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My parents were opera singers. I didn't want to play opera because I wasn't good enough. I didn't want to play their music; I wanted to play the music that I wanted to play, and I'm so lucky that today I get to play that music, even though I don't like every song I write.
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We're Cheap Trick, and the majority of people know about three songs, and the real huge fans know about eight. There are 292 songs people have never heard.
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I didn't want to be one of the Beach Boys or one of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band. I mean, we appreciated that music. But I didn't want to grow a beard to look like Roy Wood just because I liked him.
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I started out as a drummer, and when I was 9, my drum teacher had an album out. He was the rudiment king! He signed it for me, 'Rudimentally yours, Frank Arsenault.' How cool is that?
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I feel like such an idiot... you know, that our band didn't break up just so we can re-form and become more and more popular.
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Whenever we tell the truth, nobody believes us. We lie, and people take it as etched-in-stone fact.
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People say, 'Oh, Rick, he's crazy.' Well, I'm crazy, and I'm not crazy... When I went to my high school reunion, I was the only one there doing what he said he was going to do. How crazy is that?
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I don't always feel like a million dollars, but I try not to let anybody know.
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I'd rather be known as a songwriter than a guitarist, although I love to play the guitar.
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No one knows this, but when I would play the clubs back in '65, '66, they used to call me 'Screaming Chicken,' 'cause I would go out and scream, fall on the ground, beat myself, smash stuff, jump through the ceiling, roll on the floor, and act like I was having epileptic fits.
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There's no way we could make up what we are. The group is just what everyone is. Each of us has a different audience.
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We tried to act trendy. We took one of our songs and tried to make a dance mix. They put it on the turntables, unannounced, in Los Angeles and New York the same weekend, where they had a big dance crowd going wild. It cleared the floor on both coasts.
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We may not be proud of every song we've ever done - or been forced to do - but I believe we've done more than meets the eye.
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We're a band's band. We have real songs, real players, real problems. Real ups, real downs.
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I have four warehouses full of stuff. I have every boarding pass of every flight I've ever been on. I have all the old contracts that we had from all the clubs and concerts we played, every one of them, up from 1980. Guitar picks and amps - it goes on and on.
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It's an honor that people give a crap about us. We're in a rock band; we're not supposed to be treated with any respect.
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People are like, 'Why are you playing that five-neck guitar?' I want to hurt. I want to play.
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I've taken all the mirrors out of my house because when I'm playing onstage, I feel like I'm still in high school. I feel like that kid that wanted to play in his first band, and then I look in a mirror, and it's like, 'Uh-oh!' It ain't pretty.
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We played with AC/DC. There are actual recordings of us doing 'Johnny B Good' together.
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Our band is rock n' roll. We were never just a studio band trying to make everything perfect. It was never supposed to be perfect. It was supposed to be cool.
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I can't stand it when groups come back for an encore, and they play some slow thing. Oh, brother! It's like, 'Had I known that, I would've left.'
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I was never going to be very cute. I always looked for the best people to play with and, 'cause, to make myself look better.
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The Ramones were American, and I knew about them, and I thought they were interesting. But they were like a pop band to me.
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The Sex Pistols had it all - they had the snarl, they had the I-don't-give-a-crap attitude - plus, they could play.
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I think I've probably had one of my guitars on display at every Hard Rock Cafe in the world.
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My parents were both opera singers, and they also were both heavily into religious and church music.
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I always use my Les Paul. I have a Hamer as well. I use a Tele and an Esquire - once in a while, I will use a Strat, and I never use any pedals... except for in my car.
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We always record with the whole band. That's key to capturing the feel, especially trying to get a good basic track.
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