Neal Schon Quotes

#1. When I go out with Journey, it is a complete cakewalk. I can afford my own bus.

Neal Schon

#2. During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it.

Neal Schon

#3. Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.

Neal Schon

#4. We are taking close to $10 a CD the way we are doing it, and I think that is a fair amount to split up between five guys. Each of us makes like two bucks a record.

Neal Schon

#5. I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.

Neal Schon

#6. If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing ... it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly.

Joseph Campbell

#7. The nature of God can never and nowhere be deficient in anything, while things made out of nothing can be deficient.

Augustine Of Hippo

#8. Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco

#9. That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us.

Benny Goodman

#10. Nobody's perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them.

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#11. I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.

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#12. I keep on calling them records because they will always be records to me.

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#13. There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more.

Neal Schon

#14. I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.

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#15. The only thing I use the Rolling Stone for is toilet paper when I run out.

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#16. In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.

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#17. I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.

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#18. The world now knows that Steve Perry is welcome to come and sing with us anytime he wants.

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#19. What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end.

Neal Schon

#20. I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.

Thomas Carlyle

#21. I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

Neal Schon

#22. We are doing what Prince did. Everyone that comes to a show billed as An Evening with Journey will get our new CD. We figured that is our best store because they are our biggest fans.

Neal Schon

#23. I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.

Neal Schon

#24. I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How good to be in a body - even this old beat-up carcass - that still has warm blood and live semen and rich marrow and wholesome flesh!

Christopher Isherwood

#25. A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

Charles Dickens

#26. The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

Neal Schon

#27. She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.

James Purdy

#28. I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

Neal Schon

#29. I'm just getting older and better.

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#30. Let the ones who seek justice be just.

Rachel Hartman

#31. Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

Seneca The Younger

#32. World Play is very '70s arena rock, very raw and in your face, and that's what we wanted. We recorded it in a very off-the-cuff manner and didn't really plan out how we were going to play. My solos are first takes.

Neal Schon

#33. The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

Neal Schon

#34. You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it.

Neal Schon

#35. I pressed my head into the pillow and I screamed.
Pure sound. No words. But it all came out as your name.

David Levithan

#36. Hell? Hell is a fairy tale for the gullible, for what punishment could be worse than that we inflict upon ourselves? We burn so badly in this life that there can be nothing left.

Erika Johansen

#37. Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.

Kabir