Joe Perry Band Quotations

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.

Whenever I hear somebody cover a song, I don't like to hear it stray too far from the original. I like to hear some of the new energy that a band will put into it, but you kind of want to hear some of the basic parts of the song. I mean, that's what makes it the song that you like.

Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive.

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.