145 Quotes by Joe Perry

I'm turned off by the groupie thing. I'm a romantic; I like finding the right woman, and if it works, it works.

My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.

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.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

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.

If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.

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.

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.