People don’t buy music anymore; they’re stealing it. But you can’t steal a live show. There’s no way to reproduce a real live show. So I think that when you put a great bill together, that people will come out for it. John 5 Read Quote
Nothing’s changed from when I’m seven years old to now. Nothing’s changed at all. I like the same stuff that I did – Kiss, Van Halen, ‘Happy Days,’ ‘Laverne & Shirley,’ ‘The Brady Bunch,’ monsters and all that stuff. John 5 Read Quote
When I was touring with Ozzy, you know, when I was with Manson, we toured with Ozzy, so many times, we did Ozzfest a thousand times, and, you know, it seems like I’m always playing with Ozzy in one way or another opening up. John 5 Read Quote
I love Jimmy Bryant, and I love Albert Lee. Roy Clark. Chet Atkins. I love those pickers. John 5 Read Quote
I love instrumental guitar records, but I also understand that, as a listener, it can be difficult to get through a whole album of just that one thing. John 5 Read Quote
I loved TV, and I watched anything with music – ‘Hee Haw,’ ‘Happy Days,’ anything like that. So I loved the Monkees. John 5 Read Quote
When my parents gave me that first guitar, I became totally obsessed. I would stay in my room all the time with it, and my parents were concerned. John 5 Read Quote
I think there are so, so, so, so many things you have to be… to do this… you know, to keep going in the music business. Of course, you have to play well with others, you know, and you have to be smart with business and be good at your craft and be healthy. John 5 Read Quote
I know it sounds corny, but I think the meaning of life is to do what you love and be happy. John 5 Read Quote
