Luka Sulic Quotes

A lot of times you'll hear bands and it's a different sound coming out than what's on stage. Because you can clean it up through a PA and make it sound completely different than what they really sound like.

On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. That's only on the intro, where all those weird noises are happening.

Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.

The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.

I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

When we were recording, sometimes I wondered if what we were doing would even be possible to play live.

As a rock band, you're slightly one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums.

My basic setup is my Ibanez Fireman guitars and for pedals, the TC Electronic MojoMojo is the mainstay of my board, along with a Catalinbread Calissto Chorus.

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

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so on, and so they're even more successful in that context than they were on the record.

When I did the solo acoustic tour in 2010, I fell in love with that kind of performance.

I play like I play. You hear it on 'Celebration Day.' It's pretty good for a one-night shot.

I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you.

The show isn't about screens, and we don't have any video content or lasers or things blowing up. I want people to come to our show to listen. I want the show to be the music.

I sang and played keyboard, so I was virtually a statue at the back of the stage. I'm not complaining about that; I enjoyed that role.

Everything Paul Kossoff did came from his fingers and went right into the amp. He was his own effects unit.

Originally, AXS TV came to me last year and asked me if I'd be interested in doing an acoustic 'Live from the Grammy Museum' performance. But I was bound and determined to do an electric show with this great band to dispel any notion that I wasn't a 'rock guy' in Styx.

We just want to be a band and play good music.

It's so easy to make albums with overdubbing and editing these days, but I really prefer playing live and just getting the music to sound right because the musicians, the songs and the performances are good.

I have a great band from Jersey and New York. I say that because they got great attitude, and we have a great time on stage.

I think anyone who knows the audio process knows what mixing and mastering is.