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" I think that's my goal as time goes on, is to just try and pay it forward. "
Myles Kennedy
Think
Pay
Forward
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" I love playing with Slash, and the chemistry I have with the rest of the guys in his band is fantastic. "
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" Though rock is not the force that it once was in America, it still has a loyal fan base that always seems to continue regardless of what popular culture deems as the 'cool thing.' "
Myles Kennedy
Always
America
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" From the artist's standpoint, are you getting more from streaming than you used to, prior to the days of the Internet? No - and I don't know if those days are ever going to come back - but at least, technically speaking, it's the legal way to do it. "
Myles Kennedy
You
Legal
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" My grandmothers on both sides chose not to go to doctors and passed away. We were entrenched in the Christian Science faith. "
Myles Kennedy
Both Sides
Science
Faith
" Grunge was, to me, the last big movement. It had such an impact on pop culture. We haven't really seen anything like that since, and we may never again. Things have changed; the digital age has changed things. "
Myles Kennedy
Digital
Age
Impact
" I don't feel like I really hit puberty until I was almost 17. I'd go to dinner with my family, and I'm 15 or 16 years old, and the waiter was still giving me the children's menu. "
Myles Kennedy
Family
Children
Dinner
" The journey to the completion of 'Year Of The Tiger' was very interesting and full of a lot of trial and error. "
Myles Kennedy
Journey
Year
Error
" I realized, year of the tiger was 1974, which was the year my father passed away when I was a kid... My family, at that point, were Christian Scientists. So basically, this woman Mary Baker Eddy started this in the 1800s, and the premise is that you don't go to doctors. You believe that God is gonna heal you. "
Myles Kennedy
You
Believe
Family
" 'Apocalyptic Love,' that is pretty from the hip in the sense that, one day, Slash and I were talking - I think it was Slash and I - about the end of the world and the Mayan calendar and all that crazy stuff. "
Myles Kennedy
Day
World
Think
" Vocally, I don't think analogue makes that much difference, but with guitars, it definitely makes some difference. With drums and bass, absolutely. "
Myles Kennedy
Bass
Difference
Some
" I really enjoy the moments with Alter Bridge where I can step out and play lead and have fun. "
Myles Kennedy
Have Fun
Bridge
Step
" Every step, every bit of success, it's gotta be earned. "
Myles Kennedy
Success
Every Step
Earned
" Everything I ever learned about rock, I learned from Led Zeppelin. "
Myles Kennedy
Everything
Led Zeppelin
Learned
" I think I'm most proud of the fact that I was able to overcome the insecurities that were going to keep me from living my dream, which was just learning to turn off those little voices in your head that tell you you're not capable of doing something. "
Myles Kennedy
Me
Dream
Learning
" It's a little nerve-wracking to stand up on stage all by yourself. "
Myles Kennedy
Yourself
Up
Stand Up
" When I was a kid and listening to Zeppelin and Guns N' Roses, if someone had told me that there would come a time, and I would play some of those songs with those people, I would never have believed it. "
Myles Kennedy
Time
Play
People
" I'm basically a happy person. I'm content with my life and my wife and my family. But you do reach a point where you start to question the absolutes that are supposedly out there, and you realize that there simply are no absolutes. "
Myles Kennedy
Life
You
Family
" I wish they had more Tim Horton's here in the States. "
Myles Kennedy
Wish
Here
Had
" A lot of times when I'm performing a song, it tends to take me back to where I was psychologically as the lyric was being written. "
Myles Kennedy
Back
Take
Where
" I think what I've learned to do is not look inward as much. "
Myles Kennedy
Look
I Think
Much
" There's a song called 'Slip To The Void,' which is fairly long and has more of an epic approach. And I guess for lack of a better term some people might throw the progressive tag on it. I don't know if it necessarily falls into that - a few people have brought that up who have heard it. "
Myles Kennedy
Long
Song
People
" I don't even know what progressive is anymore, to be honest! "
Myles Kennedy
Honest
Progressive
Even
" One of the key emotions a lot of people seem to be feeling is disillusionment, and what I try to do as a lyricist is touch on these emotions. "
Myles Kennedy
Lot
People
Key
" I think I've gradually learned to become more of a frontman than I was initially. I mean, when I first started, especially playing with Alter Bridge, you know, I really considered myself more a guitar player who sang. "
Myles Kennedy
Think
Bridge
Guitar
" There's a warmth, obviously, with vinyl that you just don't get with CDs. "
Myles Kennedy
You
Get
CDs
" Because Slash is such a well-known performer all over the world, it definitely helped with the awareness of Alter Bridge. People come up to me and say that they saw me playing with Slash, and it turned them on to the other things I do. "
Myles Kennedy
World
Me
Say
" I'm a really big fan of Andy McKee - I think he's an amazing acoustic guitar player, and he's taken the torch from where Michael Hedges left off. "
Myles Kennedy
Off
Left
Think
" What I did with Slash and the Conspirators was a very different kind of music. Genre-wise, it is a step in a different direction. "
Myles Kennedy
Step
Different
Direction
" I'm in a lower register because I'm not trying to shout out over a wall of amps. Singing lower sounded very pleasing to my ear, and it made it easier for me to emote. "
Myles Kennedy
Trying
Because
Singing
" That's what I love more than anything, just creating. "
Myles Kennedy
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