Rick Allen Quotes

• If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they’d come to visit more and I’d get to spend more time here. But I’m laying down roots in America so when I’m there, just being at home, it’s harder to break away from that.

  Rick Allen

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• America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it’s a strange situation as I feel almost like I’m in no-man’s land some of the time, because although I’m a resident, I still can’t vote so I don’t really have a say in what goes on where I live.

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  Tags in Live, Home, Feel

• But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.

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• At the end of the day, they’re happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you’ve got to try and make yourself happy by doing certain songs at the front end of the set.

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  Tags in Day, Happy, Yourself

• But the irony is that because the band isn’t the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.

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  Tags in Focus, Enjoy, Chance

• But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.

  Rick Allen

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  Tags in Back, Drive, Drum

• But it’s funny that now I’m in such a happy situation, I look more objectively at my own past and see what others have seen for a long time and I’m just so glad I’ve been able to get to this point.

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  Tags in Happy, past, Long

• Before my accident I was a little too… selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I’m blessed. I’m really blessed.

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• And more importantly, I wouldn’t be the person I am today, I wouldn’t be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn’t for the accident.

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  Tags in Today, Person

• ‘Cause I felt I didn’t have anything else to prove as a musician… and boy was I wrong about that one.

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  Tags in Anything, Wrong

• Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or s*x or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.

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  Tags in Sex, Focus, Become

• I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn’t want to revisit that place again.

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  Tags in Place, Again, Side

• I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just the guys in the band.

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• I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I’ve never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment.

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  Tags in Happy, Myself, Different

• I really don’t feel any strong allegiance to any country.

  Rick Allen

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Feel

• I think at that time I obviously wasn’t aware of what I really needed. But conversely, my wanting to prove something to everyone was beneficial ’cause if I hadn’t done it then, maybe I’d never have done it.

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  Tags in Done, Everyone

• I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.

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• I have never been one for the over-the-top.

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• Just the same way I’d say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.

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• My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn’t have survived the crash.

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  Tags in Rights, Situation, Worse

Rick Allen (25)

Birth:	1st November, 1963
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Musician

About

Richard John Cyril "Rick" Allen is the drummer for the English hard rock band Def Leppard. He is famous for overcoming the complete amputation of his left arm and continuing to play with the band, which subsequently went on to its greatest popular success worldwide. His fans now call him the "Thunder God".

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