You’ve got to work hard and have luck. Luck only enters in if you do work hard. Rick Nielsen Read Quote
We tried to act trendy. We took one of our songs and tried to make a dance mix. They put it on the turntables, unannounced, in Los Angeles and New York the same weekend, where they had a big dance crowd going wild. It cleared the floor on both coasts. Rick Nielsen Read Quote
There’s no way we could make up what we are. The group is just what everyone is. Each of us has a different audience. Rick Nielsen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Hendrix was a different kind of guitar player. It was like, ‘Holy cow, this guy can sing, he can play all this weird stuff… what is this?’ It was a new kind of music. Rick Nielsen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Every other year, I spend Thanksgiving in England with Dave Clark from the Dave Clark Five and a bunch of other people. Rick Nielsen Read Quote
