Joe Walsh Quotes

When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.

To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.

We have a certain bond that we don't have with anyone else on the planet. You just have that bond, that journey when you are in a band together.

After two years of doing one show, you do get attached to everyone.

I'm not saying I'll never go solo - never is a long time - but I've always been onstage with someone else. That way, you're in it together, and you can feel, together, when the songs are right.

When you see U2 or the Rolling Stones, after years of knowing each other, they don't have to look at each other to connect.

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

I refuse to go onstage without looking into the eyes and touching everyone I'm working with... we're all in it together, and everyone's an equal part when we're onstage.

I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.

I'm always amazed at how records can make you feel like somebody else understands you.

We can be in the studio with the hottest producer, but we might not be able to create any magic! It's not about the hottest. It's about who we feel we have that connection with, and that's who we're going to be working with.

Anyone that I've ever worked with, it's not like I just meet you or someone throws us together for the sole purpose of coming up with a song that's gonna be a hit. I have to have some sort of relationship, or we had to have interacted on some other sort of level and that's when it feels most natural.

People always tell me that they grew up with me - like I'm their brother or uncle or some other family member. That keeps me going.

I don't ever have any bass in my monitors at all; I instead like to lock in with the guitar. I know the bass player has got to be locked in with the drummer, but to me, metal music is about the guitar and drums locking in and operating like a machine together. I played with my brother forever, and we were magically locked in together.

My collaborative albums are always way more enjoyable to make.

With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from.

The thing that's great about singing together is it's a great way of bringing people together.

I want our fans to feel like I'm here with them. We're here together. We're going to lose together. We're going to win together.

Of course it's always easy when you work with people that worked together, or you work with people that you worked with before, because you develop over years some sort of shorthand of communion that is always very valuable.

A lot of why I climb is for the friendship, the loyalty and trust, the shared experience of being in that moment.

There is definitely an art to the dance that is being in a band.

It's nice when you join another club that you know a couple of players.

I like feeling one with the audience, making the whole venue feel like one, it makes me happy.

I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.

Often if you are very, very close with someone, sometimes it does not read. In effect, your dynamic onstage is defused. You share too much onstage. There's sort of a blurring of behavior that doesn't read to the audience as chemistry.