Richie Sambora Quotes

• Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

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• Being in America isn’t old-hat – it’s where we’re from – but I get excited to be in other parts of the world like Athens and Croatia, which were quite cool. I’m a sightseer. I go see the sights and museums. I’m into that kind of thing.

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  Tags in Kind, Quite

• I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we’re humans and not some kind of bird.

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• I just want to thank everyone for their support. Sometimes friends need the help of their friends to get by.

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  Tags in Help, Need, Friends

• I’m a lucky guy. I don’t take for granted, for one minute, what I do.

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  Tags in Guy, Granted, Lucky

• Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him – that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that’s going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn’t prepare you.

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  Tags in Mind, Feel

• I didn’t check into rehab. Instead of me heading into a place – I was just drinking too much and I needed to get my life together. I’m still in therapy and stuff like that, but it’s good. I’m great. I feel fine.

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  Tags in Feel, Together

• I love being a dad. I’d have more kids if I could. I’d take a couple more, one or two more before I croak.

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  Tags in Before, Kids

• I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

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• I’ve spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I’m happy.

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  Tags in Day, Happy

• Learning about all those different things psychologically – about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.

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  Tags in Different, Trying

• Stand on the stage in front of 15 people or 15,000. Have them look up to you and tell you how wonderful you are, and if you don’t think that’s a great feeling, okay, then you’re unlike me.

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  Tags in Feeling, Look, Tell

• I’m on a search for my future ex-wife.

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• I’m all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it’s breaking down the whole business.

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  Tags in Music, Nothing

• There are a lot of really good guitar sounds and new kind atmospheres on the new Bon Jovi record. I think people are going to dig it, man. And it rocks hard.

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  Tags in Hard, Kind

• That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter and man, you wouldn’t believe the intensity in that crowd. Can I just talk for a minute about how amazingly hot Heather is?

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  Tags in Thinking, past, Believe

• There’s nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that’s the truth.

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  Tags in Nothing

• You know, when you’re an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you’re a musician, you want to go to Nashville.

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  Tags in Actor, Hollywood, Musician

• We’ve been around for almost three decades now – there’s about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.

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  Tags in Around, Almost

• You know, no matter what I am or what I do for a living, I’m still, you know, the husband and the dad and the protector of the house, and I have to be conscientious about that.

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  Tags in Husband, Living

Richie Sambora (20)

Birth:	11th July, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Producer, Singer

About

Richard Stephen "Richie" Sambora is an American rock guitarist, producer, musician, singer, and songwriter who is the longtime lead guitarist of the rock band Bon Jovi. He and frontman Jon Bon Jovi form the primary songwriting unit of the band. He has also released three solo albums: Stranger in This Town in 1991, Undiscovered Soul in 1998, and his third, Aftermath of the Lowdown was released in September 2012.

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