Mick Mars Quotes

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

If we were going to look at how pharmalogical drugs influence crime, we should probably look at alcohol.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world

When drinkers became violent, communities accepted the idea that liquor was responsible for their actions; it made no sensate punish the person who committed the crime when the true offender was the alcohol.

Whenever I'm making songs, I am pretty much, quote unquote, freestyling them into existence.

I've finally figured out how to make a Rodney Crowell record, and that's let it be, leave the mistakes.

I love a drink. But I've never, ever in my life been on a stage and done a performance with an alcoholic drink inside me. Never have, never would. I've seen people who do and invariably they're never as good as they think they are.

No one should do drugs thinking that they will make a great record. That's not the way to go, for sure.

My roots are in classical music and jazz, and I want the freedom of being able to improvise. This freedom is possible only in a live concert.

I'm versatile, so however the beat makes me go on it, that's just what it do.

Drinking makes people go out of control.