145 Quotes by Joe Perry

I don’t want fans to think we’re clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven’t.

When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that’s my shot of adrenaline, and there’s nothing like it. That’s what it’s always been for me – to be the flame the tribe dances around.

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

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.’

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

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.

I don’t think there’s anything anybody’s doing that the Beatles didn’t at least try at some point.

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.