Rick Allen Quotes

• Yes, of course that’s true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I’d pretty much lost interest in playing drums.

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• We’re probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album.

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• Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy.

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• Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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• I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.

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

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• 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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• 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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• ‘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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• 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.

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• 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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• 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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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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