Joe Walsh Quotes

For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16, and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that.

I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I'm always interested in the mastery of the live performance.

There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.

One thing about Texas people, they're very passionate about their Rock N' Roll, and I love it.

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love the experience. I don't dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else.

I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.

Most of my friends are from the music scene.

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

There wasn't a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.

This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that's willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.

I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.

Music festivals are coming up everywhere in India, and that is the only way to go ahead. People are exposed to a wide variety of music, and the experience of being at a music festival itself is unique. It is an experience unlike any other.

I just like country because a lot of those guys are from towns that I'm maybe from, for one. But also, I like how humble they are, and they're genuine people, I think. I'm not saying that rappers or rock and roll, those people, aren't. But I just feel like I get along with those guys because they're from small town.

Any city that's worth a dang certainly has a musical heartbeat, a culture, and a scene that can stand on its own.

I love Houston music to death.

Gojira is my favorite band of all time; they're lovely, I've seen them live two times. I also love Mastodon and the Refused as well.

Music is in Mississippi's DNA, whether it's the blues, country music, folk, or rock 'n' roll. It's not just a source of cultural pride, but also a strong contributor to our economy.

We didn't have the Grand Ole Opry or country radio stations in Nova Scotia when I was growing up.

It's really cool to see people show up at the shows night after night, and they're screaming the words of the song.