Note-When I add new quotes, I add them to the bottom.
"...quite honestly, who wants to be a 40-year-old Goo Goo Doll?"
--John on why he wants to get into film scoring.
"I love the reviews that say the recods don't grow. I'd like to play them album 1 and ambum 8 and have them say there's no growth. Thats ridiculus."
--Robby Takac
"If you write an amazing cool song that you mean, and then you go and put on your leather pants and sing it in front of people that's okay. But if you put your leather pants on and stand in front of the mirror and go 'okay, Ive got to write a song to fit with these pants', then you're in trouble."
--John Rzeznik
"Its fun to get dressed up but you gotta make sure that your music is intact before you think about any of that crap."
--John Rzeznik
"the hippest of the hip dont come to see us anymore but thats okay becayse they are boaring any way"
--John Rzeznik
"Dude, we fight sometimes like you would never believe. Weve chased eachother down the block. I threw him down a staircase when his arm was broken"
--Robby on fights with john
"I dont write mysic for the critics or the hipsters. I write it for myself"
--John Rzeznik on does he get pissed by bad reviews
"Fuck that. Take the Stevie Ray Vaughn preset or whatever and whack the hell out of it and run it through something else. Put a wound G string on your electric. Poke a hole in your speaker like the Kinks did. Be creative. The worst that could happen is that it sucks."
--John Rzeznik on people who feel the need to copy other peoples guitar techniques (cant spell)
"There's a certain perception the public has of this band," he says, "and that's John standing out in front, doing what he does so unbelievable well. It's different from what I do. So am I disappointed that his songs are always the singles? Absolutely not. Do I wish one of my songs would be a single?" Takac laughs. "Well, if I had one I could probably move into a house a little further up the hill, but no, I don't really care."
--Robby Takac (personally i loved this quote because i always felt bad that John got all the attention and Robby got what was left. So it made me fell REALLY happy when he said it didnt matter to him. This quote made me realize that hes fine with where he is)
"But I guess we'll see when the critics get a hold of it and start telling us what our record is all about."
--Robby Takac on critics
He's the only rap guy that still bothers to sing a chorus, and he pisses enough people off that he's worth listening to!
--Mike Milanin
Everyone goes to L.A. to be noticed. I went there to be invisible.
--John Rzeznik
He held my head when I threw up in the toilet. He took me to the hospital to have my stomach pumped. He loaned me twenty bucks last night. He listens to all my lies and ignores me when I'm full of shit. And that's a big difference, if you know what I mean.
--John Rzeznik on Robby
I can still fix the Hell out of a toilet
--John Rzeznik
You're not going to get that thrill of holding the record, smelling the vinyl as you pull it out of the cardboard ... how amazing was that? Checking to see what's inside, getting your KISS army sticker, you know, the whole thing. You can do all that stuff now. It's just you have to come at it from a different angle, I guess. And it's the creative people that are going to find those avenues
--Robby Takac on downloading MP3's
