Joe Elliott Quotes

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

  Joe Elliott

  Song, Writing, Easy

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• Just follow your gut. If you seriously believe that something is the right thing to do, if you are so convinced that your stomach is knotting up every time someone suggests an alternative way of doing all this, take a deep breath and just say, "You're wrong."

  Joe Elliott

  Believe, Alternatives, Way

  "Interview with Joe Elliott of Def Leppard on Music, Humor, and Contributing to the Arts". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As much as I am a huge soccer fan, music just kills it when it comes to importance. I could go to a desert island without a football and survive happily, but if I had to go without music, I think I'd end up killing myself. It fuels my soul. It always has.

  Joe Elliott

  Soccer, Football, Thinking

  "Interview with Joe Elliott of Def Leppard on Music, Humor, and Contributing to the Arts". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You don't just go with a majority because it's the majority. You go with it because it's right. If it feels right, do it. As long as it's legal.

  Joe Elliott

  Long, Majority, Feels Right

  "Interview with Joe Elliott of Def Leppard on Music, Humor, and Contributing to the Arts". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We just wanted to put a smile on people's faces. That's all we ever wanted to do.

  Joe Elliott

  People, Faces, Wanted

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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.

  Joe Elliott

  Beer, Play, Musician

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• Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

  Joe Elliott

  People, Ledges, Way

  "Interview with Joe Elliott of Def Leppard on Music, Humor, and Contributing to the Arts". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you don't physically age gracefully, it's a bit sad. I think Steven Tyler can get away anything, because he still looks like he did in '73. Especially from row Z backwards in an arena. As long as the Stones keep their hair and don't get fat they'll get away with the wrinkles.

  Joe Elliott

  Thinking, Wrinkles, Hair

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• If you're driving, don't forget your car.

  Joe Elliott

  Car, Driving, Forget You

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• You see mock death in movies every day, but when it really happens, you're not used to it. Most things in life, you get better the more that you do them, but this is one of those things you don't really want to get any better at.

  Joe Elliott

  Things In Life, Get Better, Want

  "Interview with Joe Elliott of Def Leppard on Music, Humor, and Contributing to the Arts". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  Joe Elliott

  Writing, Responsibility, Handle

  "Joe Elliott of Def Leppard". Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2011.

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

  Joe Elliott

  Song, Together, Bangs

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

  Joe Elliott

  Song, Writing, Rocks

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

  Joe Elliott

  Different, Get Up, Stage

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• Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.

  Joe Elliott

  Soccer, Passion, Two

  "Interview with Joe Elliott of Def Leppard on Music, Humor, and Contributing to the Arts". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

  Joe Elliott

  Song, Horse, Crazy

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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.

  Joe Elliott

  Years, Europe, Cities

  "How to travel like a rock star". Interview with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com. January 23, 2008.

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

  Joe Elliott

  Song, Rocks, Rock Song

  "Joe Elliott of Def Leppard" by Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2011.

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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.

  Joe Elliott

  Dream, Airports, Names

  "Me and my travels". Interview with Jon Bennett, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

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

  Joe Elliott

  Years, Mind Blowing, Three

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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.

  Joe Elliott

  Song, Fall, Years

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

  Joe Elliott

  Country, Rocks, England

  "Joe Elliott of Def Leppard" by Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2011.

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• The Vatican takes your breath away.

  Joe Elliott

  Breaths

  "How to travel like a rock star". "Celebrity travel" with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com.

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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.

  Joe Elliott

  Hate, Thinking, Fake

  "How to travel like a rock star". Interview with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com. January 23, 2008.

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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.

  Joe Elliott

  Views, Giving, Four Seasons

  "Me and my travels". Interview with Jon Bennett, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

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