Dave Mason Quotes (18 Quotes)

Our players were given a week off after Japan. Apart from Andrew Packer who has a back injury, they are all fit.

I never keep them when I make them, so I make a habit of not making them. Once you make them, they're so hard to keep. . . . I used to smoke and used to say, 'OK, that's it,' but 10 minutes later, you're lighting a cigarette.

We'll see how the guitar players of the world take to it

We're happy that we got this little stay of execution, so to speak. It'll give us some time to get all our ducks in a row, to take on whatever they throw at us in the future.

If the record company won't let you put a record out, then you've nothing to promote, and they're not going to help you out with the tour budget if you've nothing to promote. So basically we were kind of trapped. And all the songs we would have written would have been owned by Mercury until they released us. So what do you do It's kind of like a prison sentence. You are at their beck and call a little.

People say we are survivors but I don't see us as survivors of anything. We are still here, there's nothing that's come and tried to dislodge us. We just go about our business.

I really hadn't written anything for nearly 15 years, ... I've been pretty much living alone, and I can take an entire house and make music in it and not bother anybody.

They have to be heard. It is a little hard to talk about music. They're just good songs. It's something you need to hear. It's like trying to describe a painting.

We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.

I won't say extremely prolific, but I try to write stuff that will last a long time.

Looking back in retrospect, there were some great moments working with some great people, ... I don't know quite how to put it into words. I don't look at it quite the same way other people do.

Glasgow is always the best city to play though-I love playing there.

At this stage of the game, we don't know what the process will look like, how to determine medical necessity, or what doctors, or patients or physical therapists will have to do. And there's no guarantee of anything, because there's no appeals process.

It was just a friend and his brother that I work with, they had some design concepts for a guitar about six years ago just as a project really, it started as that. And it developed from there,

Mostly I've just been touring on the road with the band, and most of the time has been taken up with starting a guitar company I have, ... We just finished setting up the factory in Oxnard, Calif..

I have a lot of memories with these people. It was great recording with Hendrix and playing with Stevie Wonder was great. They were all great. It's hard to pick any one of them out. Jimi Hendrix was very meticulous in the studio. He was always way ahead of his time.

We developed the design and the concept to sell, and we were pretty close to selling it to Fender, ... But they leapt back out at the last minute because they had so many other companies they bought, so we just decided, 'I guess we're going to make them ourselves.' So that's what we're doing. They're great guitars, they look beautiful, sound great.

From the get-go, my musical influences come from hip pop, popular stuff. And then I backtracked into the blues, jazz and classical. I always had a pop sensibility. I mean I'm making records to sell em