122 Quotes by Rick Nielsen

I was three years old, and I walked onstage during a performance that my father was a tenor in 'The Barber of Seville.' I walked out onstage, and people started laughing and clapping, and that was it. That was all it took. Laughing and clapping, I still enjoy today.

My parents were opera singers. I didn't want to play opera because I wasn't good enough. I didn't want to play their music; I wanted to play the music that I wanted to play, and I'm so lucky that today I get to play that music, even though I don't like every song I write.

We're a band's band. We have real songs, real players, real problems. Real ups, real downs.

I feel like such an idiot... you know, that our band didn't break up just so we can re-form and become more and more popular.

We may not be proud of every song we've ever done - or been forced to do - but I believe we've done more than meets the eye.

Whenever we tell the truth, nobody believes us. We lie, and people take it as etched-in-stone fact.

You've got to work hard and have luck. Luck only enters in if you do work hard.

I like the guys in Cheap Trick. I like playing in it and the music we do.

We tried to act trendy. We took one of our songs and tried to make a dance mix. They put it on the turntables, unannounced, in Los Angeles and New York the same weekend, where they had a big dance crowd going wild. It cleared the floor on both coasts.