Johnny Rivers Quotes

"In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: First, Now)

"In early '57, I bought a Fender Telecaster."
- Johnny Rivers

"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Ideas)

"My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: First, Guitar)

"One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: First)

"One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Will)

"The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: First)

"The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Internet)

"When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Work, Artists)

"I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it."
- Johnny Rivers

"Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: People, Disaster)

"The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Time, First)

"I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Time, Work, Months)

"I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Night)

"I think my favorite album was probably Realization."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Favorite)

"I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Soul)

"I loved playing and I was actually working two jobs."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Jobs)

"I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it."
- Johnny Rivers

"I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed."
- Johnny Rivers

"Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Music, Time, Songs, Talking, Writing)

"But I always loved songs with great lyrics."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Songs)

"Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Building, Company, Publishing)

"After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because it was so inexpensive."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Success, Chance)

"About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Money, Months)

"I accepted an offer to do a concert for the reopening of the Mall of Memphis."
- Johnny Rivers