Top 24 Quotes & Sayings by Neal Schon

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Neal Schon.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Neal George Joseph Schon is an American rock guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist, best known for his work with the bands Journey and Bad English. He was a member of the rock band Santana before forming Journey, and was also an original member of Hardline.

American - Musician | Born: February 27, 1954

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I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.

Neal Schon

I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.

Neal Schon

In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.

Neal Schon

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

Neal Schon

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

Neal Schon

I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.

Neal Schon

When I go out with Journey, it is a complete cakewalk. I can afford my own bus.

Neal Schon

I keep on calling them records because they will always be records to me.

Neal Schon

I'm just getting older and better.

Neal Schon

We are doing what Prince did. Everyone that comes to a show billed as An Evening with Journey will get our new CD. We figured that is our best store because they are our biggest fans.

Neal Schon

The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

Neal Schon

Nobody's perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them.

Neal Schon

I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.

Neal Schon

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

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Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.

Neal Schon

World Play is very '70s arena rock, very raw and in your face, and that's what we wanted. We recorded it in a very off-the-cuff manner and didn't really plan out how we were going to play. My solos are first takes.

Neal Schon

The world now knows that Steve Perry is welcome to come and sing with us anytime he wants.

Neal Schon

During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it.

Neal Schon

You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it.

Neal Schon

What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end.

Neal Schon

There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more.

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We are taking close to $10 a CD the way we are doing it, and I think that is a fair amount to split up between five guys. Each of us makes like two bucks a record.

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I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.

Neal Schon

The only thing I use the Rolling Stone for is toilet paper when I run out.

Neal Schon