Kip Winger Quotes

When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be in a band - that was the path to girls, adulation, money.

I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.

I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.

I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception.

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

I know what that tastes like, to be a rock-and-roll star - to have a limousine, to have girls screaming when they see you, girls trying to cut my hair, get a piece of me. But I don't walk around with a concept of myself as a rock-and-roll star, and certainly not as a musician, because I really can't play anything, except primitively.

When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.

How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

I think, in America, for a long time you had groups that wanted to be stars more than they wanted to make music.

It wasn't the muso thing that got me recognition in the beginning. It was doing 'Wild Thing.'

I never thought I'd be a, quote, 'rock & roll star.'

You can't buy being a rock star.

Film music has given me everything - career and popularity.

If you'd asked me when I was six, 16, and 26, I wanted nothing more than to be a big, recognized rock star. Especially when I was six and 16, because I thought that if I was a known guitar player in a known band, only cute girls would talk to me.

I have sung some great songs, and fortunately, all have gone to become hits.

I was a late bloomer in the music business.

You want to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed. But the truth is, there's only a few Bruce Springsteens and Paul McCartneys out there.

You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.

I never pursued being 'famous.'