Quotes from John Fogerty

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

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

Born On The Bayou

Someday, you'll understand.

Kids don't quite get what the consequences are until the consequences are due.

great drummer, you've got more than 50 percent of it right there. It's like the frame of a house. Kenny keeps really good time—at times it's perfect time. But his style, his feel—he's a little bit ahead, yet the hi-hat is right on the money. That feel is what I love. It's got kind of a lean to it, and that's what rock and roll is.

Being a teenager has to be the toughest time for almost everyone. Especially if there's anything you perceive as wrong in your world. I felt put-upon, unworthy. Behind the eight ball. Divorce was an immense failure to me.

Rocky Top" that

Disco sure did suck.

If I were a politician, I could prove that monkeys talk.

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

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.

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

I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear.

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

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

There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.

I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs.

Let the people know my wisdom, fill the land with smoke

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