86 Quotes by Michael Anthony

Too many times adults are insensitive to the nurture and instruction of children. Notice the balance! On the one hand there is training, nurturing, or instruction of a child. On the other, the warning or instructional dimension is emphasized. Training in God’s Word must have a relational aspect.

The first ear of corn, eaten like a typewriter, means summer to me – intense, but fleeting.

I grabbed the closest box of books and heaved it onto my bed. It contained all the books I had read in Iraq. Dog-eared, with broken spines, speckled with dirt, food, and even a little blood, most of the copies were marked up with notes in the margins. The better the book, the worse it looked – that’s the way it should be. As I saw it, they were almost more like diaries than books.

It was never so much the heavy metal thunder that got me. I was into players who played with taste and did these walking bass parts. If you can play like that, it really opens up the music. You can't just pound away. After a while it's like, 'So what? What else you got?'

Jack Bruce really showed me that you could go anywhere with a bass part, and as long as you stayed in time, as long as you held down the groove, the door was wide open.

I didn't have any money to buy a car, so when I got my license I did not have a car at first.

It's weird because it almost takes something like Chickenfoot to make me realize why I was playing music in the first place. And that's to have fun.

I'm the ultimate rock 'n' roll sideman. But that doesn't mean a 'sideman' isn't vital.

You ever notice how when you get a new tattoo, it's like a magnet? People are drawn to it, everybody wants to touch it?