Jerry Only Quotes

That's what my music does for me. It makes people happy. When I play, I thank the Lord I've never seen someone walk away from a Dick Dale dance not having a good time. That's what it's all about.

I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit.

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

I've always gone back and forth between acting and music, but for music I'm not trying to be a pop star - I just like to do it.

When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good looking, who suddenly made a bit of money and who felt no embarrassment - and nor should they have done - about having a good time.

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

There's actually a song called 'Vegas Lights,' which I wanted to be an anthem for Vegas, that represented how I felt when I went to the clubs. I felt this weird energy where everybody was having a good time, and it didn't matter. Dancing like nobody's watching. It was kind of beautiful.

I just love playing guitar, so that's what I'm going to do.

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it.

You don't do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.

When you're a front man for a band, there's nowhere to hide. It took me a long time to get used to that. But music is my first love. I started singing when I talked.

I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

Music has always been my first love, so making music happen is a big priority of mine.

I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don't do it to seek anybody's approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.

I'd love to do my own music for sure. I'd love to have a band.

People want to rap about having a good time.

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

I just feel like a kid that has some money now, that can take care of my family... I think I'll always be a kid. I'm always messing around, always running around, always trying to have a good time.