Tommy Bolin Quotes
Top 32 wise famous quotes and sayings by Tommy Bolin
Tommy Bolin Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I can't see. I used to wear glasses off stage. Now I'm thinking of getting a pair of contract lenses.
When I'm with Purple, I'm totally with Purple; when I'm doing my thing, I'm totally doing my own thing.
When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair.
For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs.
I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.
I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.
A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.
Once I was playing and moving around and I fell right on my back. Just straight on my back. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life.
I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.
You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.
All the different styles I've played have really helped me as a guitarist and helped me develop my own way of playing.
I learned a lot about lead; you don't have to blow your cookies in the first bar. It is much harder to be simple that to be complicated during solos.
When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.
Lots of times it really doesn't matter what notes you play, but what notes come before and after a run.
When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.
I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.
I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.