John Fogerty Quotes
"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."
- John Fogerty
(Related: People, Dance, Years)
"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."
- John Fogerty
(Related: Music, Now)
"On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians."
- John Fogerty
(Related: Eye, Musicians)
"That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all."
- John Fogerty
(Related: Song)
"The ones I have got great necks; of course, all of the Fenders from that era are incredible."
- John Fogerty
"The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics."
- John Fogerty
"The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played."
- John Fogerty
(Related: People, Sound)
"You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other."
- John Fogerty
(Related: Music, People, Musicians, Play)
"Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas."
- John Fogerty
(Related: American, Name, Old)
"I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment."
- John Fogerty
(Related: Now, Old, Songs)
"I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be."
- John Fogerty
"There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar."
- John Fogerty
(Related: Guitar, Sound, Trying)
"And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool."
- John Fogerty
(Related: Now)
"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."
- John Fogerty
(Related: People, Majority, Play, Trying)
"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."
- John Fogerty
(Related: Work, Talent, Appreciation, Commitment, Fans, Hard work, Respect, Words)
"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."
- John Fogerty
(Related: Life, Wife, Singing, Song, Woman)
"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."
- John Fogerty
(Related: Work, Fact, Songs)
"I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker."
- John Fogerty
(Related: Time, Play, Pretty)
"I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you."
- John Fogerty
"I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power."
- John Fogerty
(Related: Power, Thought, Guitar)
"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."
- John Fogerty
(Related: Cheating, Guitar, Mind, Play, Thinking)
"I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs."
- John Fogerty
(Related: Songs)
"Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then."
- John Fogerty
"Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other."
- John Fogerty
(Related: Music, Musicians)
"But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony."
- John Fogerty
(Related: Harmony)
"I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission."
- John Fogerty
(Related: Performance, Mission, Now)