Creedence Clearwater Revival Quotes

“I couldn’t imagine [the band] coming together and staying together better than this organization,”
Stu Cook

”Creedence Clearwater Revisited’s RECOLLECTION adds a new chapter to that legacy with the vibrant American spirit and exhilarating energy inherent in the songs. “People don’t want to be involved in an endless debate,”
Doug Clifford

And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool. 
John Fogerty 

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other. 
John Fogerty 

I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs. 
John Fogerty 

I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners. 
John Fogerty 

I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power. 
John Fogerty 

I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear. 
John Fogerty 

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack. 
John Fogerty 

I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live. 
John Fogerty 

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine. 
John Fogerty 

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played. 
John Fogerty 

There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar. 
John Fogerty 

You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other. 
John Fogerty