Quotes by John Fogerty

John Fogerty

All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River…And singers like Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing by the river.

People

Rivers

Water

All these different groups of people that are put right in the path of billions of dollars of American tax payers’ money. If I had enough time I could have named all of those people [in the song], too! The song would have been 400 minutes long.

Long

People

Song

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

Thinking

Way

As a songwriter, I try not to be sloppy; same with the music. You can be very lean, very efficient, so you’re not wasting a lot of time getting’ to the point. You’re saying it with as pure a word or phrase as you can. That’s the part that was craft. You refine and refine and refine. Maybe that’s why the songs still hang on, because they’re very pure. For one thing, they’re very short. “Bad Moon Rising” is like 2 minutes and 12 seconds. I would try to do everything as quickly and with as little extra as possible. It was a challenge.

Moon

Song

Writing

Big train from Memphis, now it’s gone gone gone, gone gone gone. Like no one before, he let out a roar, and I just had to tag along.

Gone

Memphis

Tag

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

Beautiful

Simple

Thinking

Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man’s big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.

Dog

Heart

Men

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

Made

Music Is

Musician

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn’t think I could carry his shoes back then.

Idols

Shoes

Thinking

For years I walked around with the phrase “Green River” because I had seen that on a soda fountain drink when I was probably 8 or 9 years old, and I went, ‘Gee, I like that.’ Another one was “Lodi”, which I thought sounded really cool. I got this cheap little empty plastic notebook at my local drugstore, and bought a little slab of filler paper and the very first title I wrote in it was “Proud Mary”. I had no idea what that title meant.

Ideas

Notebook

Years

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Block

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Coming Back

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Done

Elements

Energetic

Equipment

Errors

Evil

Evil Women

Eye

Four

Fun

Giving

Gone

Good Man

Greed

Guitar

Guy

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Hard Work

Heart

Hockey

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Quotes by John Fogerty

John Fogerty

All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River…And singers like Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing by the river.

All these different groups of people that are put right in the path of billions of dollars of American tax payers’ money. If I had enough time I could have named all of those people [in the song], too! The song would have been 400 minutes long.

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

Big train from Memphis, now it’s gone gone gone, gone gone gone. Like no one before, he let out a roar, and I just had to tag along.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man’s big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.

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

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn’t think I could carry his shoes back then.

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