Gary Cherone Quotes

If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the '80s - early '80s, you know what I mean? That's a long time ago.

Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.

I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime.

Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.

You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

I'm also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.

It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

Greg Ginn was certainly a huge influence on my guitar playing. I put him up there with people like Eddie Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen changed everything; I don't necessarily like everything he did, but he definitely changed everything.

I got into rock music at thirteen, listening to Van Halen, learned how to play the electric guitar.

I always dreamed of playing a show with Bono and Edge and the guys in Green Day.

If I wasn't in the band, I'm a Zombie fan, and I'm a White Zombie fan.

I'm a veteran of Ozzfest.

As a rock band, you're slightly one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums.

I was part of a metal and rock band, and I performed in front of 3000 to 4000 people for many years. I was the loudest mouth up there on stage. We would be screaming, head-banging and mass venting. We would all vent our feelings together, which is ideal as compared to participating in political and social forums, and I never felt any restrictions.

Sure I've done some runs and even toured some amazing places around the world, but this is Stone Temple Pilots!

I can't possibly overstate how much influence Rush had on me as a young teenager. I would say from about 1981 to 1987, they were my gods.

I loved Van Halen; I loved everything we did.

I wanted to be Paul Stanley or Gene Simmons.

I was really into metal when I was growing up. It was just something I thought I could do and wanted to try.

I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!

I can sing these tunes the rest of my life, but when you get the four of us together, it's magical onstage. That's Motley Crüe.

My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.

Obviously, the big hits like 'Shout,' 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World,' 'Head Over Heels,' we play live, so there's nothing new about them to me.

I'm actually much more of a rock player than many people think.