Words matter. These are the best John Fogerty Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I’m not a good mandolin player at all.
When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.
I wrote that song for my wife, and it’s what some guy who’s sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that’s more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.
I’m now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I’ve gotten out a lot of the old equipment.
I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.
I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I’d never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.
I’m like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.
I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I’ve written that you never hear.
The Telecaster doesn’t really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.
Now that I’m older, I like almost anything that’s done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.
And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.
Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn’t think I could carry his shoes back then.
Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.
I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.
No, but I’ve always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don’t take my fans for granted.
I don’t know that all the demons have been beaten, but I’m very, very proud of those songs.
I’ve also become much more the musician I’ve always wanted to be.
I’m much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.
But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.
I’ve studied a lot of great people over the years – Pete Seeger, James Brown – and tried to incorporate elements that I’ve admired, though I can’t say I dance like James.
