Quotes By Johnny Rivers
What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.
Johnny Rivers
One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.
Johnny Rivers
After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because it was so inexpensive.
Johnny Rivers
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.
Johnny Rivers
I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.
Johnny Rivers
Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around.
Johnny Rivers
I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.
Johnny Rivers
About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.
Johnny Rivers
I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it.
Johnny Rivers
Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.
Johnny Rivers
In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made.
Johnny Rivers
Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.
Johnny Rivers
I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.
Johnny Rivers