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Joe Perry Inspirational Quotes (31)

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I never envisioned what I was doing as part of a career.
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Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.
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You don't throw clothes away, because you know it's going to come back in fashion!
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I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.
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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.
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I don't need to speak...I play the guitar!
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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.'
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Take life on life's terms - one day at a time. And have fun while you're doing it.
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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.
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I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone.
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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!
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Aerosmith is such a powerful band I mean, it's like a steam locomotive.
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Get good live and get a following because that's what people notice.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.
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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.
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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.
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A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.
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A lot of people don't listen to the albums. They just listen to the singles.
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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.
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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.
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I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.
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