The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.
The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.
The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band.
Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.
Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance and have fun.
My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.
Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.
Let the wealthier countries and corporations of the world fund an Emergency Organization.
Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.
It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.
I'm not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It's strictly my taste. But there is a connection between everything I play and the sets I put together.
I'd never go onstage in my life without fully intending to do the best show you've ever seen.
I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.
I think it's important that all 50 years of rock 'n' roll live in the same place, because it's all connected.
I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band - everything having to do with a band, I happen to be into.
I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.
I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.
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I didn't make that much money... Once I joined Bruce (Springsteen), I took a huge pay cut.
Half of the acting I do is actually done by the hair.
Enuff Z'nuff is one of the most underrated bands in the world!
Being a rock 'n' roll star ain't a part-time gig.
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Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours.
As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the medias power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind.
Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.
First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong.
From the age of 14, 13, I guess I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. And that was it. I wanted to make a living playing rock 'n' roll, and it was a ridiculously impossible dream at that time. But it was kind of all I ever wanted to do. It's nice to do it.
Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!
I am a reformed Taoist, part-time Buddhist, Hindu, animist, pagan, Jewish mystic, and Christian. I always got along great with priests and rabbis and mullahs and gurus, even though I spend most of my life constructively criticizing them.
I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsession, each contributing something unique to make something greater than the sum of its parts. I don't know why, but from day one, that has interested me.
