Joe Walsh Quotes

I used to sing as a living while I was at university.

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.

I do a lot of touring, yes, and I have my whole life ever since I was 19 years old, when I used to tour with Al Jarreau, Rickie Lee Jones, and Jackson Browne as a side musician.

I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.

Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with.

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.

I've always been in touring bands in some capacity.

It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation.

I actually went to university.

I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.

When I was at U.C.L.A., I worked my way through school as a tour guide at Universal Studios, and I came in contact with a lot of people in the agency business.

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.

I want to travel around the country and make my living playing music. I also try to behave in a way that I would appreciate as a music fan. That's how we conduct ourselves, be it in writing music or playing it live.

My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.

When I was a backup singer, I enjoyed it.

I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.

I went to USC. I wasn't a rich kid or anything like that, so I had to get a scholarship. Went to USC; my first year, I took 26 units, so I got to have a nickname. Everyone goes, 'There's 26.' So I had a nickname. Having a nickname is a good thing because then you start to get popular, and you keep that going.

If my music career was my golf game, I'd be playing for about 26 people tonight somewhere.

I went to college at University of Tennessee.

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great.

Penn State was an awesome school. When I went and visited there, I was like 'Alright, I want to spend four years of college here.'

It's a great gig, really: getting on stage, playing the guitar, singing. For a living, it's super.