Steve Jones Quotes

It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.

Our dad was a singer and keyboardist and was in bands throughout his whole life. He was in a band called Sweathog that opened for Black Sabbath and eventually was the lead singer of Tower of Power for a few years.

I don't play guitar. I sing. I'm the lead singer, of Cousin Billy. I also play harmonica, after a fashion.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.

I fancied being a lead singer. I've always done a lot of vocals, but obviously, Freddie is the lead singer.

Now, when you've been in the band for three years, you get used to the position, in a sense. I don't think about it every day like, 'Oh my God, I'm the singer of Nightwish!'

I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.

I started out as a dancer, but gradually became more interested in music.

I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.

I feel like I can be a frontman; I feel like I have good songs.

I liked the Sex Pistols' music. I thought it was superb.

I left home to become a singer and didn't realise when I turned comedian.

I love Hootie & the Blowfish and what we do, but that's not my main focus anymore.

The bands that were big in '77, like the Clash and the Sex Pistols and Talking Heads, I got into them in the early '80s. And it changed my life. It got into my DNA.

For years, my dad's friend Joe was just my dad's friend. And it was only when I was 12 or 13 I learned that he was the lead singer of a band called The Clash.

I absolutely am not the 'de facto front man' in The Mob - that title surely goes to Russell Allen, who is one of the best front men in the business. I am just happy to be part of the band and not necessarily leading it.

There is only one Steve Perry, and I am a fan.

I'd never have left Hawkwind if I hadn't been fired.

I ended up starting guitar because I didn't want to just be the lead singer.

I moved to Dallas, and I started making music.

I started as a jazz musician, not a singer, then I became a rock 'n' roll artist with Aphrodite's Child.

I'm a busy girl, and I've been switching gears from telly and putting my heart and soul into music.

I think that Steve Perry will always be known as the singer of Journey. I have so much respect for him.

I wanted to be a guitar player.