Words matter. These are the best Richie Sambora Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.
I’m all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it’s breaking down the whole business.
A band is like a marriage, and if you’re in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.
Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates.
There are a lot of really good guitar sounds and new kind atmospheres on the new Bon Jovi record. I think people are going to dig it, man. And it rocks hard.
I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.
There’s nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that’s the truth.
When you’re making a record, you try to achieve stylistically what fits on you. Like a good old coat, you know what I mean?
I was the lead singer in a lot of the bands I was in. You have to be comfortable. You gotta get up there and sell the song. You have to get up there and sell the lyric. You gotta be able to feel it.
I love being a dad. I’d have more kids if I could. I’d take a couple more, one or two more before I croak.
As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that’s what I do, too.
The early Bon Jovi stuff I can’t stand. I just think we didn’t have our stylistic voice. But some people love some of that stuff.
You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money.
I’m a lucky guy. I don’t take for granted, for one minute, what I do.
When you walk out in front of an audience of over 70,000 people, you’ve got to be on your game. They deserve it.
I’ve had a very, very interesting view of the planet over the last 30 years, touring as excessively as I have. And music is the most evocative, transformative, connective force in humanity, man.
We’ve been around for almost three decades now – there’s about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.
You know, no matter what I am or what I do for a living, I’m still, you know, the husband and the dad and the protector of the house, and I have to be conscientious about that.
I’m on a search for my future ex-wife.
I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we’re humans and not some kind of bird.
I’ve spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I’m happy.
Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.
I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.
At the end of the day, if you’re going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing.
I didn’t check into rehab. Instead of me heading into a place – I was just drinking too much and I needed to get my life together. I’m still in therapy and stuff like that, but it’s good. I’m great. I feel fine.