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All Quotes by author - Richie Sambora
" A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really. "
Relationship
Yourself
You
" As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too. "
Guitar
I Can
Listening
" At the end of the day, if you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing. "
End
Want
Buy
" Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the world like Athens and Croatia, which were quite cool. I'm a sightseer. I go see the sights and museums. I'm into that kind of thing. "
Cool
America
Kind
" Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you. "
Know
Grief
Losing
" I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do. "
Nobility
Always
Desire
" I didn't check into rehab. Instead of me heading into a place - I was just drinking too much and I needed to get my life together. I'm still in therapy and stuff like that, but it's good. I'm great. I feel fine. "
Life
My Life
Together
" I just want to thank everyone for their support. Sometimes friends need the help of their friends to get by. "
Support
Sometimes
Need
" I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones. "
Know
Without
Tour
" I love being a dad. I'd have more kids if I could. I'd take a couple more, one or two more before I croak. "
Take
Kids
Love
" I'm a homebody, really, when it comes down to it. "
Down
Really
Homebody
" I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business. "
People
Business
Down
" I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do. "
Guy
Take For Granted
Minute
" I might have been a psychologist. It interests me. "
Been
Me
Interests
" I'm on a search for my future ex-wife. "
Future
Search
Ex-Wife
" I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes. "
Mistakes
Myself
Play
" I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off. "
Off
Song
Look
" I've had a very, very interesting view of the planet over the last 30 years, touring as excessively as I have. And music is the most evocative, transformative, connective force in humanity, man. "
Music
View
Humanity
" I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy. "
Family
Happy
Day
" I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we're humans and not some kind of bird. "
People
Impossible
Grow
" I was the lead singer in a lot of the bands I was in. You have to be comfortable. You gotta get up there and sell the song. You have to get up there and sell the lyric. You gotta be able to feel it. "
Singer
Song
You
" I will do anything for anybody that asks me to do anything for a kid. "
Will
Me
Anything
" Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it. "
Think
Own
Learning
" Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going. "
Roll
Rock
People
" Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates. "
Process
Songwriting
Healthy
" Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think. "
Song
First
You
" Stand on the stage in front of 15 people or 15,000. Have them look up to you and tell you how wonderful you are, and if you don't think that's a great feeling, okay, then you're unlike me. "
Stand
Great
Look
" That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter and man, you wouldn't believe the intensity in that crowd. Can I just talk for a minute about how amazingly hot Heather is? "
City
Winter
Thinking
" The early Bon Jovi stuff I can't stand. I just think we didn't have our stylistic voice. But some people love some of that stuff. "
Love
Voice
Early
" The Garden State will never leave me. "
Never
Me
Leave
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