John Corabi Quotes

People expect you to be this weird cartoon sometimes when you're a musician. I hate that. I hate standing out. I hate people looking at me. I just want to be part of the crowd.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

I'm so far removed from live playing any more.

Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.

'A Little Nightmare Music' is the first show we created. It's about all the nightmares that can happen in the span of a concert. When things go wrong - when the lights go out or a cellphone rings - that's when an audience suddenly comes alive, wondering what's going to happen next. Things going wrong often leads to something good.

Here's the thing about The Go-Go's: Onstage, any moment could be a total train wreck.

Since we are not robots, we can't always perform well.

Obviously nobody likes it when you walk offstage, including your band.

Obviously, Iron Maiden is on a way bigger scale to British Lion, but as a musician playing live, it's just the adrenaline rush of playing in front of an audience that gives you that rush.

Not every game is going to be perfect. Not every game is going to be an interception or two or a big-bang tackle, so to say.

Every performer will have a bad night. It's just inevitable.

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

I'm inconsistent because I'm human.

The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.

I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.

[It's] not one thing this year, one thing another year.

The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.

The way I photograph... in many ways it's directed by chance and all my mistakes, which are often the best stuff. I found that no matter if it's the same tape, the same TV, and the same camera, I can never duplicate an image... your arm jiggles, there's just too much chance. And I never put it on pause, or use any of that fancy equipment.

I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you. After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it.

We are imperfect beings in a very imperfect world, and the one thing we can count on is that things will go wrong, and that each and every one of us will have problems.

Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time.

I knew what I wanted to do, which was to become a recording artist, so I definitely felt like I had a calling. The performing part was the part that I wasn't sure about.

It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top