Rick Nielsen Quotes

#1. If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

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#2. When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.

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#3. Everything works if you let it

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#4. I'm in a band. I have the basic idea, but when you surround yourself with really good players, why would I tell anyone what to play, because they're that good. They don't tell me what to play. They might encourage me, so that's what I do. I encourage them.

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#5. The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.

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#6. I'm a reactor. I can react to crowds, performing situations.

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#7. I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

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#8. Surrender, but don't give yourself away

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#9. I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.

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#10. Every person I've ever met always thinks their parents are weird.

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#11. When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.

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#12. I actually did my research and tried to get kind of like a working visa for Australia. It always seemed like it was a land of opportunities. The same size as the United States with one-tenth of the population.

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#13. I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.

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#14. If I weren't in the band, I would be a fan.

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#15. I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs I wrote.

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#16. Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear ... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.

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#17. Madison Square Garden sounds like crap.

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#18. I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.

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