Top 50 Peter Frampton Quotes

I love to be a hermit.

The power of your audience is in the hand of the artist now via all the media – Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and all of them – all of the new available techniques to get to people. I think that you are your best publicist and record company and everything right now when starting out.

I’m learning all the time. I’ve learned things like how to be a better person, better father, better husband.

‘Penny for Your Thoughts’ was something I noodled on for a while.

You can’t listen to ‘Frampton Comes Alive!’ without smiling.

I started out as a musician, and I ended up as a cartoon.

I was petrified about ‘I’m in You.’ I couldn’t wait to get it done to know whether it was good or not.

I used to jam with Steve Marriott of the Small Faces.

I write about what happens to me. It’s all there. I couldn’t do it any other way.

An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he’s not true to his own art.

I’ve always wanted to be the best guitarist in the world, ever since I was eight years old.

The ‘Frampton’ album sold better than all of the other solo records that I’d had, put together. It was over 300,000 copies, so that was a good signal that we were poised for my first gold record.

I love staying at home and not seeing a guitar for ten days… but then I love that feeling of picking it up again.

People tell me they got married to ‘Baby, I Love Your Way.’ It’s heart-warming – I’ve been part of so many people’s lives.

Money never meant that much to me.

When you put the phone down at the concert, there’s your 3-D, there’s your HD.

Most of everything I’ve ever written actually was written on acoustic. ‘Do You Feel’ was written on electric. ‘I’m in You’ was written on piano.

Music is now becoming ‘free,’ and it’s very difficult for new artists to start.

I was allowed a freedom as a baby boomer to do whatever I wanted to do. My parents were able to give their permission because they just felt, ‘Why not?’ I joined my first band and dropped out of school.

I’ve been a huge Gregg Allman fan since first hearing the Brothers’ live ‘Fillmore’ album.

I’ve had the honor of sitting in with the Allmans at their Beacon shows a couple of times, and it just doesn’t get better than that.

In 1978, I had a near-fatal car accident in the Bahamas. There was a point when I could have lost my right arm – but it was good because it forced me to slow down and take a break.

‘Frampton Comes Alive!’ is the album I’ll always be remembered for. I’m very proud of the music that’s on it. Why it exploded the way it did and continues to live on are things that can’t fully be explained.

I think ‘I’m in You’ was lackluster and way too light.

After ‘Frampton Comes Alive!’ became a huge success, I really needed to take time off to work out what the hell just happened. Instead, I just kept working.

A lot of people were moved to write after September 11th. It had to affect us all in a way.

If one percent of the people who take iPad or iPhone videos of concerts watch them, I’d be very surprised.

I’d often use a Leslie cabinet on its own in the studio because everyone in the late Sixties and Seventies was experimenting with them. We’d stick anything through a Leslie because it made everything sound so good.

I think that my parents wanted my brother and I to do what they couldn’t have done and live a free life and not worry about war.

Somewhere along the way, things got confused, and the pop-star side of my career got in the way of my musician side.

Your own material is your identity, and I think that’s what you need to stick to.

I formed Humble Pie when I was only 18. We were one of the first ‘supergroups,’ with Steve Marriott of The Small Faces on guitar and Greg Ridley of Spooky Tooth on bass. With Humble Pie, I tasted American success for the first time.

People are buying my life when they’re buying those records. I hate to sound bigheaded or something, but that’s the reality of it. Suddenly, everything you’ve been doing means something.

I’m lucky. I’ve got my own studio. I can make my own music, but not many people can do that. I will always be making new music, because that’s what I have to do; that’s why I’m here. I will always do that.

I would like to be No. 2 but never No. 1. When I was No. 1, all eyes were on me. No. 2 slips out the door quietly and makes another great record.

I don’t think I could ever be in a band if we just had to go out there and play the record note for note. I’d give up. I’d become a banker.

I think, at some point, I might have said it must be great to be as big as Elvis, but that wasn’t a realistic dream.

I love working with film, whether it’s the technical side, the acting side, or the musical side.

I wrote ‘Show Me the Way’ in the morning and wrote ‘Baby, I Love Your Way’ in the afternoon of the same day. I’ve been trying to figure out what I ate for breakfast that morning ever since!

When you don’t have someone, you feel you want someone. Then when you do, it’s nice to be single for one night.

This was the rule that I had when we made ‘Frampton Comes Alive!’: being known as a live performer, I’m not going to go into the studio and overdub.

A year before ‘Frampton Comes Alive!’ we had released the studio version of ‘Show Me The Way’ as a single – it was on the ‘Frampton’ album – and it totally tanked. Nothing.

A pop star’s career lasts 18 months.

I believe I’m an artist that just shines live – it’s just something that happens.

Everybody wants to be on the front cover of ‘People’ and ‘Rolling Stone.’

Mistakes were made, so I learned by my mistakes.

The more simple my life is, the happier I am.

I am an oldies act – yes, I am – there’s that part of me, but I am so much more than that.

If there’s ever a live record that deserved to be mixed in surround sound, it’s ‘Frampton Comes Alive.’

It got to the point where I couldn’t afford to borrow any more money to lose. Know what I mean? That was just before ‘Frampton,’ my fourth album. As we were recording it, I was very down and depressed.