Joe Perry Quotes - Page 2

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• 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, Years, Play

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• For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.

  Joe Perry

  Creative

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• 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

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• There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen.

  Joe Perry

  Country, Player, Rocks

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 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

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• 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

  "Aerosmith leader Joe Perry talks 'Sons of Guns,' classic firearms, defending the Second Amendment". Interview with Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.

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• Get good live and get a following because that's what people notice.

  Joe Perry

  People, Following

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 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

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

  Joe Perry

  Powerful, Mean, Band

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• 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, Different

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• 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

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• 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

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• 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

  Erotic, Spices, Mixtures

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• 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

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• I never envisioned what I was doing as part of a career.

  Joe Perry

  Careers

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• 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

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• The really pop country stuff can sound a little bland because they put in strings and horns and all of that.

  Joe Perry

  Country, Sound, Littles

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It's probably listening to country music that got me to start playing a lot cleaner, not as distorted.

  Joe Perry

  Country, Listening, Cleaners

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• A lot of people don't listen to the albums. They just listen to the singles.

  Joe Perry

  People, Albums, Singles

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

  Joe Perry

  Successful, Band, Records

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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

  Joe Perry

  Song, Thinking, Age

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• 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

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• 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, Rifles

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• The '70's came and went already

  Joe Perry

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• 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

  Break Through, Trying, Sound

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