Top 27 Quotes by John Fogerty

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.