Joe Elliott Quotes

• Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

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• With Los Angeles, it’s kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it’s marvelous, and sometimes I think it’s a dump. It’s so fake and I can’t deal with how fake it is.

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• We used to have our own plane with the band’s name on the side. It was a dream come true. You drive to a local airport. There’s none of this checking in stuff; you just get on the plane.

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• To be honest, I’m a bit of a snob now; give me a Four Seasons anywhere in the world and I’m happy. Also, they’ve just opened a Ritz-Carlton in County Wicklow, Ireland, which is stunning and has great views.

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• There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the ’80s came along.

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• The Vatican takes your breath away.

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• The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

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• The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

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• That’s why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play ‘Satisfaction.’ The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

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• Manhattan’s always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it’s just got a vibe that’s hard to beat. I shouldn’t like it, but I do. I can’t put my finger on it.

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• In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

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• If you can’t handle the responsibility of a hit single, don’t write one.

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• I’ve always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

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• I wanted to write a song that’s known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

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• I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

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• I don’t really feel any different when I get up on stage.

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• I love the fact we’re still on the road. I was born to be a factory worker really, so for me the chance to get on stage at Wembley 30 years after we started is amazing.

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• Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.

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• Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it’s probably going to be rubbish.

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• A fan would get an autograph and that was that. If we didn’t tour again for five years, we wouldn’t remember them.

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Joe Elliott (24)

Birth:	1st August, 1959
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Lyricist, Musician, Singer

About

Joseph Thomas Elliott Jr. was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. He is an English singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer of the English rock band Def Leppard. He is one of the two original members of Def Leppard and one of the three to perform on every Def Leppard album. As a songwriter, he has drawn from his eclectic tastes in music as sources of inspiration. He also plays guitar and drums as well as piano and electronic keyboard. He currently hosts a radio show on Planet Rock radio on Saturday nights. His albums list (with Def Leppard) shown below: On Through the Night, High 'n' Dry, Pyromania, Hysteria, Adrenalize, Slang, Euphoria, X, Songs from the Sparkle Lounge, and Def Leppard.

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