Tony Wilson Quotes

I don't really go out to clubs, but if I did, I'd just want to go rock out with my mates or whatever.

We've played every dirty rock-and-roll club in America, and we've been opening acts for everyone.

I was in a band called Episode Six with Roger Glover, which was more of a harmony band, really. At one gig, there were a few dodgy characters leaning up against the wall of the venue - and we ended up joining their band. Purple was the talk of every musician in the country - they had something new and very exciting.

Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

I was a big fan of X. I've probably seen 100 X shows during their time in the late '70s and early '80s.

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.

I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

New York City has more rock history in its 305 square miles than most of America combined.

I was a hard rocker when I was in high school.

What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in.

For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16, and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that.

I still go out, but not a lot. If I go to see music, it's usually to the Blue Note, jazz clubs, things like that. When I travel, I find out where the jazz clubs are.

It was the glitter days, and the New York Dolls and Kiss would come play at the Coventry, all those bands would come in from Manhattan.

We always go out looking for live music after our shows.

Warped Tour is completely in a league of its own. It's this crazy cross between a real, full tour and a festival.

This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that's willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.

I got to play The Vortex in London with the Buzzcocks, the Fall, me and Johnny Thunders And The Heartbreakers. That was a serious Manchester night.

Cheap Trick has played with every band on the planet.

I used to play in biker bars, different places like that.

We got our first significant pieces of press in the 'New York Rocker' from early gigs at CBGB.