Les Claypool Quotes

Everyone loves to feast their eyes on Times Square on New Year's Eve.

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.

To play your music in front of the fans that love it, it's like the best feeling in the world.

The last time I saw Elvis was when I played my second New Year's Eve show for him in 1970.

Pop was great fun.

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.

You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.

That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

The best thrill is standing on stage and playing - other than being married to my wife.

And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.

The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.

I'm going to have some fabulous nights out with champagne.

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

I hate New Year's Eve.

The Hart family loves to celebrate!

To me, there is nothing like the excitement and unique experience of a live orchestra playing.

We think of the Warped Tour as kind of like everyone's big birthday party.

Oh, man, the first concert I ever went to was Boston and Sammy Hagar, and it was absolutely incredible. I was just blown away by both bands, and, once again, it was my first concert, so that made it super, super special.

Wherever it is, as long as I have a room full of people ready to have a good time, I will take them there and I will keep them up late.

We played New Year's Eve in Los Angeles, maybe 1978, opening for Kansas or somebody. Driving to the hotel after the gig, we came on KLOS. It was like, 'All right! We're in L.A., we just played a big gig, and we're on the radio!' That was the start of something big.

There's nothing like the feeling of being in Times Square for New Year's Eve. It's such a great rush. You feel like the whole world is there. People from all over the world coming to celebrate together.