Noel Redding Quotes

One day I got a phone call, and Johnny and Dee Dee asked me if I wanted to join their band. I said, 'Yeah.'

Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.

I love playing with Slash, and the chemistry I have with the rest of the guys in his band is fantastic.

Our bassist, Tim Staffell, was at art college with Frederick Bulsara, who changed his name to Freddie Mercury and joined the band on vocals after Tim left in 1970.

A rock band with vocals is what I always wanted to be a part of; in fact, it feels very natural for me.

For fun, I love to play the drums... poorly. I have a band, a bunch of theater nerds - we got together, and we're like, 'Let's play rock music for three hours and never take breaks.' We call ourselves The U.S. Open.

I was in the band for the first six albums.

I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.

It's great fun to play with a really good band.

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

They asked me to sing - actually, it was Dee Dee, because he had seen me in Sniper and thought I wasn't like anybody else. Everybody else was doing an Iggy or a Mick Jagger.

I think I always wished I could play guitar as well as Jimi Hendrix.

I wasn't on 'You Really Got Me,' but I did play on the Kinks' records.

I love playing music with Duane Eddy.

In 1956, I began playing in a band with Boz Scaggs.

Joe Walsh is somebody who... he's a writer, obviously, and he's a singer-songwriter, whatever, but at the end of the day, when it comes to the Eagles, he's there to play guitar, and he's there to supply whatever is needed for that band, and that is what I feel with Metallica.

As a member of Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave and now Prophets of Rage I'm pretty used to coming on stage and there's a full house.

No, there's other actor who could play The Clown in Slipknot.

I gravitated towards Jim Ward, because I knew he was totally into the work aspect of being in a band.

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - those guys were great.

If you had asked me in 2005, when I had just joined Foreigner, that I would leave the band in 2007 to play with Led Zeppelin, I would have said you're nuts.