Rick Nielsen Quotes

• If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

  Rick Nielsen

  Members, Tall, Ifs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everything works if you let it

  Rick Nielsen

  Ifs

  "Song: 'Everything works if you let it'". 1980.

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• If I weren't in the band, I would be a fan.

  Rick Nielsen

  Fans, Would Be, Band

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• I'm in a band. I have the basic idea, but when you surround yourself with really good players, why would I tell anyone what to play, because they're that good. They don't tell me what to play. They might encourage me, so that's what I do. I encourage them.

  Rick Nielsen

  Player, Ideas, Band

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.

  Rick Nielsen

  Husband, Kids, Wife

  "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.

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• I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.

  Rick Nielsen

  Opportunity, Guitar, Equal

  "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.

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• I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

  Rick Nielsen

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

  "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.

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• Every person I've ever met always thinks their parents are weird.

  Rick Nielsen

  Thinking, Parent, Mets

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs I wrote.

  Rick Nielsen

  Song, Bridges, Impressed

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm a reactor. I can react to crowds, performing situations.

  Rick Nielsen

  Crowds, Situation, Performing

  "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.

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• Surrender, but don’t give yourself away.

  Rick Nielsen

  Giving, Surrender

  "'Surrender' shows why Cheap Trick still rocks today" by Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 25, 2015.

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• Madison Square Garden sounds like crap.

  Rick Nielsen

  Garden, Squares, Sound

  "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.

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• When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.

  Rick Nielsen

  Growing Up, Parent, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.

  Rick Nielsen

  Parent, Trying, Worst

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I actually did my research and tried to get kind of like a working visa for Australia. It always seemed like it was a land of opportunities. The same size as the United States with one-tenth of the population.

  Rick Nielsen

  Opportunity, Australia, Land

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.

  Rick Nielsen

  Attitude, Interviews, Happens

  "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.

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• Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.

  Rick Nielsen

  Thinking, Play, Metallica

  "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.

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• I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.

  Rick Nielsen

  Men, Family Man

  "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.

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