Words matter. These are the best Rick Danko Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The pressures, I don’t really like to think about the pressures, I like to solve them, you know what I mean. I could sit here and complain about pressures but nobody wants to hear about pressures.
I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I’ve always liked – I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven’t had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.
I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It’s not that way for most folks, but I’d be lost without it.
When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!
Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns.
As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.
I started working with Bob in 1965. We did go through a lot of changes from 65 to 74, a lot of changes. By 1974, everything had straightened itself out.
You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn’t want to run it into the ground.
I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.
I am using soybean based ink, which is recyclable.
When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.
Getting older, I realize I’ve had a very fortunate life. I’ve had a budget that’s allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I’m still alive and here.
The Band was always famous for its retirements; we’d go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.
When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.
Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.
I’m here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.
By doing something positive in this world, you’re helping people and the future. We’re all trying to help the world… make it a better place to live. We’re actually still changing the world, aren’t we?
