120 Quotes by Peter Frampton

Everybody wants to be on the front cover of 'People' and 'Rolling Stone.'

When you put the phone down at the concert, there's your 3-D, there's your HD.

I often explain it to people that if you listen to a Who record and then go see the Who live, it's like two different bands. That's how Humble Pie worked. We were definitely a lot more ferocious live because of the energy that the entire population of us had.

Music is now becoming 'free,' and it's very difficult for new artists to start.

Everyone wanted to play like Eric Clapton in the early to mid-'60s.

My advice to new artists is to not follow a trend, but to start one. By that, I mean to not be tempted to do what business people might suggest to you, to jump on the bandwagon, but to be strong.

As long as I can have enough to make the record and pay the mortgage, those were always the two things that were most important to me.

Your own material is your identity, and I think that's what you need to stick to.

The power of your audience is in the hand of the artist now via all the media - Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and all of them - all of the new available techniques to get to people. I think that you are your best publicist and record company and everything right now when starting out.