Glenn Hughes Quotes

It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.

I don't try to be someone I'm not - I've always followed my heart and trance has always been my main sound.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'

I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.

I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.

I personally wouldn't want my second album to sound like my first; it might sound very rocky or hard rock - and that wouldn't be melancholy. So if people think my music is melancholic, then so be it. It's meant to be uplifting, and I'm just basically saying what needs to be said.

In my early days, I sang rock stuff, but the career didn't kick until '67.

I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.

We didn't want to change who we are. We're not going to sit there and go, 'Let's be a rap band now.'

If you actually go back and listen to my first album, there are some things on there that are kind of rock 'n' roll.

Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.

If you write a country song, and it's the best song you've ever written but throw it out because you're a metal band, you'd be an idiot.

I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

It just seemed like all the records I have made since Creedence Clearwater Revival have all been sort of pushed off center. I felt like I was dancing around the outskirts of what is my true center. With this album, I really wanted to stay on the mark, right in the middle, right where rock 'n' roll is. I wanted this one to be easier, a lot more fun than some of the past records have been.

There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.

One of our biggest pet peeves is listening to bands that use harmony guitars for the sake of it. If you can't figure out how do something different than Maiden, UFO, or even Boston, then what's the point?

Rock music is a funny thing: You can actually take it too far sometimes, and then it's not rock music anymore - it's something else, but it's not rock.

The music I used to make was a lot more rock, so I come from this background of head banging a lot, and it took me a while to figure out how to do it in the context of our music.

I kept playing blues-based music all during the 1980s, and it was tough.

Me, who's educated classically, I went toward rock music 'cause it was sort of a natural evolution from where I was playing with my brother. But I was always drawn back into classical music.

You could say, 'Oh, we're gonna write the heaviest album of all time' or 'We're gonna write an album that sounds like 'Iowa.'' Even if we set out to try to do so, it would never compare. We're not those people anymore, we're not that band anymore.