Joe Perry Inspirational Quotes (31)

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

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

There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me

The Beatles did everything long before anyone else. They weren't afraid to try things and to experiment with a lot of sounds. In 200 years, when you look up 'rock and roll' in the dictionary, it'll have a picture of the Beatles next to it.

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

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.

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