Joe Elliott

It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#big #create #get #go #huge

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#back #fall #go #legacy #love

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#ever #first #had #holiday #i

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#beer #buy #everyone #frustrating #frustrating thing

The Vatican takes your breath away. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#breath #takes #vatican #your

There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#along #came #few #incredibly #making

We used to have our own plane with the band's name on the side. It was a dream come true. You drive to a local airport. There's none of this checking in stuff; you just get on the plane. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#band #checking #come #dream #drive

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#change #cheesy #end #even #go

With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#deal #dump #fake #how #i

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#difficult #easy #good #quite #song