Music is music you don't have to put a label on it
-- Joe Perry

#Labels #Music Is

The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n roll thing going on.
-- Joe Perry

#Cute #Real #Cutting

India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember - ever since the '60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
-- Joe Perry

#Long #Feelings #India

My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express myself artistically.
-- Joe Perry

#Guitar #Play #Able

I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.
-- Joe Perry

#Killing #More Time #Glad

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.
-- Joe Perry

#Media #Play #Trying

The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get.
-- Joe Perry

#Trying #Sound #Juice

I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art.
-- Joe Perry

#Art #Warrior #Pistols

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.
-- Joe Perry

#Thinking #Play #Years

There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had ***** in me
-- Joe Perry

#Rocks #Rock N Roll #Heroin

I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.
-- Joe Perry

#Real #Night #Screw Ups

I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.
-- Joe Perry

#Boys #Thinking #Fans

I know that the gift that God gave me isn't gonna just wither up and die unless I let it die, so it's a matter of me having the faith that it's gonna come out. Whether or not the public's gonna like it is another story. But I think as long as I keep changing and sticking to what I really love - and the same goes for Steven and the other guys in the band - then people are gonna like it.
-- Joe Perry

#Thinking #Long #People

I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.
-- Joe Perry

#Thinking #Lucky #Band

I don't need to speak...I play the guitar!
-- Joe Perry

#Guitar #Play #Needs

Berry's On Top is probably my favorite record of all time; it defines rock and roll. A lot of people have done Chuck Berry songs, but to get that feel is really hard. It's the rock and roll thing-the push-pull and the rhythm of it.
-- Joe Perry

#Song #Rocks #Rock And Roll

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!
-- Joe Perry

#Bored #Trying #Albums

There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.
-- Joe Perry

#Children #Echoes #Careers

I don't see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid.
-- Joe Perry

#Stupid #Doe #Looks

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.
-- Joe Perry

#Rocks #Rock And Roll #Rock N Roll

For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.
-- Joe Perry

#Creative

You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.
-- Joe Perry

#Thinking #Twists #Three

The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity
-- Joe Perry

#Music #Play #People

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.
-- Joe Perry

#Guy #Together #Band

When I got sober and started working out, I fell into that trap of working out too much. I know a lot of guys can relate to that - if you don't get that runner's high every day, you feel like, 'Oh my God, I'm losing it.'
-- Joe Perry

#Work Out #Guy #Too Much

Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive.
-- Joe Perry

#Powerful #Mean #Band

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.
-- Joe Perry

#Player #Guitar #Sound

When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that's my shot of adrenaline, and there's nothing like it. That's what it's always been for me - to be the flame the tribe dances around.
-- Joe Perry

#Guitar #Flames #Play

Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.
-- Joe Perry

#Song #Years #Band

Sometimes when a record's done, I'm satisfied and I won't listen back to it for a while 'cause I'm usually pretty tired of the songs. Then I've got to learn them again to play them live, and sometimes it takes a while to realise it's a really good record.
-- Joe Perry

#Song #Tired #Play

I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.
-- Joe Perry

#Soul #Musical #Diaries

I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.
-- Joe Perry

#Song #Thinking #Age

I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.
-- Joe Perry

#Thinking #People #Action

I think one of the most valuable things Aerosmith has is the energy we produce when we all play together.
-- Joe Perry

#Thinking #Play #Together

I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back.
-- Joe Perry

#Feelings #Firsts #Inspired

I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.
-- Joe Perry

#Fire #People #Use

I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic; the spices are so sensuous.
-- Joe Perry

#Cuisine #Spices #Mixtures

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.
-- Joe Perry

#Song #Mtv

I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.
-- Joe Perry

#Thinking #Trying

Steven and I stood on the stage at the Boston Garden after the Stones had just played there and the stage was still up. We had been playing cards, maybe a high-school dance, to 400 or 500, maybe a thousand. We just stood on the stage and thought, 'Well,man,maybe someday.' In 4 years that was OUR stage.
-- Joe Perry

#School #Men #Garden

Rhythm and sex go together and that's where I come from as far as the music goes. Rag Doll and Love In An Elevator are such sexual songs that you put them on & the strippers go NUTS!
-- Joe Perry

#Song #Sex #Nuts

The '70's came and went already
-- Joe Perry