Kip Winger Quotes

• We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.

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• We tune down a full step when we play but I never miss a note. I’ve learned how to keep my voice.

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• To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.

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• Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

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• The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.

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• The main thing is that I’ve been studying composition for the last four years. I’d say it’s the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

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• Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

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• It’s like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses… when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone’s going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.

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• It’s a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first – I don’t have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music.

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• In general, I don’t feel artists should need producers.

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• I’ve studied voice from a few different people for years.

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• I’m not financially insecure anymore either so I don’t have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.

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• I’m a child of the 70’s; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.

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• I’d like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

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• I wouldn’t do just a tour, it would have to be an album, and the album would have to beat Pull.

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• I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it’s a great frequency and it’s great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

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• I was just going more for what I’ve always been influenced by, European music.

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• I think it’s important to know your limitations too.

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• I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

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•  I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn’t work like that.

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Kip Winger (24)

Birth:	21st June, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Singer

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