122 Quotes by Rick Nielsen

If you can make it in Rockford, you can make it anywhere.

I did what I believed in. It got me in trouble, but it also got me a job.

If you can say something special on the guitar, then you're going to perk my ears up. But if you're just gonna run through all the scales, then I can always find something else to listen to.

Duane Eddy is somebody I wanted to play like. I discovered him before The Beatles, and he totally got to me. He sent me a note back in 1977 and said that he really liked what Cheap Trick were doing. That's one of those 'Wow!' moments, you know?

I knew the guys in the Allman Brothers way back in the day, before they were famous.

I love to be the loudest thing in the room.

I've owned about 2,000 guitars through the years because I've traded a lot and given away and sold some stuff.

There's no rush to ever put out a new Cheap Trick record. We put it out when we feel like it.

Nobody wants to hear long speeches.