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Look at Bob Dylan: his voice is not a great sound, but it gets the idea across... and that is what's really important.
- Rick Nielsen
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I got to meet Keith Moon!
- Rick Nielsen
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I was three years old, and I walked onstage during a performance that my father was a tenor in 'The Barber of Seville.' I walked out onstage, and people started laughing and clapping, and that was it. That was all it took. Laughing and clapping, I still enjoy today.
- Rick Nielsen
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I have four warehouses full of stuff. I have every boarding pass of every flight I've ever been on. I have all the old contracts that we had from all the clubs and concerts we played, every one of them, up from 1980. Guitar picks and amps - it goes on and on.
- Rick Nielsen
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I like Harvey Mandel.
- Rick Nielsen
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I can't stand it when groups come back for an encore, and they play some slow thing. Oh, brother! It's like, 'Had I known that, I would've left.'
- Rick Nielsen
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If you start having to tell people you're cool, you're not.
- Rick Nielsen
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The song 'Hello There' was written because we never got a soundcheck. 'Hello There' was our soundcheck.
- Rick Nielsen
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If you don't have a great chorus, write a good bridge first. I often do that and find I write good bridges.
- Rick Nielsen
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I think I've probably had one of my guitars on display at every Hard Rock Cafe in the world.
- Rick Nielsen
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Whenever we tell the truth, nobody believes us. We lie, and people take it as etched-in-stone fact.
- Rick Nielsen
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I like 'Salty Dog' by Procol Harum.
- Rick Nielsen
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I knew the guys in the Allman Brothers way back in the day, before they were famous.
- Rick Nielsen
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The Ramones were American, and I knew about them, and I thought they were interesting. But they were like a pop band to me.
- Rick Nielsen
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The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - those guys were great.
- Rick Nielsen
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People are like, 'Why are you playing that five-neck guitar?' I want to hurt. I want to play.
- Rick Nielsen
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We played New Year's Eve in Los Angeles, maybe 1978, opening for Kansas or somebody. Driving to the hotel after the gig, we came on KLOS. It was like, 'All right! We're in L.A., we just played a big gig, and we're on the radio!' That was the start of something big.
- Rick Nielsen
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I never went to any high school dances or proms unless I was playing in them.
- Rick Nielsen
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I always thought of myself as more of a rhythm player than a big soloist.
- Rick Nielsen
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#Myself
#Rhythm
The Sex Pistols had it all - they had the snarl, they had the I-don't-give-a-crap attitude - plus, they could play.
- Rick Nielsen
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#Sex
Every other year, I spend Thanksgiving in England with Dave Clark from the Dave Clark Five and a bunch of other people.
- Rick Nielsen
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