Coy Bowles Quotes

I always looked up to Slash from Guns N' Roses, and I always pictured myself being a rock star and playing the guitar, just going crazy.

Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.

Everything I know, I stole directly from Ace Frehley, Angus Young, and Keith Richards. That's how you learn.

Pearl Jam's 'Alive' is the reason I started to play music.

I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing.

My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.

My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff.

I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.

I always knew I wanted to be in a band.

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll.

I'm a guitar player first. So my first hero was Angus Young from AC/DC. I used to copy every move that he did, play every lick that he would. I knew I wanted to be some kind of a rocker, back in the day.

What we admit to is being a rock n' roll band. From day one, I was a big Chuck Berry fan.

If a little kid picks up Guitar Hero and learns 'Smoke On The Water,' he soon finds out that if he wants the chicks to look at him, he'd better learn it on the guitar!

I probably spent more time as a kid playing air guitar to Jimmy Page than any other guitar player.

I went from wanting to be a Beatle to becoming a 'widdly-widdly' guitar player.

I worked with George Harrison - who was the reason I started playing guitar.

I've been obsessed with music since I was a little girl. I knew I wanted to be a singer when I was 9 years old.

I think it'd be fun to tour with Kiss just because Kiss is the reason I got into playing in a band.

I love the story of the guy coming to Nashville and then kind of getting set down and told, 'This is how the town works,' which, I've totally been there. But the coolest thing about 'Out of Style' is it's a song within a song.